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Seven towns of the Quabbin Valley. Parts of Palmer, immediately to the south, also lie within the Swift River Valley. [citation needed] View from Quabbin Hill Road in Ware, overlooking where the former town of Enfield was submerged. The Quabbin Valley is a region of Massachusetts in the United States.
The geography of New Salem benefited greatly from the construction of the Quabbin Reservoir. Prior to its building, New Salem, which has always been the southeastern corner of Franklin County, did not extend much further south than the village of Cooleyville, now along U.S. Route 202. However, with the formation of the reservoir, the town ...
The islands of Massachusetts range from barren, almost completely submerged rocks in Massachusetts Bay (e.g. Abbott Rock, first on the list below) to the large, famous and heavily visited Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. The recent history of Massachusetts' islands includes creation by flooding, connection to the mainland and subsumption into ...
Bear's Den (also called by the name of its most outstanding landmark, Bear's Den Falls [1] [2] [3]) is a 6-acre (24,000 m 2) nature reserve in New Salem, Massachusetts. The reservation is close to the Quabbin Reservoir and is owned by the Trustees of Reservations .
It was the least populous of the four unincorporated towns, with barely 300 residents by 1900. Upon dissolution, portions of the town were annexed to the adjacent towns of New Salem and Petersham. The majority of the former town (the New Salem portion) is still above water, and is known as the Prescott Peninsula.
Church on the Hill, in Berkshire County House of the Seven Gables, in Salem, Essex County Sankaty Head Light, in Nantucket Faneuil Hall, Boston, Suffolk County The Flying Horses Carousel, Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County The Ware-Hardwick Covered Bridge, Hampshire and Worcester Counties The PT 796, Fall River, Bristol County The Alvah Stone Mill, Montague, Franklin County
The town was named for Massachusetts statesman Francis Dana. The town was disincorporated on April 28, 1938, as part of the creation of the Quabbin Reservoir. Upon disincorporation, all of the town was ceded to the adjacent town of Petersham. The majority of the land of the former town is still above water.
Federated Women's Club State Forest is a Massachusetts state forest located in the towns of Petersham and New Salem. [1] Notable forest scenery is found along wooded roads with views of Fever Brook, which has been dammed and provides a stopover for migrating birds. The forest's most prominent geological feature, "The Gorge," is found in the ...
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