History of Worcester County, Massachusetts, embracing a comprehensive history of the county from its first settlement to the present time . VNION PASSENGKR STATION, yiTCHBlRG, riTCHBURG WOOLEX MILL COMPANYS SIANUyACTORY, FITCHBURG, 3IASS. LOCAL PRESS. 463 to the street. Above was the Fitcbburg Bank, aud a tavern on the presentsite of the Kcjll-^tonc House. There wore perhaps forty dwelling-houses iu the upper portion of the vil-lage. There was a cotton-mill where is now the mill of H. W. Pitts, and thewoolen-mill iu Factory Scjuare was substantially the same as is the presentfactory of
History of Worcester County, Massachusetts, embracing a comprehensive history of the county from its first settlement to the present time . VNION PASSENGKR STATION, yiTCHBlRG, riTCHBURG WOOLEX MILL COMPANYS SIANUyACTORY, FITCHBURG, 3IASS. LOCAL PRESS. 463 to the street. Above was the Fitcbburg Bank, aud a tavern on the presentsite of the Kcjll-^tonc House. There wore perhaps forty dwelling-houses iu the upper portion of the vil-lage. There was a cotton-mill where is now the mill of H. W. Pitts, and thewoolen-mill iu Factory Scjuare was substantially the same as is the presentfactory of the Fitcbburg ^Voolen Mill Company. In Newton Laue there wasa cotton factory. In the Old City, there was a store iu the rear of the present store of I. , and there were about a dozen dwelling-houses. There was also thestone cotton-mill on Laurel Street, and a paper-mill on Water Street. Fitcbburg was at this time quite a flourishing little place, which for ten yearspreviously had grown quite lapidly. In the year 1800, it contained 1,390inhabitants, but in 1835 the number had increased to about 2,700. Therewere a numV)er of stone bridges and a dozen dams on the Nashua,
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