Industrialization By tighla Mar 22, 1680 1st mill in Westford - saw and grist Mar 20, 1710 Jonas Prescott given a land grant on Forge Pond builds a corn/girst meal Mar 22, 1724 Fulling mill built at Brookeside Mar 22, 1729 Incorporation of Westford Apr 3, 1823 Charles Hollis hews granite deom boulders in town and hauls them to boston Mar 22, 1824 Ben Palmer comes to Maine, opens quarry Mar 20, 1835 Opening of Boston Lowell Railroad Mar 20, 1848 Opening of StonyBrook Rail Road Mar 22, 1848 Official opening Stony Brook Rail Road Apr 3, 1848 Official opening of Stony Brook Rail Road Mar 22, 1854 Abbott Worsted Mill bought by Forge Village Nail Company Mar 22, 1854 Abbott Company comes to existance begins to manufcature yams Apr 3, 1854 Charles G Sargaent buy Thomas Richardsons saw mill to open GC Sargaents Mar 20, 1864 Thomas Hittinger buys the picnic area of Forge Pond and expands his ice buisness to Westford Mar 22, 1864 First of 5 iron forges erected in Forge Village Mar 22, 1867 Forge Village Nail Company formed Mar 20, 1872 Opening of Framingham Lowell Railroad Mar 20, 1873 Opening of the Nashua and Lowell Rail Road Mar 20, 1873 Opening of Nashua Acton & Boston Railroad Apr 3, 1876 Isaac Carkin opens Oak Hill Quarry Mar 22, 1879 Nail Company is bought by Abbot Worsted Mar 22, 1885 Construction of Middlesex and Pawtucket Canals finished Apr 3, 1885 Contruction of Middlesex and Pawtcuket Canal Mar 20, 1887 Boston and Maine RailRoad takes over lease of the Stony Brook Rail Road Mar 22, 1887 Moore Brothers buy the main mill in Brookeside Mar 20, 1895 Opening of HE Fletcher Company Quarry Mar 20, 1895 Opening of HE Fletcher Railroad Mar 20, 1925 Closing of Nashua, Acton, Boston Railroad Mar 20, 1938 Closing of Framingham & Lowell Railroad Mar 20, 1961 Final Local and Regional Passenger Trains on the Stony Brook Rail Road
