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  • The Biggest Boulder
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    • What Lies Beneath – Boylston
    • What Lies Beneath – Clinton
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      • Thomas H. O’Conner
      • George H. Keyes
      • Charles T. Love
      • Charles Lougee
      • James E. Ball
      • William Ferris
      • Susan M. Cutting
    • The Villages at West Boylston (WPI)
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      • Holbrook Street
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      • The Haunted Stream
      • The Centennial Celebration 1886
      • The Flagg Family
      • The Kendall Family
      • “Sig” Sautelle’s Circus
      • Solon Bailey
      • Murder on Central Street
      • The Houses of Julia D. Pratt
  • Hidden Hydraulics at the Dam
    • Upper Gate House
    • Lower Gate House
    • Pool and Fountain
    • Channel Velocity Control
  • Clinton Catholic Cemetery
  • Domenic Santangelo
  • Scar Bridge
  • One Man…One Shovel
  • Get a Horse!
  • How The Valley Was Formed
  • How They Stopped The River
  • The Cableways
  • Denizens
  • Women of the Valley
  • The Icehouses 1897
  • The Camps
  • Hurricane Ida
  • Short Stories by Mary A. Cook
  • Myths, Mysteries & Curiosites 3
  • Coach & Sandy
  • Oakdale Pharmacy
  • Oakdale Hotel
  • West Boylston Manufacturing Company
  • The Moving of Watermark

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Wachusett Dam – Site Preparation

Wachusett Dam & Reservoir beforetherewasadam.com Site Preparation In 1895 it was understood that excavation for the dam, down to bedrock, would result in a huge hole but few realized that it would take five long years to complete the preparatory work before the digging could be started. Major obstacles to be overcome, as addressed in… Continue reading Wachusett Dam – Site Preparation

Published November 30, 2024
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  • Flume – Gatehouse
  • Wachusett Dam – Site Preparation
  • St. Luke’s Catholic Cemetery
  • Sudbury Pipe Arch
  • South Main Street
  • Rip Rap
  • The Big Roads
  • The North Dike
  • DeMarzio & Gietullio
  • The Shortest Road
  • Stripping Soil From the Basin Floor
  • Roads of the Valley
  • Clinton Sewerage Treatment Plant
  • The Construction Railway
  • Diversity at the Dam
  • Myths, Mysteries & Curiosities 1
  • Wachusett Aqueduct
  • The 1903 Relocation of the Central Mass. Division of the B&M Railroad
  • The Stonemasons
  • The Carpenters
  • Construction Site Management
  • The Compressors
  • The Bastion
  • John F. Philbin’s “mutilated” building
  • UFOs (??) Over the Dam
  • The Biggest Boulder
  • Coal at the Dam
  • Houses Under the Dam
  • What Lies Beneath
  • Hidden Hydraulics at the Dam
  • Clinton Catholic Cemetery
  • Domenic Santangelo
  • Scar Bridge
  • One Man…One Shovel
  • Get a Horse!
  • How The Valley Was Formed
  • How They Stopped The River
  • The Cableways
  • Denizens
  • Women of the Valley
  • The Icehouses 1897
  • The Camps
  • Hurricane Ida
  • Short Stories by Mary A. Cook
  • Myths, Mysteries & Curiosites 3
  • Coach & Sandy
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