Scope and Content: The Metropolitan District Water Supply Commission was created for the purpose of extending and increasing the water supply to the Massachusetts metropolitan water system (St 1926, c 375).  The commission was authorized to take property in the watersheds of the Swift and Ware rivers to develop the Swift River Reservoir, renamed Quabbin Reservoir, Oct. 1932.  Preparation for construction of the reservoir included disinterment, transfer, and reburial from cemeteries in part of the area to be flooded (Swift River Valley, towns of Dana, Enfield, Greenwich, Prescott, also New Salem, Petersham) to the Quabbin Park Cemetery (QPC) or other locations.  Photographs provide evidence of the original gravesite and marker prior to removal.
Arrangement: In three subseries
Notes: Transferred to Archives from Dept. of Conservation and Recreation, Sept. 2005 (2005/36) Copied at Archives from originals transferred from Metropolitan District Commission, 1980 (1980/185), and placed offsite (John E. Allen, Inc., Park Ridge, N.J.) in 1991. Transferred to Archives from Metropolitan District Commission, 1980 (1980/185)
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