The Enfield Overlook in Ware, Massachusetts, with a view of what used to be the town of Enfield and is now part of the Quabbin Reservoir. In the early 1900s, four western Massachusetts towns ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For Jane Peirce, the cataclysmic flooding and massive displacement of thousands of people that turned the Swift River Valley into ...

Though it’s located in Western and Central Massachusetts, most of the water from the Quabbin Reservoir flows to the Boston area. Those around the Quabbin’s 412 billion-gallon body of water don’t have ...

BELCHERTOWN — Old Enfield Road once took travelers to Enfield, Massachusetts, one of four towns that disappeared in the 1930s, making way for Quabbin Reservoir. Today, a stretch of Old Enfield Road ...

Quabbin Reservoir in western Massachusetts is one of the largest unfiltered water supplies in the U.S., according to the state. It is a primary source of high quality water for Boston through the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Quabbin Reservoir looking north from the Quabbin Visitors Center in Belchertown. They aren’t your typical ghost towns. In ...

Running dry: Nearly 3 million people in eastern Massachusetts rely on the Quabbin Reservoir — located just east of Amherst — for their drinking water. But keeping the reservoir clean and healthy falls ...

ORANGE, Mass. (WWLP) – The Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) announced that three parcels of privately owned land in Massachusetts will now be protected under its Land Protection Program ...