Leading business men of Milford, Hopkinton, and vicinity: embracing also Ashland, Holliston and Hopedale . —Mill River, as the white men havealways called it—is the outlet of North Pond, or Maspenock Pond, to use theIndian title, and falls 137 feet 9 inches before it escapes from Milfords bounda-ries ; affording eleven mill-sites and flowing southerly into the BlackstoneEiver at Woonsocket, E. I. One important effect of these two rivers is to dividethe town into three sections, of which by far the most important is that betweenthe Mill and the Charles; this being six miles in length and from o
Leading business men of Milford, Hopkinton, and vicinity: embracing also Ashland, Holliston and Hopedale . —Mill River, as the white men havealways called it—is the outlet of North Pond, or Maspenock Pond, to use theIndian title, and falls 137 feet 9 inches before it escapes from Milfords bounda-ries ; affording eleven mill-sites and flowing southerly into the BlackstoneEiver at Woonsocket, E. I. One important effect of these two rivers is to dividethe town into three sections, of which by far the most important is that betweenthe Mill and the Charles; this being six miles in length and from one to two HISTORICAL SKETCH OF MILFORD. 5 miles in width. It contains a great deal of arable land, but is also noteworthyfor some very pronounced eminences from which beautiful and extensive viewsare obtainable. Tunnel Hill is 616 feet above the sea; Silver Hill about 587feet, and Magomiscock, which happily still bears its aboriginal name, 637 feet9 inches. Properly speaking, this is a range of highlands rather than a hill,for it is some two miles in length and descends gradually on all sides, its. Main Street Looking South from P. O. apparent height being thereby greatly diminished. The view from the summiton a clear day comprises the Blue Hills of Milton, Wachusett, Monadnock andother famous heights, and is one of the most picturesque of the kind which thestate affords. The Westerly section has a length of four miles and a width of 150 rods, asmall part of it being good farming laud, but most of it being swampy, rocky orwoody. The highest point is North Hill, 572 feet; and the highest point of thethird and last section—that lying east of the Charles—is a famous landmark,Bear Hill, 532 feet above the sea. The Rocky Woods, Korth CedarSwamp and Great Meadow are prominent portions of this section, which,as may be imagined, is not especially adapted to agriculture, although theeastern frontier bounds a range of good farms, which are thoroughly tilled andreasonably producti
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