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 Webster, Mass. 
 
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LAKE CHARGOGGAGOGGMANCHAUGGAGOGGCHAUBUNAGUNGAMAUGG 
 
 The Boundary Fishing Place 
 The Neutral Meeting Ground 
 
 The first settlers had hardly grown familiar with Plymouth and with Boston before 
 stories of fair lands and of a great lake came to win the restless ones inland. The Indian 
 Trails, which the white man afterwards followed, led to its borders and its refreshing 
 waters. 
 
 The story of these gentle-bred refugees in the new land, striving to rebuild their lives, 
 is one of the most interesting tales of New England. The Lake and the nearby plains 
 of Oxford were a part of the great Nipmuck country. South of the lake were the 
 Narragansetts and the Pequots; to the West the Mohicans. History tells us the name 
 means "the fishing place of the boundary." 
 
 Tradition has it that the great inland lake was the neutral ground of many Indian 
 tribes, their fishing and watering place. Its peculiar formation of peninsulas, little bays 
 and rugged shores, its clear waters, its sandy beaches for bathing, amply justify the 
 legends that come down to the people of to-day. 
 
 Samuel Slater, the father of the cotton manufacturing industry in America, had a 
 small mill in Pawtucket, R. I., and he became impressed with the lake as a location for 
 large industrial development and out of his investigations in 1811 grew the birth of 
 the broadcloth industry and the development of the cotton industry. To-day the great 
 Slater Mills are Webster's largest industry. 
 
 The canoes of the white man now float about where the redman paddled; many fine 
 cottages have been built; thousands of bathers flocks to the sandy shores in the Summer 
 and visitors are welcomed from all parts of the country. 
 
 The fame of "The Lake with the Long Name" has travelled far! 
 
 rUBLlSHED HY 
 
 LARCHAR & BRAXCH. Inc. 
 
 WEBSTER, MAfeH. 
 
BEACON PARK 
 
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 SAILING ON THE LAKE 
 

 THE NARROWS 
 
YOLANDE HOUSE 
 
VIEW FROM YOLANDE HOUSE 
 
POINT PLEASANT 
 
LONG ISLAND 
 
POINT BREEZE 
 
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 BATES GROVE 
 
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 COTTAGES, BATES GROVE 
 
VIEW FROM WAWELA PARK 
 
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 KILDEER. FROM THE NARROWS