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Clinton, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Clinton includes: Acre, Burditt Hill, California, Fullerville, Germantown, and New Jerusalem.
Clinton was first settled in 1654 as a part of Lancaster. It was officially incorporated as a separate town on March 14, 1850, and named after the DeWitt Clinton Hotel in New York, a favorite place of the town's founders, Erastus Brigham Bigelow and his brother Horatio.
Clinton became an industrialized mill town, using the Nashua River as a source for water power. In 1897, construction began on the Wachusett Dam, culminating in the filling of the Wachusett Reservoir in 1908. This flooded a substantial portion of Clinton and neighboring towns, which had to be relocated.
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- Clinton was first settled in 1654 as a part of Lancaster.
Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates - March 14, 1850 - Clinton is incorporated
Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates - 1854 - Clinton
Clinton, a flourishing manufacturing post-village of Worcester county, Massachusetts, in a township of its own name, on the Nashua river, which...Read MORE... 
1886 - Gingham was first manufactured in the United States by Erastus Bigelow, at Clinton, Mass., in 1846.
It was the first attempt to manufacture the fabric mentioned by machinery, and enabled the American manufacturers to compete successfully with those...Read MORE...- 1888 - Owing to lack of orders the Bigelow carpet mills at Clinton, Mass., shut down on the 3d, rendering thirteen hundred hands idle.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
July 7, 1888 - Clinton Massachusetts, 1890
Clinton is one of the younger towns, remarkable for its carpetings and woven wire. It is situated in the easterly part of Worcester County, about 35...Read MORE... - 1895 - Clinton
Clinton, a post-town of Worcester co, Mass., on the Nashua River, and on the Boston & Maine Railroad where it crosses the Old Colony Railroad, 17...Read MORE... - 1896 - Dynamite Exploded in Water-Works Aqueduct at Clinton
FOUR MEN KILLED, ONE BADLY HURT.
Dynamite Exploded in Water-Works Aquaduct at Clinton.
Four men were killed and one was fatally injured by an...Read MORE... 
Clinton Hospital
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Clinton, Mass. - Mass. Central R.R. Trestle and Wachusett Reservoir
Postcard- 1907 - CLINTON'S TOWN HALL DESTROYED BY FIRE.
LOSS OF $100,000 - PROBABLY DUE TO CIGARETTE STUB LEFT BY SOMEONE AFTER HIGH SCHOOL DANCE - TOWN RECORDS SAFE, AND NO OTHER BUILDINGS...Read MORE... 
Holder Memorial
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Clinton, a banking post-township (town) of Worcester co., Mass., on the Nashua River and on the Boston and Maine and the New York, New Haven and...Read MORE...
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Clinton Hospital
Clinton, Massachusetts, USA
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Clinton, Mass. - Mass. Central R.R. Trestle and Wachusett Reservoir
Clinton, Massachusetts, USA
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Holder Memorial
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Clinton was first settled in 1654 as a part of Lancaster.
Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
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March 14, 1850 - Clinton is incorporated
Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
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1854 - Clinton
Clinton, a flourishing manufacturing post-village of Worcester county, Massachusetts, in a township of its own name, on the Nashua river, which... Read MORE...
1886 - Gingham was first manufactured in the United States by Erastus Bigelow, at Clinton, Mass., in 1846.
It was the first attempt to manufacture the fabric mentioned by machinery, and enabled the American manufacturers to compete successfully with those... Read MORE...
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1888 - Owing to lack of orders the Bigelow carpet mills at Clinton, Mass., shut down on the 3d, rendering thirteen hundred hands idle.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
July 7, 1888
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Clinton Massachusetts, 1890
Clinton is one of the younger towns, remarkable for its carpetings and woven wire. It is situated in the easterly part of Worcester County, about 35... Read MORE...
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1895 - Clinton
Clinton, a post-town of Worcester co, Mass., on the Nashua River, and on the Boston & Maine Railroad where it crosses the Old Colony Railroad, 17... Read MORE...
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1896 - Dynamite Exploded in Water-Works Aqueduct at Clinton
FOUR MEN KILLED, ONE BADLY HURT.
Dynamite Exploded in Water-Works Aquaduct at Clinton.
Four men were killed and one was fatally injured by an... Read MORE...
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1907 - CLINTON'S TOWN HALL DESTROYED BY FIRE.
LOSS OF $100,000 - PROBABLY DUE TO CIGARETTE STUB LEFT BY SOMEONE AFTER HIGH SCHOOL DANCE - TOWN RECORDS SAFE, AND NO OTHER BUILDINGS... Read MORE...
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1916
Clinton, a banking post-township (town) of Worcester co., Mass., on the Nashua River and on the Boston and Maine and the New York, New Haven and... Read MORE...
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