History of West Brookfield, Massachusetts, USA

Journey back in time to West Brookfield, Massachusetts, USA

• 1664 - West Brookfield is settled
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
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  Ye Olde Tavern, 1760
  
  "Ye Olde Tavern, built at West Brookfield in 1760, was a center of colonial life in Massachusetts. Here many men and lovely ladies of olden times were entertained, for the Tavern was located on the Olde Bay Path over which... Read MORE...
  
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• 1848 - West Brookfield is incorporated
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
• 1854 - West Brookfield
  West Brookfield, a post-township of Worcester co., Mass., on the Western railroad, 69 miles W. by S. from Boston. Pop., 1314.
  A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States: Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy ... Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) Joseph Thomas January 1, 1854 Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company 1854.
  
  
• 1890 West Brookfield Massachusetts
  West Brookfield is a picturesque and beautiful farming and manufacturing town lying in the southwestern part of Worcester County, 69 miles west of Bos...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1895 - West Brookfield
  West Brook'field, a post-village in West Brookfield township, Worcester co., Mass., on the Boston & Albany Railroad, 69 miles W. by S. of Boston, and ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  The First Printing Office of the Merriman's, Publishers of Webster's Dictionary, West Brookfield, Mass.
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• 1906
  West Brookfield, a post-village in West Brookfield township (town), Worcester CO., Mass., on the Boston and Albany R., 29 miles ENE. of Springfield. I...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1907 - 1 DEAD, 5 INJURED IN WRECK. Passenger Express and Freight Trains in Head-On Collision
  WEST BROOKFIELD, Mass., Nov. 9. - The Southwestern Express, No. 46, on the Boston & Albany Division of the New York Central Railroad, bound for Boston...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Lake Wickaboag
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