Industrial Revolution

1st Mill In Westford.

Mar 14, 1669

Saw and grist mill on nab pond.

Jonas prescott givven a land grant on Forge Pond

Mar 14, 1669

He builds a corn/grist mill.

1st of five iorn frges built of in Forge Village.

Mar 14, 1680

Incorporation of Westford

Mar 14, 1724

Fulling mill built in Brookside

Mar 14, 1724

Forge Village Nail co. Formed

Mar 14, 1821

Buys land and water rightsof the iorn forges.

Incorporation of Lowell

Mar 14, 1823

Charles Hollis hews granite from boulders in town and hauls them to boston

Mar 14, 1823

Isaac Carkin opens the Oak Hill Quarry

Mar 14, 1826

1st quarry in Westford

Opening of the Nashua & Lowell RR

Mar 14, 1835

Opening of the Boston & Lowell RR

Mar 14, 1835

Forge Village Nail Co. Bought Out by the Abbot Worsted Co.

Mar 14, 1840

Abbot Worsted Co. Comes Into Exitance

Mar 14, 1840

Begins the manufacturing of capet yarns.

Opening of the Stony Brook RR

Mar 14, 1846

Construction of the Middlesex and Pawtucket canal finished

Mar 14, 1851

Charles G. Sargent And Francis A. Calvert buy Thomas Richardson's mill in Graniteville

Mar 14, 1854

The open the C.G. Sargent and sons Co.

Thomas Hittenger buys the picnic area of Forge Pond

Mar 14, 1864

He expands his ice business to westford.

Opening of the Framingham & Lowell RR

Mar 14, 1872

Opening of the Nashua, Acton & Boston RR

Mar 14, 1873

Opening of the H.E. Flecher Co. Quarry

Mar 14, 1881

Boston & Main RR takes over the lease of the Stony Brook RR

Mar 18, 1887

Moore Brothers buy the Brookside mill and convert it to manufacture of yarn.

Mar 18, 1887

Opening of the H.E. Flecher RR

Mar 14, 1895

Closing of the Nashua, Acton & Boston RR

Mar 14, 1925

Final passenger trains on the Stony Brook RR

Mar 14, 1953

Abbot Worsted Mill land and building bought out by the Murry Printing Co.

Mar 18, 1957

Closing of the Framinham & Lowell RR

Mar 14, 1990