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==History== {{Multiple image | header = A Mill Village | align = left | direction = | total_width = 280 | perrow = 1/2 | image1= Brick Mill Forge.jpg | caption1 = The Brick Mill, 1826 | image2= Cotton Mill Apartments, Whitinsville Massachusetts.jpg | caption2 = Whitinsville Cotton Mill, 1846 | image3 = Whitin Machine Works Addition (tower), Whitinsville, MA.jpg | caption3 = Whitin Machine Works }} This village was originally [[Nipmuc]] native lands, and was first settled as part of [[Mendon, Massachusetts|Mendon]] in 1662. From 1662 to 1727 it was part of Mendon, then later it became part of [[Uxbridge, Massachusetts|Uxbridge]] from 1727 to 1772. In 1772 Northbridge finally became a separate town. The village's early name was "South Northbridge", before the Whitin family's rise to prominence. Col. John Spring led a militia training company from Uxbridge which fought in the [[American Revolution]]. Col. Spring was from the section that became South Northbridge. Today a visitor can see much of the original village, including the housing for workers and their families, churches, and the Whitin Community Center. The textile machine company and industrial village were written up as one of the [[Harvard University|Harvard]] studies of history in business.<ref name="whitin">{{cite book |last=Navin |first=Thomas R. |title=The Whitin Machine Works since 1831: A textile machinery company in an industrial village; Harvard case studies in business history |publisher=Russel and Russel |year=1969}}</ref> Whitin Machine, founded in 1831, became the largest manufacturer of textile machinery in the world before its closing in 1964. A 1936 [[Berlin Olympics]] champion backstroke swimmer, [[Alice Bridges]], then of Uxbridge, trained in the local gym pool (Whitin Community Center) in Whitinsville. The Whitinsville Savings Bank was involved in a precedent-setting case in the U.S., involving tort and contract law, known as "Swinton vs. Whitinsville Savings Bank (1942)". A real estate transaction two years earlier had failed to disclose [[termite]]s in a building.<ref name= "swinton">{{Cite web|title= Swinton Vs Whitinsville Savings Bank|publisher=lawnix.com|url=http://www.lawnix.com/cases/swinton-whitinsville.html|access-date=September 30, 2009}}</ref> {{clear|left}}
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