{"product_id":"westford-the-westford-league-of-women-voters-9780738556574","title":"Westford","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book about Westford describes the effect of the mills'' demise in the 1950s, and chronicles the town's recent development into a very appealing bedroom community for workers in Boston.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom its incorporation in 1729 through the late nineteenth century, Westford, Massachusetts, was a farming community sparsely populated by families of English ancestry. But in the first years of the twentieth century, a significant change occurred in Westford when mills that had opened in the town''s Forge Village and Graniteville sections began to recruit workers from Russia, Poland, England, Ireland, Scotland, Italy, and Canada. Westford depicts what the arrival of the mills and the mill workers meant to the town and its evolution in the twentieth century. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e The Westford League of Women Voters, Ellen Harde, Beth Shaw\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0738556572\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780738556574\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Arcadia Publishing (SC)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.40w x 0.40d","brand":"The Westford League of Women Voters","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43925794914559,"sku":"9780738556574","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_daa1105e-d406-49df-a5e9-16b0a440d7b2.jpg?v=1681079401","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/westford-the-westford-league-of-women-voters-9780738556574","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}