Wachusett Mountain is a ski resort in located on Mount Wachusett in the towns of Princeton and Westminster in Worcester County, Massachusetts. It has 25 trails serviced by 8 ski-lifts, including 3 high-speed chairlifts and 3 children-friendly magic carpet lifts, 1 Triple Chairlift and also has 1 Pony Lift (rope tow).Wachusett Mountain appeals mostly to skiers from Boston and Worcester, as it provides a weekend shuttle service to and from a MBTA commuter stop in nearby Fitchburg, Massachusetts.Wachusett Mountain has 100% snow-making capacity. Additionally, Wachusett Mountain has night-skiing on most of its trails.HistoryThe first ski trails were cut into Mount Wachusett by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1934 and 1937. Those trails were called Pine Hill Trail and Balance Rock. Today skiers can still ski down the upper and lower half of Balance rock. The middle section closed in the 1980s. During World War II, the 10th Mountain Division trained at Wachusett. There is now a plaque at the summit commemorating this. The first lifts installed were a T-bar in 1960 (the Oxbow T-Bar) and in 1962 (the West T-Bar). At the time, the West T-Bar was the longest T-bar in New England, measuring a total of 3800ft.
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The Ahijah Wood House is an historic house at 175 Worcester Road in Westminster, Massachusetts. The two story brick Federal style house was built in 1795, and is a rare example of a Federal period house with a hipped mansard roof. The main facade is five bays wide, with first-floor windows set in segmented-arch openings with small-paned transom windows above. Wood's father Nathan was the first colonial settler in what is today Westminster. Ahijah Wood's son Aaron, who succeeded to the property, was a prominent local church member and politician.The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987 (where it is incorrectly listed at 174 Worcester Road).