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Jonas Prescott given a land grant on Forge Pond and builds a corn/grist mill

Mar 18, 1669

1st mill in Westford- saw and grist mill- is erected near Nab Pond on Saw Mill Brook

Mar 18, 1669

First of 5 iron forges erected in Forge Village (the 4th or 5th earliest in new england)

Mar 18, 1680

Benjamin Palmer comes from Maine- buys 80 acres of land-opens a quarry ( stays in business for almost 100 years)

Mar 18, 1724

Fulling mill built at Brookside- stays in business for 140 years

Mar 18, 1724

Incorporation of westford

Mar 18, 1729

Forge Village Nail company is bought out by the Abbot Worsted Company

Mar 18, 1810

Forge Village Nail company formed- buys land & water rights of the iron forges ( thus ending iron industry in westford)

Mar 18, 1821

incorporation Of lowell

Mar 18, 1823

Charles Hollis hews granite from boulders in town and hails them to boston- unofficial beginning of the granite industry in Westford

Mar 18, 1823

isaac Carkin opens the Oak Hill Quarry- the first quarry in westord

Mar 18, 1826

Opening of the Nashua and lowell Rail Road

Mar 18, 1835

Opening of the Boston and Lowell Rail Road

Mar 18, 1838

Abbot and Company Comes into existence and begins the manufacture of carpet yarns in Graniteville

Mar 18, 1840

Opening of the Stony Brook Rail Road

Mar 18, 1846

Offical opening of the Stony Brook Rail Road (leased and used by the Nashua& Lowell Rail Road

Mar 18, 1846

Abbot Worsted Mill land and buildings bought by the Murray Printing Company

Mar 18, 1847

Construction of Middlesex and Pawtucket Canals Finished

Mar 18, 1851

Charles G. Sargent and Francis A. Calvert buy Thomas Richardsons saw/grist mill in Graniteville and open the C.G. Sargents and Sons Company

Mar 18, 1854

Thomas Hittinger buys the picnic area of Forge Pond and expands his ice bsiness to westford

Mar 18, 1864

Opening of the Framingham and Lowell Rail Road

Mar 18, 1872

Opening of the Nashua, Acton and Boston Rail Road

Mar 18, 1873

Opening of the H.E. Fletcher Company Quarry

Mar 18, 1881

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

Mar 18, 1887

Moore brothers buy the main mill in Brookside and convert it to the maufacture of yarn

Mar 18, 1887

Opening of the H.E. Fletcher Rail Road

Mar 18, 1895

Closing of the Framingham and Lowell Rail Road

Mar 18, 1901

Closing of the Nashua, Acton, and Boston Rail Road

Mar 18, 1925

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

Mar 18, 1953