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3 unusual facts about Quabbin Reservoir


New England cottontail

Smaller populations exist in southern New Hampshire, Nantucket island, a part of Massachusetts near the Quabbin Reservoir, and some Boston Harbor Islands.

Prescott Town House

The building was built in 1838, serving as the town hall for Prescott, Massachusetts, a town that was unincorporated in order to make way for the Quabbin Reservoir in the 1930s.

The Puma Blues

U.S. Agent Gavia Immer (sharing a name with the common loon) is stationed by the U.S. military in a cabin in the woods of the Quabbin Reservoir in Massachusetts.


Ware River

In 1933 the Quabbin Aqueduct was completed, ready to transport water from the Quabbin Reservoir under construction.


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