Fitchburg is a city in northern Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The third-largest city in the county, its population was 41,946 at the 2020 census. Fitchburg State University is located here.
Downtown Fitchburg seen from the south.
Print of Fitchburg from 1882 by L.R. Burleigh with listing of landmarks
Main Street, looking east, in c. 1912
The Rollstone Boulder, on the summit of Rollstone Hill in 1909.
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