. A gazetteer of the state of Massachusetts : with numerous illustrations. enormousprices for transportation. While aiding the development of the re-sources of the northern section of the State, it also affords themost attractive line of travel through the alpine regions of theCommon wealth. Folly Cove Village, in Gloucester. Frxr-^of T-J il 1 o a locality and cemetery in the West Rox-OieoL n 111S, burv district of Boston. Forge Village, inWestford. Fort Point Channel, the entrance to South Bay,which divides South Boston from the city proper. T-^r»rf R \\rf*r a viHaSe *n Hadley; also a stream
. A gazetteer of the state of Massachusetts : with numerous illustrations. enormousprices for transportation. While aiding the development of the re-sources of the northern section of the State, it also affords themost attractive line of travel through the alpine regions of theCommon wealth. Folly Cove Village, in Gloucester. Frxr-^of T-J il 1 o a locality and cemetery in the West Rox-OieoL n 111S, burv district of Boston. Forge Village, inWestford. Fort Point Channel, the entrance to South Bay,which divides South Boston from the city proper. T-^r»rf R \\rf*r a viHaSe *n Hadley; also a stream rising in1 Ul L IVIVCI, Pelham, and running southwest throughAmherst and Hadley to the Connecticut Biver. Foundry Village, inCoirain. T^niir f^nrnprQ a village in Middleborough ; also one in1 OUT V_^OITlCrb, Stockbridge, and one in Worthington. Fr»vh/^rr»iirrh *s a busy ancl prosperous town in theOXUOrUUgll southwestern part of Norfolk County,about 20 miles southwest of Boston. The Providence Branch andthe Northern Division of the Old Colony Bailroad pass through it,. FOXBOROUGH. 313 having stations at Foxborough (centre), Foxvale, and East andNorth Foxborough. The other villages are West and South Fox-borough, Foxvale, Foxborough Furnace, and Donkeyville. Wal-pole bounds it on the north and northwest, Sharon on the northeast,Mansfield on the southeast and south, and Wrentham and Norfolkon the vest. The assessed area is 12,085 acres ; and of this 3,387acres are forest, consisting of oak, pine, chestnut and maple. Itoccupies the crest of the ridge between Narragansett and Dorchesterbays. In the west, northwest and southeast it is quite hilly; butthe most conspicuous elevation is Foolish Hill, a little southeast oftin centre. Neponset River and Cocasset Brook have their sourcesin the central and western part, the former flowing northward toBoston Harbor, and the latter southward to Taunton River. Fil-lings Brook, in the eastern part, is also a tributary of this river. Onthese
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