Download or read book Westford written by Ellen Harde and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 1996-07-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its incorporation in 1729 through the late nineteenth century, Westford, Massachusetts, was a farming community sparsely populated by families of English ancestry. But in the first years of the twentieth century, a significant change occurred in Westford when mills that had opened in the townA[a¬A's Forge Village and Graniteville sections began to recruit workers from Russia, Poland, England, Ireland, Scotland, Italy, and Canada. Westford depicts what the arrival of the mills and the mill workers meant to the town and its evolution in the twentieth century. The book also describes the effect of the millsA[a¬A' demise in the 1950s, and chronicles the townA[a¬A's recent development into a very appealing bedroom community for workers in Boston.