Weir Village, Massachusetts

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Weir Village is a village on the west bank of the Taunton River in Taunton, Bristol County, Massachusetts. Also called The Weir, this village is located just before getting to the Mill River which is a small river that goes north to Lake Sabbatia to the north of Taunton. This is a fording place and one of the northernmost places along the Taunton River where navigable ships can pass. Traditionally a weir is where mills are located particularly on the west bank of the river and a few mills still operate to this day at the Weir Village. The Taunton Railway began in 1838 and has a junction at The Weir just north of Ingell Street. This junction point goes northwest to Attleboro, North northwest to Mansfield, North to Stoughton. It goes southeast to New Bedford, east to Middleborough, south south east to Newport via Fall River, and south to Somerset. The Taunton Branch Railroad is a growth of the Granite Railway which started as a means to bring quarried granite from Quincy quarry to Charlestown for the building of the Bunker Hill obelisk shaped monument commemorating the Battle of Bunker Hill, Charlestown during the American Revolutionary War. George Washington's troops had resisted the British thus bringing the American forces to victory and creation of the United States of America.

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