About Southborough

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If you live in Southborough, chances are that quite often you'll find yourself driving across or past a reservoir in your comings and goings around town. These tree-ringed reservoirs, complete with rock outcroppings, even a small island, here or there, do much to create the town's image as a quiet pastoral place. But, beyond enhancing the aesthetics, these several bodies of water and the aqueduct represent a major turning point in the town's history. The taking of land for their construction in the late 1800s-nearly 2,000 acres in all-changed the character of Southborough's four villages permanently. As town historian Richard Noble put it, they would "forever alter" the town. Here's why that statement is true.

From its earliest days as "Stony Brook," as this southern portion of the new town of Marlboro was known in the late 1600s, through its separation as a town of its own on July 17, 1727, and continuing into the first two centuries of its existence, Southborough, like its neighbors, was primarily a farming community. Yes, there were the necessary saw and grain mills, even an iron works, but most of its inhabitants made their livings tilling the soil, cultivating their orchards, or tending their dairy herds.
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