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Clinton (town), Massachusetts

Clinton, Massachusetts
Town
Clinton Town Hall
Clinton Town Hall
Official seal of Clinton, Massachusetts
Seal
Nickname(s): Clintonville (Original part of Lancaster) and clowntown
Location in Worcester County and the state of Massachusetts.
Location in Worcester County and the state of Massachusetts.
Coordinates: 42°25′00″N 71°41′00″W / 42.41667°N 71.68333°W / 42.41667; -71.68333Coordinates: 42°25′00″N 71°41′00″W / 42.41667°N 71.68333°W / 42.41667; -71.68333
Country United States
State Massachusetts
County Worcester County
Settled 1654
Incorporated 1850
Government
 • Type Open town meeting
 • Town
   Administrator
Michael J. Ward
 • Board of
   Selectmen
William Connolly
Mary Rose Dickhaut
David Sargent
Jim LeBlanc
Michael Dziokonski
Area
 • Total 7.3 sq mi (18.9 km2)
 • Land 5.7 sq mi (14.8 km2)
 • Water 1.6 sq mi (4.1 km2)
Elevation 366 ft (112 m)
Population (2010)
 • Total 13,606
 • Density 2,387/sq mi (919.3/km2)
Time zone Eastern (UTC-5)
 • Summer (DST) Eastern (UTC-4)
ZIP code 01510
Area code(s) 351 / 978
FIPS code 25-14395
GNIS feature ID 0618360
Website www.clintonma.gov

Clinton is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 13,606 at the 2010 census.

For geographic and demographic information on the census-designated place Clinton, please see the article Clinton (CDP), Massachusetts.

Clinton was first settled in 1654 as a part of Lancaster. It was officially incorporated as a separate town on March 14, 1850, and named after the DeWitt Clinton Hotel in New York, a favorite place of the town's founders, Erastus Brigham Bigelow and his brother Horatio.

Clinton became an industrialized mill town, using the Nashua River as a source for water power. In 1897, construction began on the Wachusett Dam, culminating in the filling of the Wachusett Reservoir in 1908. This flooded a substantial portion of Clinton and neighboring towns, which had to be relocated. A noteworthy feature of the Boston metropolitan public water service was begun in 1896 in the Wachusett lake reservoir at Clinton. The basin excavated there by ten years of labour, lying 385 ft. above high-tide level of Boston harbour, had a capacity of 63,068,000,000 gallons of water and was the largest municipal reservoir in the world in 1911, yet was only part of a system planned for the service of the greater metropolitan area.

Part of the Central Massachusetts Railroad line abandoned in 1958 includes a tunnel near Clamshell Road. Railroads came to the town to serve this industry, including the Boston, Clinton, Fitchburg and New Bedford Railroad (Fitchburg Branch of the Old Colony Railroad), the Central Massachusetts Railroad, and the Worcester, Nashua and Rochester Railroad (the last two later merged into the Boston and Maine Railroad). By 1890, Clinton was noted for its manufacturing of carpets and woven wire.


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