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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.

AGA Gas

Listed in the Billerica personal property tax books at 1 Plank St in 2003.

Manning Manse

The Manning Manse is a saltbox farmhouse on the south side of Chelmsford Road in the western part of Billerica, set well back from the road as it was...

Webb Brook

Webb Brook is a brook of about a mile and a half in the south-east part of Billerica, a tributary of the Shawsheen River. It rises in wet ground near Handel...

Opening of the Boston and Maine Shops

The Boston and Maine Railroad's repair shops at North Billerica, known as the Billerica Shops, were the main locomotive and passenger car repair plant of...

Old Ditson School

The Pinehurst School had only been in operation a couple years before it was unable to cope with the massive influx of new students in Pinehurst and needed...

Overseer of the Poor

The Overseers of the Poor administered poor relief: support of paupers at the town almshouse (see Town Farm), aid to families in their own homes, and...

Town Bandstand

The 1969 Town Report claims the bandstand was erected in 1890, but primary sources at the time are sparse. In 1910, an appropriation was made to add lights...

Alice E. Myers

English teacher at Howe High School 1922-1923 (Huron A.B., Emerson College); left for Attleboro.

Pinehurst Playground

The Pinehurst Playground is the town playground and park at 795 Boston Road in Pinehurst, near the Burlington line, on the grounds of the Old Ditson School....

Billerica Industrial Track

The Billerica Industrial Track is a freight track in North Billerica, the surviving northern end of the old Billerica and Bedford Branch. It leaves the...

Castlewood East

Castlewood East is a neighborhood in East Billerica between Baldwin Road, the Shawsheen River and the Tewksbury line, laid out by Roberts Homes, Inc. The...

Hair Essentials

Listed in the Billerica personal property tax books at 258 Salem Rd from 2011 to 2012.

Meade Road

Meade Road is a street in South Billerica, in Wyman Heights, about 2,200 feet long. It leaves Partridge Road near Wyman Road and runs north and east past...

JPMorgan Chase

Listed in the Billerica personal property tax books at 35 Dunham Rd from 2006 to 2007.