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 UXBRIDGE (Town Hall) - Uxbridge MA Posted by:  nomadwillie
N 42° 04.524 W 071° 37.725
19T E 282542 N 4661492
Home sweet home. This is the town I live in. Supposedly, "a prominent center in the American Industrial Revolution" (wikipedia). We do have a ton of 19th century cloth mills in this town, with earliest one dating around 1821.
Waymark Code: WM142M9
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 04/02/2021
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UXBRIDGE, 18.5 m. (town, alt. 259, pop. 6397, sett. 1662, incorp. 1727), called Wacantuck by the Indians, was another town of the Nipmuck Praying Indians. Agriculture was the main occupation of the first settlers until the abundant water-power led to the erection first of several small industrial plants and later of textile factories. The mills are locally owned and Uxbridge has had no serious industrial retrogression.
American-Guide-Series - Massachusetts: a Guide to its Places and People, p.605
Home sweet home. This is the town I live in. Supposedly, "a prominent center in the American Industrial Revolution" (wikipedia). We do have a ton of 19th century cloth mills in this town, with earliest one dating around 1821.
Book: Massachusetts
Page Number(s) of Excerpt: 605
Year Originally Published: 1937
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