Chester Massachusetts, Changing With The Times

Take a Field Trip with us to Chester Massachusetts, located between the branches of the Westfield River is considered a "Hill Town" whose original center was on a mountain top. Find out how the geographic center of Chester was completely altered and what the event was that caused this radical change. Then consider if your own community was equally effected sometime in the 19th Century, and if something similar is happening today!

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