The history of Middleborough is a history of its numerous villages. Like other geographically large towns, Middleborough developed a number of small communities that provided their earliest residents with needed services such as mills, schools, churches and cemeteries. These villages ranged in size from Middleborough Four Corners which by the 1850s had emerged as the municipal, commercial, industrial and social center of the town, to smaller village centers like Titicut, Eddyville, Rock and South Middleborough. Using historical images from the extensive collections of the Middleborough Historical Association as well as from town residents, Middleborough explores the town's evolution from its earliest foundation through the mid-twentieth century.