From its incorporation in 1729 through the latenineteenth century, Westford, Massachusetts, was a farming community sparsely populated by families of English ancestry. But in the first years of the twentieth century, a significant change occurred in Westford when mills that had opened in the town‚’s Forge Village and Graniteville sections began to recruit workers from Russia, Poland, England, Ireland, Scotland, Italy, and Canada. Westford depicts what the arrival of the mills and the mill workers meant to the town and its evolution in the twentieth century. The book also describes the effect of the mills‚’ demise in the 1950s, and chronicles the town‚’s recent development into a very appealing bedroom community for workers in Boston.

Westford

History

Shaw, Beth

Harde, Ellen

Westford League of Women Voters

Americas

Arcadia Pub

Created in 1957 by the Col. John Robinson Chapter of the Daughters of the Revolution, Old Houses of Westford was an examination of 127 buildings that were the foundations of both historical and present-day Westford Massachusetts. Updated in 2004, 2009, and finally in 2011 to become The New Old Houses of Westford, the book has grown to show the great significance of these beautiful homes and structures. Through rich histories and deep family lines, the houses themselves have become an important part of Westford just as much as the people living there and the events concerning them. Open this book and step back into old Westford, where you may learn a few things about the home just down the road.

The New Old Houses of Westford 2011

Day, Marilyn

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

From its incorporation in 1729 through the late nineteenth century, Westford, Massachusetts, was a farming community sparsely populated by families of English ancestry. But in the first years of the twentieth century, a significant change occurred in Westford when mills that had opened in the town 's Forge Village and Graniteville sections began to recruit workers from Russia, Poland, England, Ireland, Scotland, Italy, and Canada. Westford depicts what the arrival of the mills and the mill workers meant to the town and its evolution in the twentieth century. The book also describes the effect of the mills ' demise in the 1950s, and chronicles the town 's recent development into a very appealing bedroom community for workers in Boston."

Westford League of Woman Voters

Arcadia Publishing Library Editions

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