Industrialization

1st mill in Westford - saw and grist

Mar 22, 1680

Jonas Prescott given a land grant on Forge Pond builds a corn/girst meal

Mar 20, 1710

Fulling mill built at Brookeside

Mar 22, 1724

Incorporation of Westford

Mar 22, 1729

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

Apr 3, 1823

Ben Palmer comes to Maine, opens quarry

Mar 22, 1824

Opening of Boston Lowell Railroad

Mar 20, 1835

Opening of StonyBrook Rail Road

Mar 20, 1848

Official opening Stony Brook Rail Road

Mar 22, 1848

Official opening of Stony Brook Rail Road

Apr 3, 1848

Abbott Worsted Mill bought by Forge Village Nail Company

Mar 22, 1854

Abbott Company comes to existance begins to manufcature yams

Mar 22, 1854

Charles G Sargaent buy Thomas Richardsons saw mill to open GC Sargaents

Apr 3, 1854

Thomas Hittinger buys the picnic area of Forge Pond and expands his ice buisness to Westford

Mar 20, 1864

First of 5 iron forges erected in Forge Village

Mar 22, 1864

Forge Village Nail Company formed

Mar 22, 1867

Opening of Framingham Lowell Railroad

Mar 20, 1872

Opening of the Nashua and Lowell Rail Road

Mar 20, 1873

Opening of Nashua Acton & Boston Railroad

Mar 20, 1873

Isaac Carkin opens Oak Hill Quarry

Apr 3, 1876

Nail Company is bought by Abbot Worsted

Mar 22, 1879

Construction of Middlesex and Pawtucket Canals finished

Mar 22, 1885

Contruction of Middlesex and Pawtcuket Canal

Apr 3, 1885

Boston and Maine RailRoad takes over lease of the Stony Brook Rail Road

Mar 20, 1887

Moore Brothers buy the main mill in Brookeside

Mar 22, 1887

Opening of HE Fletcher Company Quarry

Mar 20, 1895

Opening of HE Fletcher Railroad

Mar 20, 1895

Closing of Nashua, Acton, Boston Railroad

Mar 20, 1925

Closing of Framingham & Lowell Railroad

Mar 20, 1938

Final Local and Regional Passenger Trains on the Stony Brook Rail Road

Mar 20, 1961