Industrialization events By pkvalentine11 Mar 20, 1680 1st mill in Westford saw/grist mill near Nab on Saw mill brook Mar 20, 1710 Jonas Pescott Gets Forge Land grant and Bulids Corn/Grist mill Mar 21, 1710 First of 5 forges erected in Forge Village Mar 20, 1724 Fulling Mill built at brookside Mar 20, 1729 Incorporation of Westford Mar 22, 1796 Pawtucket canal finished Mar 22, 1804 construction of Middlesex canal finished Mar 20, 1823 Benjamin Palmer Comes from Maine Buys 80 acres of land opens a quarry Mar 22, 1823 Charles Hollis hews granite from boulders in town and hauls them to boston Mar 20, 1826 Incorperation of Lowell Mar 22, 1826 Isaac Carkin opens the Oak Hill Quarry Mar 20, 1835 Boston-Lowell Rail road opens Mar 20, 1848 stony brook rail road opens Mar 20, 1854 Aboot and CO. comes into existance starts yarn manufacturing in Graniteville Mar 22, 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 20, 1864 Thomas Hittenger Buys Picnic Area at Forge Pond and expands His Ice Buisness to Westford Mar 20, 1865 Forge Village Nail Co. formed buys land/waters rights to iron forges Mar 20, 1872 Framingham-Lowell Rail road opens Mar 20, 1873 Nahua, Acton, Boston RR opens Apr 19, 1873 Nashua-Lowell Rail road opens Mar 20, 1879 Forge Village Nail Co. is bought by Abbot Worsted Co. Mar 20, 1880 H.E. Fletcher Company Quarry opens Mar 20, 1884 Abbot Worsted Mill land and Buildings Bought by Murray Printing Co. Mar 20, 1887 Boston-Maine RR leases Stoney Brook RR Mar 22, 1887 Moore Brothers buy the main mill in Brookside and convert it to manufacture yarn Mar 20, 1895 HE Fletcher RR opens Mar 20, 1926 Closing of Nashua-Acton-Boston RR Mar 20, 1938 Closing of Framingham-Lowell RR Mar 20, 1953 Final Local and Regional Passenger trains on Stoney Brook RR
