A town ended by legislation so a city sixty miles away could drink
A town in Worcester County that was disincorporated to build the Quabbin Reservoir. That sentence covers a lot of ground: Boston needed water, and the valley where Dana stood was chosen to hold it, so the town was ended by law and the ground it stood on was given over to the reservoir project. Dana was not the only one. The whole shape of central Massachusetts changed to fill a bathtub for a city sixty miles east.
Other places on the map within a couple of hours of here.
