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A manufacturing plant was set up on Hendee Street in Springfield, Massachusetts, at the former 'American Wire Wheel Company' building. Over the years, the factory's 1,200 employees produced 1,703 Silver Ghosts and 1,241 Phantoms, with the first Silver Ghost chassis finished in 1921. The 1929 stock market crash led to the plant's closure in 1931.
In addition to the manufacturing of wood products, Winchendon is known for its textile business during the Industrial Revolution. Located at the headwaters of the Millers River, Joseph 'Deacon' White of West Boylston, Massachusetts, with his son Nelson, purchased a textile mill in Spring Village in 1843. By 1857, the Nelson Mills had revamped a ...
Linwood is a village with its own post office in the towns of Northbridge and Uxbridge, Massachusetts, United States.. The zip code of the Linwood post office is 01525. As a village of both Uxbridge and Northbridge, [2] Linwood has separate municipal services from Uxbridge or Northbridge, for fire, police, EMS, School district, public works, and other services, depending on the town (township ...
Huntington is a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 2,094 at the 2020 census. [1] It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. The main village of Huntington is in the south of the town, with the villages of Norwich [2] and Norwich Bridge in the center. (The villages are ...
During the nineteenth and early twentieth century, the manufacture of boots and shoes was its primary industry, with nearly half of the footwear provided for the Union Army during the Civil War being provided by Abington factories. [1] From 1846 to 1865, Abington was a center of the abolitionist movement. [1]
A short stretch (2/3 of a mile long) of Massachusetts Route 3 crosses the northeast corner of town, granting access to Route 228, which terminates just south of the highway. Route 123 and Route 139 pass from west to east just south of the center of town, running coextensively for roughly 2/3 of a mile.
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On July 21, 2023, the OMB delineated two combined statistical area, seven metropolitan statistical areas, and three micropolitan statistical area in Massachusetts. [1] As of 2023, the largest of these is the Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH CSA , comprising the area around Massachusetts' capital and largest city of Boston .