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Title: History of the town of Winchendon (Worcester County, Mass.) : from the grant of Ipswich Canada, in 1735, to the present time
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Marvin, Abijah P. (Abijah Perkins)
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Publisher: Winchendon
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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* In the year 1831, there was a meeting one evening, in the North Congre-gational Church. A lecture on Village Improvements was delivered, Inwhich the lecturer set forth the importance of planting shade and fruit treestnd shrubbery; of beautifying the yards and gardens; and of having a regardfor correct taste in architecture. A society was formed to carry out thesesuggestions, and though the Association never took any farther action, themembers and other citizens, caught the spirit of improvement, and immedi-ately began the work. Now the streets are lined, and the yards are filled withtrees, and among all our neat, convenient dwellings, there is not one which isodd in shape, or which offends the eye, while several, as those of George Con-verse, Washington Whitney, James Whitman, Orlando Mason and E. Mur-dock, Jr., are fine specimens of village architecture. The latter especially,while elegant and imposing on the exterior, seems within to combine everyconvenience with cultivated taste.
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HISTORY OF WDTCHENBOIT. 393 SPRING VILLAGE AND WATER VILLE. The origin of these villages has already been given. They are bothcapable of considerable increase. There is a plan under considerationfor raising the dam of the Monomonauk some ten feet above its presentlevel. This -would probably double the power in the dry season of theyear. Moreover, if the proposed railroad from Peterborough shall bebrought through Spring Village, it will add to its prosperity. Besidesthe increase of business, the Spring would become a place of resort,since the faculties for promoting the health and enjoyment of visitors,are almost unrivalled. Wateryille has greater capabilities, inasmuch as it receives waterfrom both branches of Millers river, and including Hydeville, has agreater fall. The river descends some sixty or seventy feet in the courseof half a mile, and there are good building spots the whole distance.When the connection between the Village and the railroad in the southpart of the town is mad

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