Vine Brook

Vine Brook is a brook in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. According to the History of Bedford, Vine Brook is "an important tributary of Shawsheen River." The book also states it as an excellent source of water-power in the 17th to 19th centuries.

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Places of Interest

Highlights include Bacon-Gleason-Blodgett Homestead and Farley-Hutchinson-Kimball House.

Bacon-Gleason-Blodgett Homestead

Building

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The Bacon-Gleason-Blodgett Homestead is a historic house at 118 Wilson Road in Bedford, Massachusetts. Built about 1740, it is the town's only surviving example of a brick-end colonial-period house, with long association to a nearby gristmill.

Farley-Hutchinson-Kimball House

Historic building

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The Farley-Hutchinson-Kimball House is a historic house and barn at 461A and 463 North Road in Bedford, Massachusetts. The property consists of a house whose oldest portions date to c. Farley-Hutchinson-Kimball House is situated 2 miles northwest of Vine Brook.

Shawsheen Cemetery

Cemetery

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Shawsheen Cemetery is a historic cemetery on Great Road and Shawsheen Road in Bedford, Massachusetts. The cemetery is Bedford's second, opened in 1849 as its Old Burying Ground was filling up. Shawsheen Cemetery is situated 1½ miles south of Vine Brook.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bedford and Burlington.

Bedford

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Bedford is a town in Massachusetts with a population of 14,000. Carlisle is a town with a population of 5,000. A low population density gives the town a rural feel, and it's known for outdoor activities including hiking and biking.

Burlington

Town

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Woburn is a city in the Greater Boston region of Massachusetts with a population of 41,000. If you want to sound like a local, pronounce it "WOO-burn". Burlington is situated 3 miles east of Vine Brook.

Billerica

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Billerica is a city of 42,000 people in Massachusetts that is on the border between Boston’s inner suburbs to the south and the Merrimack Valley region to the north.

Vine Brook

Type: Stream
Description: tributary of the Shawsheen River in Massachusetts, United States
Category: body of water
Location: Middlesex, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

42.50843° or 42° 30′ 30″ north

Longitude

-71.25033° or 71° 15′ 1″ west

Elevation

95 feet (29 metres)

Open location code

87JCGP5X+9V

GeoNames ID

4953931

Wikidata ID

Q7932370

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Venetian—“Vine Brook” goes by many names.

Catalan: “Vine Brook”
Cebuano: “Vine Brook (suba sa Tinipong Bansa, Middlesex County, lat 42,51, long -71,25)”
Cebuano: “Vine Brook”
Venetian: “Vine Brook”

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Localities in the Area

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