ATHOL
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V02,
Page 849
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
ATHOL
, a township of Worcester county, northern Massachusetts, U.S.A., having an area of 35 sq. m
.
Pop
.
(1900) 7061, of whom 986 were foreign- born; "(1910 U.S. census) 8536
.
Its surface is irregular and hilly
.
The village of Athol is on Miller's river, and is served by the Boston & Albany and the Boston & Maine railways
.
The streams of the township furnish good water- power, and manufactures of varied character are its leading interests
.
Athol was first settled in 1735, and was incorporated as a township in 1762
.
It was named by its largest landowner Col
.
See also: - JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
See also: - MURRAY
- MURRAY (or MORAY), EARLS OF
- MURRAY (or MORAY), JAMES STUART, EARL OF (c. 1531-1570)
- MURRAY (or MORAY), SIR ROBERT (c. 1600-1673)
- MURRAY, ALEXANDER STUART (1841-1904)
- MURRAY, DAVID (1849– )
- MURRAY, EUSTACE CLARE GRENVILLE (1824–1881)
- MURRAY, JAMES (c. 1719-1794)
- MURRAY, JOHN
- MURRAY, JOHN (1778–1820)
- MURRAY, LINDLEY (1745–1826)
- MURRAY, LORD GEORGE (1694–1760)
- MURRAY, SIR JAMES AUGUSTUS HENRY (1837– )
- MURRAY, SIR JOHN (1841– )
, after the ancestral home of the Murrays, dukes of Atholl
.
See L
.
B
.
Caswell, Athol, Mass., Past and Present (Athol, 1899)
.
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