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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.
Helen M. Davis
Tufts College graduate who taught fifth grade at the Pinehurst (Ditson) School from 1934 and was transferred to the high school in 1936, where she taught...
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...
Jones' Corner
Jones' Corner, the intersection of Salem Road and Pollard Street, was one the three most well-known corners (along with Brown's Corner and Mason's Corner)....
Mitchell Boys' School
Professor Moses Campbell Mitchell founded the Mitchell Military Boys School on Martha's Vineyard, but moved to Billerica at the corner of Boston and Andover...
Radcliffe Road
Radcliffe Road is a residential street in East Billerica, in Castlewood East. It runs a little under half a mile from Charlesgate Road south across Chatham...
4 Seasons Towing and Recovery
Listed in the Billerica personal property tax books at 313 Boston Rd and 56 Sullivan Rd from 2012 and still listed in 2024.
RWE Schott Solar
Listed in the Billerica personal property tax books at 4 Suburban Park Dr from 2005 to 2007.
Forte Iron Work Specialist
Listed in the Billerica personal property tax books at 77 Alexander Rd from 2019 to 2020.
Sartell Estates
Sartell Estates is a small subdivision on the east side of Baldwin Road in East Billerica, beside the Billerica Country Club, laid out on "Sartell Estates,...
C. P. Talbot Mill Worker Housing at 8 Lowell St
The C. P. Talbot Mill Worker Housing at 8 Lowell Street is a company house built in the early 1860s by C. P. Talbot and Co. for workers at the Talbot Mills...
Concord River Access
The Concord River Access is a stretch of town land of a little over twenty acres in North Billerica, between Boston Road and the west bank of the Concord...
Treble Brook
Treble Brook is a brook in the southwest corner of Billerica, near the Carlisle line. It rises in the wet ground near the south end of Treble Cove Road, by...
Boston and Lowell Railroad
The railroad through North and East Billerica is the main line of the Boston and Lowell Railroad, chartered in June 1830 and opened between Boston and...
War of 1812
The War of 1812 left little mark on Billerica's records. Henry Hazen, writing in 1883, found that "of the part which this town took in the War of 1812, and...