West Boylston Collection

Brick home and wooden outbuildings belonging to George





H. Holmes on the northern side of East Main Street and located





diagonally across from the Baptist (Old Stone) Church. Some of these





outbuildings were relocated during the…

View along East Main Street towards Fletcher Street. At





the far left of the image is Odd Fellows Hall, later dismantled and





reassembled at 7 Newton Street. The yard of the District Eight school is just





beyond and the yard of the…

View along the tracks of the Massachusetts Central


Railroad as it crosses the winding Nashua River in the valley. These trestles


remain below the waters of the Wachusett Reservoir. Circa 1895-1905.

View along East Main Street, across the Clarendon Mill


pond, towards the Clarendon Mill complex. The mill pond was built by


Major Ezra Beaman in 1794 by diverting the waters of the Nashua River


through a half-mile canal to provide water…

View along East Main Street, across the Clarendon Mill


pond, towards the Clarendon Mill complex. The state road to Boylston


continues along the ridge. Note the clearing and drainage of the mill pond


as the construction of the Wachusett…