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continued to carry freight to a wood box factory in West Hanover into the 1960s this line has been abandoned Matfield Junction to Easton January 1, 1888 7.6 mi or 12.2 km Old Colony Railroad Company 1888 also known as the West Bridgewater Branch, connected Fall River and D&S mainlines [24] Nantasket Beach Branch July 10, 1880 7.0 mi or 11.3 km
This site was the home and farm of Paul Cuffee (1759–1817), a wealthy colonial-era African-American merchant. Cuffee was a leading advocate for minority rights in Massachusetts, and a promoter and funder of the resettlement of African-Americans to present-day Sierra Leone. [36] 31
Fitchburg's Monument Park is located near the center of its downtown Main Street commercial area, flanked by Wallace Avenue (west), Elm Street (north), Hartwell Street (east), and Main Street (south). It is 2/3 acre in size, and is a basically flat and rectangular parcel, with grass and mature maple trees encircled by shrubs and a low iron fence.
The Fitchburg Public Library was established in 1859. [40] [41] In 1899, a child-specific library service began in one of the country's first children's rooms. [42] Fitchburg Public Library became the first regional library in the Massachusetts Regional Library System in 1962. [43] In 2008, the library had a budget of $1,111,412. [44]
The bull is coming to Toy Town. The owners of El Toro, the popular upscale Fitchburg steakhouse, said they would soon be moving their restaurant – complete with a revamped, family-friendly menu ...
The line was further extended west to Rotterdam Junction in 1884. [34] The Fitchburg obtained stock control of the BHT&W in 1887 and purchased it in 1892. [35]: 202 Surveys for a planned extension of the line west to Buffalo, with a branch to Oswego, were instead used by the West Shore Railroad. [36]
CSX train B724 on the Fitchburg Secondary in Southborough, MA. The Fitchburg Subdivision is a railroad line owned by CSX Transportation in the U.S. state of Massachusetts.The line runs from Fitchburg southeast to Framingham Center [1] along a former New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad line.
Fitchburg was the outer terminus of Fitchburg Line service from the closure of Gardner in early 1987 to the opening of Wachusett station in September 2016. [8] The still-extant 1980 station - a short stretch of bare asphalt with a bus shelter - was replaced by the Fitchburg Intermodal Transportation Center on May 15, 2000. [4]