Westwick Research Facility

Westwick Research Facility, a research center in Keenes, Massachusetts and the top leading facility in the region that conducts extensive analysis of soil samples from different regions of the world.

History
The Westwick Research Facility was built in 1902 by the philanthropist and chemist Sigmund Wadzinski and it was named after the home of his late colleague known as the Westwick Estate.

Then Dr. Michael Surkoff ran the facility in 1912 and was later found dead in his office a month later from a fatal heart attack.

A year later Matthias Wadzinski son of Sigmund Wadzinski became the director of the facility and oversaw the progress of the experiments that were being conducted there.

In 1922 Professor Thomas L. Duttin was the first person to discover a potentially important mineral in a soil sample from the Eshermek ruins.

Then in 1925, the Westwick Research Facility bought 5 acres of land to build additional buildings to use as disease research laboratories and also horticulture studies.

Exploring the Eshermek Ruins
In 1945 the Westwick Research Facility funded the archaeological expedition to the Eshermek ruins and sent their renowned scientist to the area to study the environment and collect samples of soil to determine what happened to the city.

What they found was astonishing because of the soil collected the people who lived their prior were using non-native clay to make their pottery and also reproducing it by unknown means.

Facilities

 * Westwick Medical Laboratory
 * Harriman Horticulture Building