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Title: Leading business men of Spencer, Brookfield and vicinity;
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Mercantile publishing co., Boston. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Spencer (Mass.) Brookfield, Mass. (from old catalog) North Brookfield, Mass. (from old catalog) West Brookfield, Mass. (from old catalog) Warren, Mass. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Boston, Mercantile publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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N AND WEST WARREN. 55 the highest land in the state is visible, as well as Mount Monadnock, in New Hamp-shire, and Mount Wachusett, in Princton. In West Warren, from the side ofCedar Hill, may be had an especially wild and picturesque view; the Quaboag riverdashing madly through the narrow ravine, the heaps of jagged rocks along its banks,while through the opening of the valley beyond may be seen sloping hills withthickly-wooded summits, their graceful outlines forming an agreeable contrast to theabrupt and broken features characterizing the foreground of the pictui-e. TheBoston & Albany Railroad crosses the river six times in a distance of four miles, andthe curving tracks and rapidly moving trains add materially to the interest whichthe natural scenery inspires. As a summer resort, Warren is rapidly growing in pop-ularity, and now that she has a hotel strictly first-class in every respect, it is ascertain as any future event can be, that this growth will receive renewed impetus.
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The Square opposite Dkiot, Warren. The first town meeting after the incorporation of Warren, (we shall to avoidconfusion, refer to the town by its present name, although it should be borne in mindthat it was called Western until 1834,) was held March 8, 1741, and in the latterpart of the succeeding year a committee was chosen to buy an acre of land on whichto erect the town meeting house. In May, 1743, a committee was selected to buildthe house in question, its dimensions being given as 45x35 feet, and twenty feet sixinches from sill to plate. September, 1743, forty pounds were voted for schoolexpenses, and in November, 1745, it was voted to build a school house 20x17 feet,having a Dutch chimney at each end. The town slowly increased in population andwealth, but as time went on, the growing injustice of British laws created a spirit ofrebellion among the people, as is significantly indicated by a resolution adopted in 1774, 56 HISTOBICAL SKETCH OF WABBEN AND WEST WABBEN. which after p

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