Identifier: gazetteerofstate00naso (find matches)
Title: A gazetteer of the state of Massachusetts : with numerous illustrations
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Nason, Elias, 1811-1887 Varney, George J. (George Jones), 1836-1901
Subjects: Massachusetts -- Gazetteers
Publisher: Boston : B.B. Russell
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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Albany Railroad. It contains one handsomevillage, which has the post-office and the railway station for thetown. The territory is very irregular in form; being broad at the northand tapering to a point at the south, serrate and convex on the north-east and east, and concave on the west. New Braintree lies on thenorth ; New Brookfield east of the main section ; Brookfield, on the■east, southeast and south; Warren on the southwest, but south ofthe western projection ; and Ware on the west of the broad northernpart. The assessed area is 12,138 acres. There are about 2,300:acres of oak and chestnut. At the pleasant village are many maple,elm, ash, spruce and horse-chestnut trees, some being of unknown.antiquity. The village is further beautified by a shady common andadorned by a fountain. The town scenery is rendered beautiful bymany wooded and cultivated eminences, and fertile valleys throughwhich flow many streams. Whortleberry and Ragged hills diver- . -•», ■■.,■ : .„ i. %
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TOE TOWN LIBRARY AJSiU RJEAJJ1NO ROOM, WliST BROOKFIELEfc WEST CAMBRIDGE. 681 sify the northern part; Wigwam and Foster hills, the eastern;Long Hill, the southern ; and Coys Hill, the western part of thetown. A little west of the centre is Wickaboag Pond, about 430acres in extent, one of the sources of the Chicopee River; one branchof which, flowing from Quaboag Pond, in Brookfield, crosses thesouthern section of the town. Ellis River flows southeast throughthe western part of the town; Sucker Brook drains the north, andCoys Brook the eastern part. The underlying rock is granite andgneiss. The soil of the hills is a clay loam, and that of the lowerlands a sandy loam,— both very fertile. The number of farms is 98, and their product in 1885 was$144,249. They required the labor of 196 men. There were fiveboot and shoe factories, employing 184 persons, and turning outgoods to the amount of 1238,864. The manufacture of corsets em-ployed 139 persons, and a book and job printing office emp

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