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Westwood is located in eastern Massachusetts, bordered by: the town of Needham to the north; the town of Dedham to the east; the town of Canton to the southeast; the town of Norwood to the south; the town of Walpole to the southwest; the town of Dover to the west
The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) is a public authority in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that provides wholesale drinking water and sewage services to 3.1 million people in sixty-one municipalities and more than 5,500 large industrial users in the eastern and central parts of the state, primarily in the Boston area. [2]
In 1885, when Westwood was part of the town of Dedham as the Parish of West Dedham, the water rights of the pond were sold to the neighboring town of Norwood. The anger around selling off of a local water source was a contributing reason for the parish to split from Dedham, which is when Westwood was incorporated as a town in 1897. [2]
Massachusetts shares with the five other New England states a governmental structure known as the New England town.Only the southeastern third of the state has functioning county governments; in western, central, and northeastern Massachusetts, traditional county-level government was eliminated in the late 1990s.
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According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 19.6 square miles (51 km 2), of which 18.9 square miles (49 km 2) is land and 0.6 square miles (1.6 km 2) (3.27%) is water. Canton lies at the foot of Great Blue Hill .
Westwood High School (Massachusetts) X. Xaverian Brothers High School This page was last edited on 4 January 2014, at 13:21 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Volume 1 (A-H), Volume 2 (L-W) compiled by Samuel Adams Drake, published 1879 and 1880. 572 and 505 pages. Westford section in volume 2 page 475 by Hodgman and Julian Abbott. History of the Town of Westford, in the County of Middlesex, Massachusetts, by Rev. Edwin Ruthven Hodgman, published 1883, 494 ...