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| | Early Industrial Period (1831-1872) |
 | | The line of Main Street/Route 117, by 1830 increasingly called the Great Road, was heavily traveled as one of the main east/west routes for wagons, coaches, mail, and for cattle and turkey drives to and from summer pastures in north central Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire. |
 | | In 1866 the Agricultural Branch of the Boston, Clinton and Fitchburg line from Northborough to Sterling was built through the southwest corner of Bolton. |
 | | Farmers could take their milk by wagon to the milk house on the Boston, Clinton, and Fitchburg line at the southeast corner of town, for instance, where it was picked up in the evening, and the empty milk cans returned on the next morning train. |
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