Industrialization events

1st mill in Westford saw/grist mill near Nab on Saw mill brook

Mar 20, 1680

Jonas Pescott Gets Forge Land grant and Bulids Corn/Grist mill

Mar 20, 1710

First of 5 forges erected in Forge Village

Mar 21, 1710

Fulling Mill built at brookside

Mar 20, 1724

Incorporation of Westford

Mar 20, 1729

Pawtucket canal finished

Mar 22, 1796

construction of Middlesex canal finished

Mar 22, 1804

Benjamin Palmer Comes from Maine Buys 80 acres of land opens a quarry

Mar 20, 1823

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

Mar 22, 1823

Incorperation of Lowell

Mar 20, 1826

Isaac Carkin opens the Oak Hill Quarry

Mar 22, 1826

Boston-Lowell Rail road opens

Mar 20, 1835

stony brook rail road opens

Mar 20, 1848

Aboot and CO. comes into existance starts yarn manufacturing in Graniteville

Mar 20, 1854

Charles G Sargent and Francis A Calvert buy Thomas richardson's saw/grist mill in Graniteville and open the CG Sargents and sons Co

Mar 22, 1854

Thomas Hittenger Buys Picnic Area at Forge Pond and expands His Ice Buisness to Westford

Mar 20, 1864

Forge Village Nail Co. formed buys land/waters rights to iron forges

Mar 20, 1865

Framingham-Lowell Rail road opens

Mar 20, 1872

Nahua, Acton, Boston RR opens

Mar 20, 1873

Nashua-Lowell Rail road opens

Apr 19, 1873

Forge Village Nail Co. is bought by Abbot Worsted Co.

Mar 20, 1879

H.E. Fletcher Company Quarry opens

Mar 20, 1880

Abbot Worsted Mill land and Buildings Bought by Murray Printing Co.

Mar 20, 1884

Boston-Maine RR leases Stoney Brook RR

Mar 20, 1887

Moore Brothers buy the main mill in Brookside and convert it to manufacture yarn

Mar 22, 1887

HE Fletcher RR opens

Mar 20, 1895

Closing of Nashua-Acton-Boston RR

Mar 20, 1926

Closing of Framingham-Lowell RR

Mar 20, 1938

Final Local and Regional Passenger trains on Stoney Brook RR

Mar 20, 1953