. A gazetteer of the state of Massachusetts : with numerous illustrations. on of the territory. The Worcester, Nashua andPortland Division of the Boston and Maine Railroad has its Pep-perell station at Babbatasset village, on the Nashua, near thepaper mills. The Nissitisset River, coming across the townfrom the northwest, and furnishing power at East Village, PEPPEHELL. 535 enters the Nashua a short distance northward of the station. Thelast-mentioned place and Pepperell (centre) are the other villages are North, South and West Pepperell. The town is bounded on the east by Dun
. A gazetteer of the state of Massachusetts : with numerous illustrations. on of the territory. The Worcester, Nashua andPortland Division of the Boston and Maine Railroad has its Pep-perell station at Babbatasset village, on the Nashua, near thepaper mills. The Nissitisset River, coming across the townfrom the northwest, and furnishing power at East Village, PEPPEHELL. 535 enters the Nashua a short distance northward of the station. Thelast-mentioned place and Pepperell (centre) are the other villages are North, South and West Pepperell. The town is bounded on the east by Dunstable and Groton, on thesouth also by the latter, on the west by Townsend, and on thenorth by Mollis in New Hampshire. The assessed area is 13,652acres ; of which 3,236 acres are forests — principally of pine andchestnut. In the northeast are the twin eminences, the NissitissitHills ; on the southwest border is the fine eminence called TheThrone; in the west is Oak Hill, a long and handsome tin- out Invest of this is a group of smaller hills; and in this. THE PEPPERELL PAPER-MILLS, PEPPERELL. vicinity, about 2\ miles west of the centre, is a remarkable chan-nel, or canon, from 75 to 150 feet deep and 250 wide, extendingnorth and south, cutting through the soil and ledges. The sideshave an inclination of 45° to 70°; and a streamlet flows throughthe chasm. Near this is Healds Pond, and at the southern openingof the canon is Healds Mine, penetrating the rock more than 100feet. This work was done about or soon after 1780; but whatmineral was sought is now unknown. The geological structure ofthe town is the St. Johns group, or Andalusite slate. The soil ingeneral is clayey. The value of the aggregate product of the 132 farms in 1885 was 536 GAZETTEER OF MASSACHUSETTS. $132,118. The paper-mill employed 170 persons, and the two shoefactories 287. Other manufactures were machinery, cutlery, car-riages, house lumber, boxes, leather, wrought stone, brick, soap andfood p
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