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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.
Old Ditson School
The Pinehurst School had only been in operation four years before it was unable to cope with the massive influx of new students in Pinehurst and needed...
Mixon Brook Road
Mixon Brook Road is a short street in Pinehurst near the Burlington line, in the Riverbank Terrace neighborhood. It runs south-southeast for about 770 feet...
Watts House
The Watts House stood at 39 Andover Road in Billerica Center, on the south side of the road a short walk east of the Common. It was an Italianate house of...
Shady Hill Conservation Land
The Shady Hill Conservation Land is a wooded tract of town conservation land at the northwest end of Nuttings Lake, behind the cottage streets of Nuttings...
Beaver Pond
Beaver Pond is the name used here for the beaver pond in Vietnam Veterans Park in West Billerica, a pond of a few acres on the outlet brook of Winning Pond,...
Ma Newman's
Variety store, later restaurant and cafe, at the corner of Boston Road and Grove Street in Pinehurst, at Maurice Newman's Store. Maurice P. Newman bought...
George P. Elliott House
The George P. Elliott House stood on the east side of Boston Road south of the Center, on land that is now part of the Shops at Billerica. It was the home...
Lowell & Suburban Street Railway
The Lowell & Suburban Street Railway built the first electric street railway in Billerica, from Lowell to North Billerica and then across The Fordway to...
Smallpox Outbreak of 1811
The Smallpox Outbreak of 1811 was the best documented epidemic of the disease in Billerica, and the last. It broke out in the north part of the town in the...
Jackson Wright House
The Jackson Wright House is a small two-story dwelling with an attached wheelwright's shop on the south side of the Billerica Common, at 6 Cummings Street....
Town Meeting
Billerica is governed by a representative town meeting, its legislative body. In 1954 the annual town meeting was asked to petition the General Court for...
Catherine's Estate
Catherine's Estate is a 1980s neighborhood in South Billerica on Francis Road and Frankay Lane, north of Hattie Lane and west of Nuttings Lake. It was laid...
Gray Street Bridge
The Gray Street bridge carries Gray Street over the Lowell line of the railroad in East Billerica, within the Richardson's Mill local historic district....
Charles A. Ranlett
Charles Augustus Ranlett was born in Augusta, Maine, on August 9, 1804, the son of Charles Ranlett, from Epping, New Hampshire, and Abigail Low of...