Original sentence: The Quabbin's creation required the flooding, and thus the disincorporation, in April of 1938, of four towns: Dana (located in Worcester County), Enfield, Greenwich, and Prescott, as well as several smaller villages (all located in Hampshire County)
Edited sentence: The Quabbin's creation required the destruction and thus the disincorporation, in April of 1938, of four towns: Dana (located in Worcester County), Enfield, Greenwich, and Prescott, as well as several villages (all located in Hampshire County).The residents of the Swift River Valley were treated extremely poorly by the Commonwealth, and were displaced and left homeless by the greed and uncaring attitude of those in the government as well as Eastern Massachusetts