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Worcester Bus Company
The Worcester Consolidated Street Railway (WCSR) was a streetcar and later bus system in Worcester and surrounding areas of Central Massachusetts, United States. Its earliest predecessor opened in 1863 and its final successor closed in 1978. The third-largest streetcar system in Massachusetts, it operated a dense network of urban lines in Worcester plus rural lines across Central Massachusetts. At peak size in the late 1910s, it operated 547 streetcars over of track, carrying 69.8 million annual passengers over 40 routes. The WCSR had a number of powerhouses and carhouses, many inherited from other companies it acquired. Freight service was operated from 1912 to 1927. The system originated as the Worcester Horse Railway – later the Worcester Street Railway – which was formed in 1861 and opened in 1863. It was acquired in 1887 by the Citizens' Street Railway, which opened the previous year. The combined company became the Worcester Consolidated Street Railway. The first ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Worcester County Courthouse
The former Worcester County Courthouse is a historic Greek Revival and Classical Revival building at 2 Main Street in Worcester, Massachusetts, in the Lincoln Square district and within the historic Institutional District. It was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021. History The oldest portion of the current building was constructed in 1845 to a Greek Revival design by Boston architect Ammi B. Young on a parcel of land which had been the site of a courthouse since the 1730s. As originally designed, the building had a portico of six Corinthian order columns, modeled on those of the Tower of the Winds in Athens. In 1878 an addition, designed by Worcester architect Stephen C. Earle, was added to the rear of the building. In 1897 a major project to expand the building was approved by the state legislature. After a Architectural design competition, design competition the project was awarded to Boston architects Andrews, Jaques & Rantoul. Their design ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Webster, Massachusetts
Webster is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 17,776 at the 2020 census. Named after statesman Daniel Webster, the town was founded by industrialist Samuel Slater, and was home to several early American textile mills. It is home to the Chaubunagungamaug Reservation of the Nipmuc, as well as Lake Chaubunagungamaug, the third largest body of freshwater, and largest natural lake, in Massachusetts. History The area that is now Webster was the ancestral home of the Nipmuc people for thousands of years. It was first colonized by Europeans in 1713 and was officially incorporated on March 6, 1832. The area forming the town had previously been divided among the town of Dudley, the town of Oxford and an unincorporated gore. The primary founder was the manufacturer Samuel Slater, who came to the area after his celebrated activities in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and founded several textile mills, one of which was taken over by the Cranst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grafton, Massachusetts
Grafton is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 19,664 at the 2020 census. The town consists of the North Grafton, Grafton, and South Grafton geographic areas, each with a separate ZIP Code. Incorporated in 1735, the town is home to a Nipmuc village known as '' Hassanamisco'' Reservation, the Willard House and Clock Museum, Community Harvest Project, and the Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine. History Bands of the Nipmuc tribe are the indigenous inhabitants, and maintain a state-recognized reservation known as Hassanamesit, or Hassanamisco, which was formerly a Praying Indian village from 1647 when the Reverend John Eliot came and converted the Hassanamiscos to Christianity . in 1727 the Hassanamesit reservation of 8,000 acres was divided into 7,500 acres to 40 English proprietors and 500 acres to 7 Nipmuc proprietors. This became Grafton, officially incorporated in 1735. Grafton stands tall in the industrializat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston And Worcester Street Railway
Boston and Worcester Electric Companies (B&W) was a holding company for several streetcar companies between Boston, Massachusetts, Boston and Worcester, Massachusetts. The main line, built by the Boston and Worcester Street Railway, was an interurban streetcar line partly on the old Boston and Worcester Turnpike (now Massachusetts State Highway 9, Route 9) and partly on private Right-of-way (railroad), right-of-way. Long after the line was converted to buses, Boston and Worcester Lines took over operations, and sold the Franchising, franchises to various other bus companies. In Newton (MA), Newton, the B&W was granted a franchise in exchange for constructing a 90-foot (27 m) wide boulevard, of which it ran down the median (highway), median. The B&W also carried freight. History The Boston and Worcester Street Railway was chartered November 16, 1901. Service between Boston and Framingham Junction began on May 5, 1903. (The line operated over the Boston Elevated Railway in Brooklin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millbury, Massachusetts
Millbury is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. Located within Blackstone Valley, the population in Millbury was 13,831 at the 2020 United States census. History Millbury was first settled in 1716. It was originally known as the Second or North Parish of Sutton. Because traveling from one part of the town to the other for meetings was time-consuming, inhabitants of the North Parish petitioned the Massachusetts General Court to split Sutton. North Parish became Millbury on June 11, 1813, by way of an act of incorporation. Its name derived from its long history as a mill town. The Blackstone River flows through the town, and during the Industrial Revolution, provided water power to its many textile mills and factories. During this time, the inventor William Crompton worked in Millbury. Millbury's industrial history begins in the early eighteenth century, not long after the area's settlement. In 1735, John Singletary began operating a mill on Singletary Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jefferson, Massachusetts
Holden is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The town was founded in 1741, and the Town Square (Center, Common) was donated by John Hancock, former Governor of Massachusetts. The population was 19,905 at the 2020 census. It includes the village of Jefferson. History Holden was named for Samuel Holden, a director of the Bank of England. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which is land and , or 3.40%, is water. The landscape is compiled of hills and rivers, including the Quinapoxet. Holden is bounded on the west by Rutland, on the northwest by Princeton, on the east by Sterling and West Boylston, on the southeast by Worcester, and on the southwest by Paxton. Demographics As of the census of 2020, there were 19,905 people, 7,251 households, and 5,457 families residing in the town. The population density was . There were 7,439 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the town ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatnuck, Massachusetts
Worcester ( , ) is the second-most populous city in the U.S. state of Massachusetts and the 113th most populous city in the United States. Named after Worcester, England, the city had 206,518 people at the 2020 census, also making it the second- most populous city in New England, after Boston, Massachusetts. Worcester is about west of Boston, east of Springfield, Massachusetts, and north-northwest of Providence, Rhode Island. Because it is near the geographic center of Massachusetts, Worcester is known as the "Heart of the Commonwealth"; a heart is the official symbol of the city. Worcester is the historical seat of Worcester County. Worcester developed as an industrial city in the 19th century because the Blackstone Canal and railways facilitated the import of raw materials and the export of such finished goods as machines, textiles, and wire. Many European immigrants made up the city's growing population. After World War II, manufacturing there waned; economic and popula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
