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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.
Samuel Manning
Samuel Manning, son of William Manning of Cambridge, was born on July 21, 1644. On November 9, 1662 he bought the grant of the late Thomas Hubbard; the...
Brown's Corner (Shopping Plaza)
Not to be confused with Brown's Corner, the intersection of Boston, Pollard, and Floyd. Frederic and Louise Brown owned a house on Salem Road, and used...
Salem Road
Salem Road runs from Boston Road at the Corner in North Billerica east and southeast past Pond Street, Gray Street, Andover Road and Pattenville to the...
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...
New Penn Motor Express
Listed in the Billerica personal property tax books at 28 Sterling Rd from 2003 to 2023.
Michael Hayes
Michael Hayes (about 1819 to 1896) was a farmer in West Billerica who owned the old Asa Hill farm on what is now West Street for twenty-six years, and for a...
Joseph Feree Talbot House
Joseph Feree Talbot was a nephew of Charles P. and Thomas Talbot. He was born in 1867 in Georgetown, Texas, and moved to Billerica with his brother to try...
New Exchange Network
Listed in the Billerica personal property tax books at 101 Bldg 6 Billerica Av from 2012 to 2014.
Talbot School Principal
Principal of the Talbot School in North Billerica, built in 1901. It opened as the grammar school for North Billerica (grades 7 and 8 under the principal,...
Treble Cove Road Bridge over Route 3
The bridge was built in 1953 for the relocated U.S. Route 3, which the state laid out through Billerica in 1952 and 1953 as a four-lane divided highway with...
Billerica and Bedford Narrow-Gauge Railroad
The Billerica and Bedford Railroad was a two-foot gauge railroad that ran 8.63 miles from the Boston and Lowell station at North Billerica south through...
Sprague Brook
Sprague Brook is a brook of North Billerica, west of the Concord River. It rises near Boston Road at the foot of Rangeway Road, close to the west end of...
Rangeway Town Forest
The Rangeway Town Forest is a town forest of about 25 acres in North Billerica, on the west side of the Rangeway Road where the Old Middlesex Turnpike...
Incorporation of Billerica
Billerica grew out of Shawshin, a tract of wilderness on the Shawshin and Concord rivers that the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony granted to...