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The Swift River is a river in 
The former Academy at Swift River was located in Plainfield, Massachusetts. It is now a drug addiction treatment facility.
''Letting Swift River Go'', a
The Swift River is a river in Massachusetts
Massachusetts (Massachusett language, Massachusett: ''Muhsachuweesut assachusett writing systems, məhswatʃəwiːsət'' English: , ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous U.S. state, state in the New England ...
. It has an east branch, a west branch, and a middle branch. It is a tributary of the Ware River
The Ware River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed April 1, 2011 river in central Massachusetts. It has two forks, its West Branch, which begins in Hubbardston, Massa ...
. Part of it is dammed in the Swift River Valley
Swift or SWIFT most commonly refers to:
* SWIFT, an international organization facilitating transactions between banks
** SWIFT code
* Swift (programming language)
* Swift (bird), a family of birds
It may also refer to:
Organizations
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to form the Quabbin Reservoir serving Boston and Eastern Massachusetts. Several towns were lost when the reservoir was constructed and filled.
Swift River Reservation
The Swift River Reservation is a open space preserve located in Petersham, Massachusetts, United States. The property, named after the East Branch of the Swift River (a tributary of the Ware River), is managed by the land conservation non-profit ...
is located along the east branch.
The former Academy at Swift River was located in Plainfield, Massachusetts. It is now a drug addiction treatment facility.
''Letting Swift River Go'', a picture book
A picture book combines visual and verbal narratives in a book format, most often aimed at young children. With the narrative told primarily through text, they are distinct from comics, which do so primarily through sequential images. The images ...
by Jane Yolen
Jane Hyatt Yolen (born February 11, 1939) is an American writer of fantasy, science fiction, and children's books. She is the author or editor of more than 350 books, of which the best known is ''The Devil's Arithmetic'', a Holocaust novella. He ...
with watercolor illustrations by Barbara Cooney
Barbara Cooney (August 6, 1917 – March 10, 2000) was an American writer and illustrator of 110 children's books, published over sixty years. She received two Caldecott Medals for her work on '' Chanticleer and the Fox'' (1958) and ''Ox-Cart ...
, describes the flooding of the valley to create the reservoir.
See also
* Quabbin AqueductReferences
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