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Clinton is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 13,606 at the 2010 census. For geographic and demographic information on the census-designated place Clinton, please see the article Clinton (CDP), Massachusetts. ==History== Clinton was first settled in 1654 as a part of Lancaster. It was officially incorporated as a separate town on March 14, 1850,〔''(History of the Origin of the Town of Clinton, Massachusetts, 1653-1865 )'' by Andrew E. Ford〕 and named after the DeWitt Clinton Hotel in New York, a favorite place of the town's founders, Erastus Brigham Bigelow and his brother Horatio.〔 Clinton became an industrialized mill town, using the Nashua River as a source for water power. In 1897, construction began on the Wachusett Dam, culminating in the filling of the Wachusett Reservoir in 1908. This flooded a substantial portion of Clinton and neighboring towns, which had to be relocated. A noteworthy feature of the Boston metropolitan public water service was begun in 1896 in the Wachusett lake reservoir at Clinton. The basin excavated there by ten years of labour, lying 385 ft. above high-tide level of Boston harbour, had a capacity of 63,068,000,000 gallons of water and was the largest municipal reservoir in the world in 1911, yet was only part of a system planned for the service of the greater metropolitan area. Part of the Central Massachusetts Railroad line abandoned in 1958 includes a tunnel near Clamshell Road.〔http://newenglandoddities.com/2008/05/19/tunnel-vision/#more-62〕〔http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM5290_Boston_and_Maine_Abandoned_Tunnel_Clinton_MA〕 Railroads came to the town to serve this industry, including the Boston, Clinton, Fitchburg and New Bedford Railroad (Fitchburg Branch of the Old Colony Railroad), the Central Massachusetts Railroad, and the Worcester, Nashua and Rochester Railroad (the last two later merged into the Boston and Maine Railroad). By 1890, Clinton was noted for its manufacturing of carpets and woven wire.〔(Nason and Varney's Massachusetts Gazetteer, 1890, pp. 241–242 )〕 Clinton claims to have the oldest continuously-used baseball field in the world, Fuller Field, created in 1878.〔Boswell, Randy. "Claim to oldest baseball field 'in limbo'", ''Saskatoon Star Phoenix'' (from Canwest news wire), 6 October 2008, p.B5.〕 This challenges the claim by London, Ontario, which argues for Labatt Memorial Park, established as Tecumseh Park in 1877. This is disputed by Clinton because the London field has been flooded and rebuilt twice, including a reorientation of the bases, and there is doubt Tecumseh Field was in continuous use after the 1883 flood.〔Boswell, p.B5.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Clinton, Massachusetts」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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