Temporarily On Hold

 Due to circumstances beyond my control (don't you just hate when someone says that?) I'll be putting this project on hold. There are various reasons and those reasons take precedence. You'll see some posts come through for a while. I have all the town posts scheduled to publish through November 2021. I anticipate starting the project back up in October 2021 if all goes as planned. What's that old saying? The best laid plans...

Millers Falls

From Wikipedia: Millers Falls is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Montague in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the Springfield,  Massachusetts metropolitan statistical area. Located along the Mohawk Trail, Millers Falls was first established in 1824 as an agricultural community, named Grout's Corner after first settler Martin Grout (1790–1865). In the 1860s, however, the local growth of railroads stimulated development, as the New London Northern Railroad bought the Amherst & Palmer railroad in 1864 and in 1866 extended its line to a connection with the Vermont & Massachusetts at Grout's Corner. With this new railroad juncture, the abundant water power of the falls at Grout's Corner provided a perfect place to establish mills. The village's present name derives from the Millers Falls Manufacturing Company (later the Millers Falls Company), established on the Millers River in 1868, and famed for its fine hand tools.

Templeton

From Wikipedia: Templeton is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. Established as " Templetown" March 6, 1762, from the plantation called "Narragansett Number Six." Part set off to Gardner June 27, 1785,and part included in new town of Gerry (Phillipston) Oct. 20, 1786.

Lincoln

From Wikipedia: Lincoln is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. The town, located in Boston's MetroWest, has a rich colonial history and large amounts of public conservation land. Lincoln was settled by Europeans in 1654, as a part of Concord. The majority of Lincoln was formed by splitting off a substantial piece of southeast Concord and incorporated as a separate town in 1754. Due to their "difficulties and inconveniences by reason of their distance from the places of Public Worship in their respective Towns," local inhabitants petitioned the General Court to be set apart as a separate town. Because the new town was composed of parts "nipped" off from the adjacent towns of Concord, Weston (which itself had been part of Watertown) and Lexington (which itself had been part of Cambridge), it was sometimes referred to as "Niptown." Paul Revere was captured by British soldiers in Lincoln on the night of April 18, 1775. Minutemen from Lincoln were the first to arrive to reinforce the colonists protecting American stores of ammunition and arms in Concord. Colonel Abijah Pierce of Lincoln led his troops, armed with a cane. He upgraded his weapon to a British musket after the battle. Five British soldiers who fell in Lincoln are buried in the town cemetery. A substantial portion of the first battle of the Revolutionary War, the Battle of Lexington and Concord, was fought in Lincoln.