Westford, Massachusetts
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Westford, a suburb of Lowell, is a town whose residents enjoy an excellent quality of life and a rich agricultural history. With a population hovering around 21,000, Westford serves primarily as a bedroom community about 30 miles northwest of Boston. Westford has retained its rural charm in a beautiful setting of green hillsides, plentiful apple orchards, and clear streams, yet commuters have easy access to several metropolitan areas.
Incorporated as a town in 1729, Westford began as an agricultural community, and dairy farming continued to support the economy well into the 20th century. During the Industrial Revolution, Westford became known for its woolen mills, most notably for The Abbot Worsted Company that produced worsted yarn at two town sites from 1855 to 1956. Today, many local orchards still produced apples and peaches, and farms grow strawberries in season. To celebrate the town’s agricultural past, each year the town hosts two festivals: an Apple Blossom Festival in May with a parade and the crowning of an apple blossom queen, and a Strawberry Festival in June with a craft fair and plenty of strawberry shortcake.
Newer housing developments in Westford spread outward from the Center Historic District. With five of the town’s original villages listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the town center prides itself on the many well-preserved homes from the colonial period onward. To serve its residents, Westford offers an active community center and recreation department, an excellent library, and two beaches on spring-fed ponds. The Nashoba Valley Ski Area is also in town, providing downhill skiing and snow tubing in winter and swimming lessons and children’s camps in summer.
Westford Public Schools, consisting of 5120 students, is a strong district preK-12. The system has three primary elementary schools (K-2), three upper elementary schools (3-5), two middle schools, and the high school, Westford Academy. Westford Academy was originally founded in 1794 and has built new facilities several times as it expanded.
Westford also hosts East Boston Camps, a program on town land originally founded in the 1930s as an opportunity for children from Boston to experience a rural camp environment. Now the program provides both day and overnight camps for a diverse group of close to 350 boys and girls, ages 6-14. The Camps also hosts a weeklong Senior Picnic and Senior Camp and each year invites Westford's 5th graders free of charge for a weeklong nature day camp in thanks to the Westford community.
Sources:
http://www.westfordma.gov/Pages/index
http://www.westford.com/
http://www.westford.mec.edu/
http://www.ebcwestford.net/history.php
http://www.skinashoba.com/summer/index.html
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