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	Woburn, Massachusetts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Baldwin House, Woburn, Massachusetts with a stretch of the Middlesex Canal in foreground.
		Woburn was first settled in 1640 and was officially incorporated in 1642.
		Woburn is the birthplace of Anglo-American scientist Benjamin Thompson, a.k.a.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Woburn,_Massachusetts (530 words)

	WOBURN - LoveToKnow Article on WOBURN
		Woburn is served by the southern division of the Boston and Maine railway, and is connected with Burlington, Lexington, Reading, Stoneham, Wilmington, Winchester, Arlington, Boston and Lowell by electric railways.
		In the city area are several villages, including Woburn proper, known as the Centre, North Woburn, Woburn Highlands, Cummingsville (in the western part), Mishawum (in the north-east), Montvale (in the east) and Walnut Hill (also in the east).
		Woburn, first settled about 1638-1640, was incorporated as a township under its present name in 1642, and was the first township set off from Charlestown.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /W/WO/WOBURN.htm (592 words)

	Bedfordshire, EnglandGenWeb Project
		Woburn's 3,000 acre deer park was landscaped by Humphry Repton in the early 19th century, some of which was used for the Woburn (experimental) Farm, and contains an abundance of wildlife, including nine species of deer.
		Woburn Abbey has been home of the Dukes of Bedford for over 300 years and is now lived in by the present Duke's heir, the Marquess of Tavistock and his family, in the Family Rooms.
		Woburn Abbey was originally a Cistercian abbey and was rebuilt in the mid-eighteenth century.
	www.rootsweb.com /~engbdf/woburnabbey.html (1877 words)

	Toxic Legacy: The Lessons of Woburn, Mass. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Charles Ryan, a former reporter for the Daily Times Chronicle, broke the most important early stories in the Woburn toxic-waste tragedy: the discovery of contaminants in East Woburn's drinking water in May 1979, and the revelation that the city's leukemia rate was higher than should be expected for a community of its size.
		During this time I covered the Woburn toxic-waste lawsuit, a landmark federal case brought by eight families who accused industries of contaminating their water, causing illness and death.
		John J. Riley, the former owner of the Woburn tannery that was at issue in the toxic-waste case, has filed a libel suit against Jonathan Harr, author of A Civil Action, and against his publishers.
	home.earthlink.net /~dkennedy56/woburn.html (537 words)

	W. R. Grace & Co. - A Civil Action - Woburn
		According to the Woburn Times, EPA opted for a "more expensive cleanup" after Grace and members of FACE, a local citizens' group, raised concerns about the potential environmental impact of the original cleanup proposal.
		In 1982, eight Woburn families sued Grace and Beatrice Corp., alleging that seven children and one adult had contracted leukemia from exposure to Wells G & H water contaminated by Grace and Beatrice.
		The Woburn experience had a profound impact on Grace and resulted in the Company scrutinizing its environmental programs and practices and implementing new environmental, health and safety initiatives company-wide.
	www.grace.com /html/woburn.html (1116 words)

	A Chronological History of Woburn, Massachusetts
		The General Court met in session in the fall of 1642 and the Town of Woburn was incorporated on October 7, 1642.
		Woburn was fourth in the county for population and wealth.
		The population of Woburn jumped to 31241 by 1960.
	www.ultranet.com /~woblib/chrnlgy.htm (3585 words)

	Woburn, MA office, warehouse, retail and industrial commercial real estate
		Woburn opened its first truly public library in 1856, but the library’s history actually began over 200 years ago.
		Woburn Public Library is architecturally one of the country’s most significant community libraries.
		Of the estimated one-million-person population within a 10-mile radius of Woburn, 68.7 percent of those working are reportedly white collar workers; 36.4 percent have a college education; nearly 50 percent are of working age between 21 and 59, with 25.4 percent between ages 30 and 49.
	www.cummings.com /wob.html (428 words)

	Woburn, Massachusettes City History
		The incorporation of Woburn as a city was a slow process.
		Even in the early 1870's, the population of the Town of Woburn gave credence to the belief that in a few short years of continued prosperity, the town would have the required 12,000 inhabitants entitling it to become a city.
		Woburn voters accepted the charter on June 12, 1888 by the decisive vote of 966 to 32.
	users.rcn.com /woblib/ctyhis.htm (571 words)

	Woburn on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Isaac de Caus, Nicholas Stone, and the Woburn Abbey grotto.
		Woburn Postcard: Civil Inaction That uplifting John Travolta movie about suing polluters distorted the truth: government, not private industry, was mostly to blame for poisoning a small town's water supply.
		Woburn Man Arrested for Cocaine Trafficking in Public Housing Project, Reports U.S. Attorney.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/W/WoburnU1S1.asp (438 words)

	ATSDR - PHA - INDUSTRI-PLEX SITE, WOBURN, MIDDLESEX COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS
		Concerns about the impact of the Woburn environment on human health focused on the serious elevation is both total and male childhood leukemia incidence, as well as elevations in kidney cancer mortality.
		Along with Woburn Environment and Birth Study (WEBS), which was designed to address the concerns of the panel, the MDPH conducted an expanded case control study of childhood leukemia.
		Analyses of health outcome data within Woburn itself did not indicate that environmental contaminants in the public water supply had an adverse effect on the reproductive health of exposed subgroups of Woburn residents.
	www.atsdr.cdc.gov /HAC/PHA/industri/ind_p3.html (1437 words)

	TownOnline.com - Woburn Advocate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Woburn's Erin Murphy mixes it up with a Watertown player during a recent game.
		Amherst police are investigating the death of a University of Massachusetts student whose body was found off-campus early Sunday morning.
		The Woburn Tanners continued to roll through the Middlesex League with a convincing 26-0 rout of the...
	www.townonline.com /woburn (292 words)

	Brief History
		Wells G and H were developed by the City of Woburn in 1964 and 1967, respectively, in response to urban growth during the 1960's.
		These wells are located in a different aquifer and are not affected by contamination present in the study area of Wells G and H. Local records indicate that the water from Wells G and H exhibited high concentrations of manganese and iron, which resulted in unpleasant taste and odor.
		The RAMP's purpose was "to identify the type, scope and sequence of activities to identify and implement a remedial action(s) to mitigate the effects of the contaminants in East Woburn" (Camp, Dresser, and McKee, 1983).
	research.et.byu.edu /woburn/brief.htm (731 words)

	Woburn Signalling History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A new layout - Woburn was now in the basic form that it would be in for the next fifty years.
		A new interlocking, controlling both Woburn and Waterloo was brought into use in May 1953.
		The Woburn signal box now controlled the Gracefield Branch, which had been equipped with automatic signalling in 1968.
	www.trainweb.org /valleysignals/history/woburnhistory.html (475 words)

	Reason magazine -- April 1999
		Between tanneries and insecticide plants, Woburn was a veritable showcase of environmental disamenity, featuring arsenic, chromium, and other heavy metals as well as discarded heaps of animal parts from old tanneries.
		Also left unsued was Woburn's town government, almost certainly the most negligent party in sight: It had sunk the wells despite a vigorously worded engineering report saying the ground water was far too polluted to drink.
		The Woburn cluster was more impressive than most; some respectable sources found that it reached the realm of beyond-chance distributions, while others disagreed.
	www.reason.com /9904/co.wo.reasonable.html (1714 words)

	David Chesler's Woburn page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		"Woburn's Water Supply: Clean and Safe" a publication of the City of Woburn.
		The Woburn Public Library's greatest asset is its HH Richardson building, a National Historic Landmark.
		Woburn is listed in the Dumb Laws web site for its ordinance (since repealed) prohibiting standing while holding a drink, or carrying a drink, in bars.
	www.geocities.com /chesler.geo/Woburn (1283 words)

	Beyond A Civil Action, Event Timeline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Woburn Chemical Works builds one of America's largest industrial complexes: 90 buildings spread over 417 acres on what is now generally the Industriplex waste site, which is upriver from Wells G & H. John J. Riley Tannery is established near the Aberjona River.
		Woburn constructs sewer because of continuing pollution of Aberjona River and Upper Mystic Lake.
		State health officials order Woburn to remove manganese and iron from Wells G & H. The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Quality Engineering finds that Wells G & H are contaminated with several volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and the wells are closed.
	www.civil-action.com /facts/timeline.html (684 words)

	Woburn toxic-waste trial: Death and justice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		His clients were six Woburn families, all of whom had a child who had died of leukemia or who was being treated for the illness.
		East Woburn, that portion of Woburn east of Main Street (Route 38), is a low, swampy area that has been heavily industrialized for the past century.
		Mernin, a resident of East Woburn, died of leukemia in 1987.
	home.earthlink.net /~dkennedy56/woburn_trial.html (12394 words)

	Verizon has exit clause in Woburn deal - The Boston Globe
		Through language in its contract with Woburn, Verizon has three years to decide whether or not it has enough subscribers to make the service in Woburn financially viable.
		Verizon hasn't unveiled the pricing for its cable service in Woburn, but in Keller, Texas, the only city where the fiber-optic service is available, it charges $39.95 monthly for its expanded basic package, which includes 180 channels of TV and digital music and access to 600 video-on-demand choices.
		Under the terms of the Woburn franchise, which took effect Oct. 13, Verizon must begin offering cable to most areas of the city within one year.
	www.boston.com /business/technology/articles/2005/10/20/verizon_has_exit_clause_in_woburn_deal (675 words)

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		Then the news stories on toxic wastes in north Woburn and the contamination of the wells in East Woburn began appearing in the paper and he eventually decided to put in a letter to the editor seeking more information.
		Of those twelve, two live in west Woburn, two near the center, one in central square, one in north Woburn, and six in east Woburn, five of the six are clustered closely together in the Pine Street area of the city.
		They were not part of the required testing until this past year when the water in Woburn was tested shortly after a number of barrels of toxic wastes were discovered at the site of the proposed BandM train depot on Mishawum Road, about three-quarters of a mile north of the wells.
	www.northshoreonline.com /woburn/answers.htm (812 words)

	SCI Woburn: Building Social Capital (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		SCI Woburn unites dedicated volunteers and community groups to encourage active participation of ALL Woburn residents in the life of our community.
		We believe that Woburn is at its best when people know their neighbors, volunteer on community projects, and participate in our democratic system.
		SCI Woburn continues to grow and flourish while serving as a model for additional SCI sites currently being developed in the Boston area, the first of which is located in
	www.sciwoburn.org (230 words)

	Beyond A Civil Action, History of Pollution in Woburn, Massachusetts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Woburn residents frequently experienced problems with water quality and volume over the years and the city has had to change the location of its wells, its pumping equipment and its sources of supply several times.
		In April, the Woburn Times reported that a neighborhood committee was being organized to explore the problem and to attempt to close down Well G; in late August a group of East Woburn residents presented the Mayor with a petition protesting the inferior quality of their water.
		The agreement called for Woburn to purchase at least one-third of its water supply from the M.D.C. Construction of a water main connecting Woburn and the M.D.C. supply at Spot Pond in Stoneham was well underway when, in January 1975, a fire destroyed the M.D.C. pumping station at Spot Pond, interrupting the Woburn connection.
	www.civil-action.com /facts/keydocuments/tarrrpt.html (3647 words)

	Woburn, Massachusetts
		The establishment of this website is just one of the many efforts made over the past year to increase the professional and technological efficiency of your city services.
		Woburn is a city of 37,000 people with 13 square miles of area.
		Woburn enjoys a healthy commercial revenue base which helps to sustain a low residential tax rate.
	cityofwoburn.com (176 words)

	WOBURN - Make the discovery
		Set in a beautiful 3,000 acre deer park, with 10 species of deer roaming free, Woburn Abbey has been the home of the Dukes of Bedford for nearly 400 years.
		We have the award-winning Safari Park, the world renowned Golf Club (which boasts all 3 of its courses in the UK’s top 100 (Golf World, November 2004), the Inn at Woburn and the Woburn Abbey Antiques Centre, which is the largest outside London.
		Woburn is a special place full of history, ancient tales and beautiful objects.
	www.woburnabbey.co.uk (149 words)

	Woburn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		THE WOBURN ADVOCATE, under the direction of columnist Rick Friedman, sponsored a contest for Woburn's third graders.
		Shaun Dolan (Woburn High School '99 BU '03) has designed the logo that will be used to publicize and highlight the events planned to celebrate the millennium in Woburn!!!
		Woburn's third grade students have been rated in the top 5% of third grade students in Massachusetts based on their reading scores on the Massachusetts State Reading Examination.
	members.aol.com /lmn7414/woburn.html (799 words)

	Welcome To Ye Olde Woburn, Massachusetts... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Legends abound from Woburn - from stories of the first meeting with the Indians to haunted inns, to tales about the people who once lived, worked, and died there.
		Both families are from the Woburn area but did do a small amount of migrating.
		This an old family of Azorean descent that eventually settled into the Gloucester, MA area and were fishing schooner owners and fisherman alike.
	www.yeoldewoburn.net (506 words)

	Woburn Families - Settlers History And Lore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The original Cleveland located himself in Woburn a few years after its first settlement and became the progenitor of a numerous race.
		This was issued as a supplement to THE NEWS (Woburn, Mass.) on September 17, 1898.
		Taken from, "The History of Woburn, Massachusetts", this is the diary of a soldier during the French-Indian War during the year of 1758.
	www.yeoldewoburn.net /Families.htm (1240 words)

	Woburn Safari Park Bedfordshire UK
		Also Visitors can visit nearby Woburn Abbey (admission charged) with outstanding collections of paintings, furniture and antiques, with pleasure gardens andwhich is set in a beautiful 3,000 acre Deer Park, Woburn Abbey has been home to Dukes of Bedford for almost 450 years.
		Woburn Safari Park is approximately one hours drive from London, Oxford, Cambridge, Stratford, Birmingham and Leicester.
		The Woburn Safari Park in Bedfordshire England UK is one of the tourist attractions in the United Kingdom
	www.tourist-information-uk.com /woburn.htm (331 words)

	Woburn Bed & Breakfast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		These are the words Samuel Adams spoke to John Hancock that conveyed the pride felt by the Minutemen before the 1st skirmish on the Battle Green of Lexington which signified the start of the American Revolution.Lexingtonians continue to cherish its place in history as the "Birthplace Of American Liberty".
		Relax and enjoy the quiet harbor and ocean views at A Lady Winette bed and breakfast Cottage, a charming Victorian cottage nestled amongst gardens and greens facing historic Marblehead Harbor.
		The Hunt House Inn is a charming 1850 restored farmhouse with a barn in the King Philip Historic District of Sudbury, Massachusetts.
	woburn.rentalo.com /bandb.html (586 words)

	The Woburn Story - Conclusion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the actual Woburn case, Judge Skinner bifurcated the trial into three stages.
		In a trial plan like this, each party is limited to presenting evidence relating to the sub-issue under contention in a given trial stage.
		This process continues until either the plaintiffs have proven all of the elements necessary to establish their overall case, or all of the defendants are able to prove that they are not liable.
	cyber.law.harvard.edu /evidence99/woburn/theend.html (272 words)

	Open Directory - Regional: Europe: United Kingdom: England: Bedfordshire: Woburn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Woburn Abbey - Includes information about the abbey and its antiques centre, hotel, deer park, activities, stud and properties to let.
		Woburn Abbey Sculpture Gallery - Conference, entertainment, wedding and business venue set in the grounds of Woburn Abbey.
		The Woburn Rally - Details of this vintage and historical vehicle rally held at Woburn Abbey.
	dmoz.org /Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/England/Bedfordshire/Woburn (187 words)

	The Woburn Rally August 14th 2005
		Welcome to the The Woburn Rally August 14th 2005.
		So, another year gone already and the plans are now well under way for this years event.
		There are always however, changes going on behind the scenes and this year we will be concentrating on the administration side in the hopes of speeding up the Rally Control, and hopefully making life a little less stressful for the ladies than it has perhaps been in the past.
	www.hometown.aol.co.uk /thewoburnrally (322 words)

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