| March in Millbury History Submitted by Kendall and Janet Dumas |
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| 12 March 1761 At 2:10 A.M., an earthquake was felt lasting two minutes. 15 March 1899 A Worcester Consolidated Railway trolley, on its evening route to Bramanville, jumped its tracks while crossing the McGowan/Gowing Bridge. The car fell into the Blackstone River, killing the motorman and a passenger, Maurice Walsh, of Millbury. 17 March 1890 Two Millbury boys, Dexter and Walter Rogers, made a remarkable journey across the continent on high- wheeled bicycles. They rode these “penny-farthings” from Plymouth Rock to San Francisco, a distance of about 3,900 miles. 20 March 1882 It was voted that the Town ask the State Legislature to extend to women, who were citizens, the right to hold town offices and to vote in the town elections as did the male citizens. 27 March 1828 The first shovelful of earth in Millbury was overturned to begin construction of the Blackstone Canal. The canal operated from 1828 until 1848 and connected Worcester to the ocean in Providence, RI. There were eight locks in Millbury (the most on the entire canal route) to lower and raise the canal boats on their trips. |
