Athol, Massachusetts
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Athol is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 11,945 at the 2020 census.
Millers River
Print of Athol from 1887 by L.R. Burleigh with listing of landmarks
Bird's-eye view in 1908
Opera House c. 1906
Fitchburg Railroad
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The Fitchburg Railroad is a former railroad company, which built a railroad line across northern Massachusetts, United States, leading to and through the Hoosac Tunnel. The Fitchburg was leased to the Boston and Maine Railroad in 1900. The main line from Boston to Fitchburg is now operated as the MBTA Fitchburg Line; Pan Am Railways runs freight service on some other portions.
A locomotive of the Fitchburg railroad in Keene, New Hampshire in the mid to late 1800s
Fitchburg depot, Boston, sometime between 1870 and 1889. One of these towers later became the Jenny Lind Tower.
Medford Street grade crossing elimination work in December 1912