While doing some research on another topic today I came across an online copy of an old Massachusetts state document detailing the history of Boylston. It speaks twice of a spur of the NH's Agricultural Branch that was built from Clinton to Boylston (perhaps what is currently West Boylston) in 1856 and abandoned in 1886. I've looked for traces of it on topo maps dating back to 1892, but I can't find any signs of where the ROW was. Much of Boylston and West Boylston were inundated by the creation of the Wachusett Reservoir in 1903, but I should think there must be something extant somewhere above water. Does anyone know anything about this? Talk about obscure!
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Agricultural Branch Spur to Boylston, Mass.?
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