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Massachusetts Reservoir Floods Two Towns

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 16, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 3.

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Massachusetts Reservoir Floods Two Towns

In building a new reservoir for Boston the State found it necessary to flood 5,000 acres of central Massachusetts. Ainslee’s for January tells us. A cemetery and railroad have to be moved; six large mills, eight schoolhouses, four churches, and 360 dwelling-houses have to be torn down. Two growing towns, Oakdale and West Boylston, are annihilated. The State of Massachusetts has made liberal award for all damages to property, even for the time of the workingmen thrown out of employment.