Quabbin Reservoir removal files, 1927-1940.

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Quabbin Reservoir removal files, 1927-1940.

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The Metropolitan District Water Supply Commission was created for the purpose of extending and increasing the water supply to the Massachusetts metropolitan water system (St 1926, c 375). The commission was authorized to purchase or take land in the watersheds of the Swift and Ware rivers to develop the Quabbin Reservoir. This included disinterment, transfer, and reburial from cemeteries in the areas to be flooded to the Quabbin Park Cemetery and other locations. This series consists of records documenting the removal of the deceased from their original gravesites.

1.6 cubic ft. (1 record center carton and 1 doc. box)

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Archives

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Massachusetts. Metropolitan District Water Supply Commission

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Maps prepared by the Massachusetts Metropolitan District Water Supply Commission. From the description of Quabbin Reservoir maps of proposed site collection, 1926, 1933. (University of Massachusetts Amherst). WorldCat record id: 52807502 The Western Massachusetts towns of Dana, Enfield, Greenwich, Prescott, and North Dana were abolished in 1938 to allow the Swift River Valley to be flooded, thereby creating the Quabbin Reservoir to provide Boston with water. From...