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The Swift River is a river in
The Swift River is a river in Massachusetts
Massachusetts ( ; ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Maine to its east, Connecticut and Rhode ...
, United States. It has an east branch, a west branch, and a middle branch. It is a tributary of the Ware River. Part of it is dammed in the Swift River Valley to form the Quabbin Reservoir serving Boston and Eastern Massachusetts. Several towns were lost when the reservoir was constructed and filled.
Swift River Reservation 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 ima ...
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 400 books, of which the best known is '' The Devil's Arithmetic'', a Holocaust novella. H ...
with watercolor illustrations by Barbara Cooney, describes the flooding of the valley to create the reservoir.
See also
* Quabbin AqueductReferences
Rivers of Massachusetts {{Massachusetts-river-stub