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WESTBORO , a township of Worcester county, Massachusetts , U.S.A., about 12 M. E. of Worcester. Pop. (189o) 5195; (1900) 5400 (1127 being foreign-born); (1905, state census ) 5378; (1910) 5446. Westboro is served by the Boston & Albany railway and by interurban electric lines. Area, about 22 sq. m. It has a public library, which has belonged to the township since 1857; and here are the Lyman School for Boys, a state industrial institution (opened in 1886 and succeeding a state reform school opened in 1846), and the Westboro Insane Hospital
Insanity . There are manufactures of boots and shoes, straw and leather goods, carpets, &c. Westboro was the birthplace of Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton
settlement
part
of Harvard College, made in 1659 and revoked in 166o by the General Court of Massachusetts ). In 1717 this part
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