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Billerica Map
See Billerica's history through maps. Move through the years to watch roads, buildings and neighborhoods appear and disappear across the town since its founding.
Opening of the Middlesex County House of Correction
The Middlesex County House of Correction, the county jail on Treble Cove Road in West Billerica, was built in 1930 and 1931 on the old Winning Farm and has...
Mrs. Winthrop's Farm
On May 13, 1640, the General Court of Massachusetts Bay granted 3,000 acres "to Mrs. Winthrop, the wife of Mr. John Winthrop, our late Governor, to be at...
Nuttings Lake Cafe
Nuttings Lake Cafe, Inc. ran a restaurant at Nuttings Lake in the former Turnpike Spa building on the Middlesex Turnpike at the corner of Lake Street, on...
Boston Road Bridge over the Shawsheen River
The Boston Road (Route 3A) bridge crosses the Shawsheen River at Pinehurst. The road here is the old road to Woburn, and the river was crossed near the...
Sexton
The Sexton in a New England town was the officer who took care of the meeting house and the burying ground and dug the graves. In early Billerica the town...
Boston and Maine Billerica Shops
The Billerica Shops were the Boston and Maine Railroad's central plant for the heavy repair of locomotives and passenger cars, built from 1911 to 1914 on a...
Old Billerica Road
Old Billerica Road lies in Bedford. It runs north from Bedford toward the Billerica line, where it meets Billerica's Lexington Road near the Middlesex...
Town Common
The Town Common is the green in Billerica Center, a roughly triangular park of one to two acres between Boston Road and Concord Road, with the First Parish...
St. Mary's Church
St. Mary's Church was the Roman Catholic church of Pinehurst, at 796 Boston Road on the east side of the road between Cook Street and Beaumont Avenue, with...
Great Buehler Pond
Great Buehler Pond is a small pond, under half an acre, in the north part of Bedford, in the part of old Billerica that became Bedford in 1729. With the...
Burton O. Sanford
Burton O. Sanford was a farmer on the Boston Road near Bridge Street, close to the Corner Bridge over the Concord River, who served on the Select Board from...
Shawsheen Woods
Shawsheen Woods is a 1990s subdivision off Cook Street in Pinehurst, on Shanpauly Drive and Neighborly Way. The "Definitive Subdivision, Shawsheen Woods,...
Harrington Road
Harrington Road is a short private way in East Billerica, about 320 feet long, running southwest from Baldwin Road near its junction with Salem Road. It...
Charles Cutler House
The Charles Cutler House stood on the east side of Treble Cove Road in the northwest part of Billerica, at what is now 210 Treble Cove Road. It was the...