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Boston & Worcester Railroad, Bogastow Brook Viaduct, Spanning Bogastow Brook at Woodland Avenue, Holliston

Boston & Worcester Railroad, Bogastow Brook Viaduct, Spanning Bogastow Brook at Woodland Avenue, Holliston, Middlesex County, MA. Surveyed as HAER MASS,9-HOLST,1-, with 1 photograph and a 154-word written history.

From the record

“The Bogastow Brook Viaduct is a 260 foot long, 8 arch stone viaduct.”

Written record, HAER MASS,9-HOLST,1- survey. Machine-read text.

surveyed by the federal HAER program as HAER MASS,9-HOLST,1- · the record runs 154 words · one of 333 surveyed structures published for this county.

Sources: the survey record at the Library of Congress

Boston & Worcester Railroad, Bogastow Brook Viaduct, Spanning Bogastow Brook at Woodland Avenue, Holliston, Middlesex County, MA, photograph filed with the federal survey

1 photograph from the federal survey record, Library of Congress.

Significance

71 words

Source document Quoted word for word from HAER MASS,9-HOLST,1-. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.

The Bogastow Brook Viaduct is a 260 foot long, 8 arch stone viaduct. It carries the tracks of the Boston & Worcester Railroad across Bogastow Brook, and also spanned the tailrace of the Holliston Woolen Mills until the Mills were demolished. The Viaduct, which is 14 feet wide, carries a single track which appears to be still in use. It has a modern concrete coping. Transmitted by: Monica E. Hawley, Historian,

In context

Holliston, Massachusetts The place record: every map, photograph and survey of this town.
Middlesex County, Massachusetts 449 topographic sheets across the county.
Library of Congress record The original filed report, and the sheets the survey produced. Those published here appear above.

Also surveyed in Holliston

1 record

The federal surveyors worked through Holliston building by building. These are the other structures they measured and filed a report on, longest report first.

SheetStructure SurveyReport
Goodwill Shoe Company Factory, photograph filed with the federal surveyGoodwill Shoe Company FactoryHAER MASS,9-HOLST,2-191 words

Provenance

  • Written history. Quoted verbatim from HAER MASS,9-HOLST,1-. United States federal work, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Text capture. Machine-read from the scanned typescript filed with the survey, so spelling and spacing follow the original page.
  • How this page is made. Documentary passages are quoted from linked records; page labels and counts are clearly marked as presentation or calculations.