Editing Millville, Massachusetts (section)

== History ==
[[File:Millville Lock MA.jpg|thumb|left|Millville Lock, Blackstone Canal]]
Millville was first settled in 1662, and officially incorporated in 1916 by division from [[Blackstone, Massachusetts]] (which had itself originally been part of [[Mendon, Massachusetts|Mendon]]). This region was originally inhabited by the [[Nipmuc]] people.

Millville is in the [[Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor]] and has a well-preserved lock which was used on the [[Blackstone Canal]] in the early 19th century. It also has a historic Friends Meetinghouse. In the first two decades of the 20th century, baseball great [[Gabby Hartnett]], born in [[Woonsocket, Rhode Island]], grew up in Millville, played youth baseball in the [[Blackstone Valley]] League, and played for the [[Chicago Cubs]], beginning in 1922.<ref name="milltown">{{cite book|last=Murphy|first=James A|title=From a Mill Town to Cooperstown, the story of Gabby Harnett|publisher=Exposition Press|location=Smithtown, NY and Florida|date=1983|isbn=978-0-682-49991-0|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/gabbyhartnettsto00murp}}</ref> It has recently been discovered that the town's population in the early 1900s until around 1980 was almost 98% Irish Catholic.{{Citation needed|date=July 2011}} A [[Swedish people|Swedish]] population evidently settled here, and a local cemetery in [[Uxbridge, Massachusetts|Uxbridge]] was their burial site, Norden cemetery, near the Millville line.