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Boylston is a former unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Alabama, United States, that is now a neighborhood within the city of Montgomery, between the city's downtown and the Tallapoosa River.
The Bigelow Tavern Historic District is a historic district in West Boylston, Massachusetts. It consists of a cluster of three buildings: Bigelow Tavern, the White/Gibbs Store, and Temple's Distillery. The buildings have a history of common ownership, and the area was locally important from the late 18th century into the late 19th century. [2]
Filene's expanded in size to 186,000 sq ft (17,300 m 2) in 1980 with the addition of a third floor, while the mall's Bloomingdale's home store added its own third floor and was reconfigured to include a men's department to complement a women's store it had opened across the street in 1978 at the Chestnut Hill Shopping Center.
On the morning of May 16, 1874, a flood along Williamsburg's Mill River claimed 139 lives and left nearly 800 victims homeless throughout Hampshire County. The deluge occurred when the Williamsburg Reservoir Dam unexpectedly burst, sending a twenty-foot wall of water surging into the valley below.
The town was made up of a large part of land from Shrewsbury and the remainder from Lancaster [3] and was known as the North Parish of Shrewsbury from 1742 until 1786, when it was incorporated as Boylston. [4] Boylston was named after Ward Nicholas Boylston (1747–1828), [5] [6] a benefactor of the town. The fund he set up in 1797 finally ...
This was followed by another mill on the Assabet in 1788 and a blacksmith's forge in 1790. [6] Joel Cranston opened a pub and general store—the settlement's first—in 1794. [ 6 ] Silas Felton (1776–1828) arrived in the settlement in 1799, joining Cranston in business: it was not long before the area became known as Feltonville.
Wakefield High's men's and women's basketball teams won Division II state championships in 1997. [87] Baseball is a popular spring and summer sport in the town, with two men's semiprofessional teams: the Wakefield Merchants, a member of Boston's Intercity Baseball League (and champions of that league in 1978 and 1994), [ 89 ] [ 90 ] and a team ...