John Eliot established here in 1651 a village of Christian Indians called Hassanamesit - "at a place of small stones." It was the home of James the Printer who helped Eliot to print the Indian Bible. — — Map (db m295848) HM
These four and one-half acres have never belonged to the white man, having been set aside in 1728 as an Indian Reservation by the forty proprietors who purchased the Praying Indian town of Hassanamesit. — — Map (db m93038) HM
Crossing the highway at this point is the Indian trail followed by the Reverend Thomas Hooker in 1636 when, with his invalid wife borne on a litter, he led a company of Massachusetts settlers to found Hartford, Connecticut. — — Map (db m93035) HM
He arrived in Hardwick about 1754 settling on a farm, now Upper Church Street. A lawyer, he was graduated from Harvard in 1732. Ruggles distinguished himself in the French and Indian War, thus becoming the highest ranked colonist of this time. He . . . — — Map (db m148232) HM
Dedicated to the Heroes who fell, and the Patriots who fought for
Union and Liberty
1861-1865
by their comrade Col. Louis E. Granger, U.S. Vols.
Cold Harbor
Reams Station
Antietam
Port Hudson
Cedar Mountain
Gettysburg . . . — — Map (db m148233) WM
South side Harvard erects this monument in grateful remembrance of her soldiers who gave their lives to their country in the war for the defence of the Union East side Allen, Edward M. - Co. G 36th Reg. Bigelow, Joseph H. - Co. H 1st . . . — — Map (db m66305) WM
Four previous church buildings have stood on this approximate site. The first meeting house was constructed in 1733 when the congregation first gathered. A new building was necessary in 1775 to accomodate the congregation's growth. The third . . . — — Map (db m66304) HM
Upper Panel Set off from Groton • Lancaster • Stow by petitions to the General Court • Incorporators • Simon Stone • Groton • • Thomas Wheeler • Stow Jonathan Whitney and Hezekiah Willard Lancaster The name Harvard was inserted in the . . . — — Map (db m66292) HM
South Panel In honor of Those of Harvard who loyally served their country and in memory of Edward - Enoch - Thomas PVT. Co. M., 101st U.S. Inf. 26th Div. A.E.F. Died of wounds received at Chateau Thierry July 12, 1918 North Panel . . . — — Map (db m66291) WM
Adin Ballou — Preacher, Author, Reformer, Philanthropist, Apostle of Christian Socialism, and Founder of the Hopedale Community. 1803–1890.
“Blessed are the Peacemakers.”
“Not disobedient to the heavenly . . . — — Map (db m1618) HM
Agriculture in North Central Massachusetts is deeply rooted in our history. That heritage is perhaps best symbolized with our connection to apples and an icon of American folk history - Johnny Appleseed, who was born in Leominster in 1774. In . . . — — Map (db m220702) HM
This giant red apple structure, which stands at 10 feet tall, is the largest apple sculpture of its kind in all of New England. It is large enough to hold an estimated 20,639 apples inside. The sculpture. was officially unveiled on Wednesday, July . . . — — Map (db m220701) HM
This is a descendant of the last surviving Rambo apple tree planted in Nova, Ohio, around 1840 by John Chapman (better known a Johnny Appleseed). John Chapman, born in Leominster, Massachusetts, on September 26, 1774, had a plan for the . . . — — Map (db m220703) HM
The Plantation of Nasheway embracing this and several adjoining towns was granted to a group of "Undertakers" in search of iron deposits, in 1644. John Prescott the first settler made a success of frontier farming under great difficulties. — — Map (db m48798) HM
Before the building of the center bridge road in 1800, the road from the center to the old common continued south from this point across the Neck Bridge, which was located 60 rods below the present center bridge. It is shown on the 1794 map as 173 . . . — — Map (db m137850) HM
Rowlandson rock is the site where captives such as Mary Rowlandson, her son, and others from Lancaster, spent their first night. The Indians holding them captive had just raided and burnt the Rowlandson Garrison and all of the buildings in town. . . . — — Map (db m299116) HM
Named for the Sawyers who owned mills here in the 18th century and the Carters who owned saw, grist and fulling mills here in the early to mid-19th century. — — Map (db m138828) HM
Nearby was the largest elm in New England, one of the many huge elms for which Lancaster was famous during the 18th and 19th centuries, located beside the Nashua on an old road called Lover’s Lane. Measurements in 1888: circumference at 5 ft. above . . . — — Map (db m31819) HM
The Folk Legend Started Right Here in North Central Massachusetts The popular image of Folk Legend Johnny Appleseed that comes to mind is of an eccentric fellow dressed in rag-tag clothes with a stewpot for a hat who spread apple seeds randomly . . . — — Map (db m220704) HM
Nearby as early as 1814 stood the Wickapickit Mill by 1870 it was the Phelps Saw and Grist Mill many bridges were built here in 18th and 19th centuries as this was the early mail road to Brattleborough but spring floods often took the bridges away — — Map (db m133363) HM
On the crest of George Hill, near by, is situated Rowlandson Rock where the captives from the Rowlandson garrison house passed their first night after the burning of Lancaster by the Indians February 10, 1675–76. — — Map (db m299115) HM
In the field nearby was situated the garrison house of the Rev. Joseph Rowlandson first ordained minister of Lancaster. During his absence on February 10, 1675-76 this garrison house was attacked and destroyed by the Indians. The inhabitants were . . . — — Map (db m299114) HM
Through this place passed General Henry Knox in the winter of 1775 – 1776 to deliver to General George Washington at Cambridge the train of artillery from Fort Ticonderoga used to force the British Army to evacuate Boston. Erected by the . . . — — Map (db m17929) HM
In Memory of the Minute Men
and Standing Company Who Marched From
This Spot on the Alarm of April 19, 1775
Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Denny
Minute Men
Seth Washburn, Capt. · William Watson, 1st Lieut. · Nathaniel Harwood, 2nd Lieut. · . . . — — Map (db m236530) WM
Dedicated to our fallen Warhorse Soldiers on 9 February 2009 Lieutenant Colonel Garnet R. Derby Sergeant Joshua A. Ward Private First Class Jonathan R. Roberge Private First Class Albert R. Jex Translator Jevan Ali Othman "You Will Never Be . . . — — Map (db m229177) WM
1775-1783 In memory of the men of Leominster who endured hardship and battle in the war of the American Revolution This tablet is erected by Captain John Joslin Jr. Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution 1910 — — Map (db m221580) WM
Jonathan "Johnny Ro" Roberge, a Leominster native was killed in action in Mosul, Iraq, on February 9, 2009. He served in the United States Army, and he was a tank driver. There were three men killed with him that day, Pfc. Albert Jex, Lt. Col. . . . — — Map (db m229173) HM
This memorial is dedicated
to honoring the memory of
all Leominster soldiers
who served with courage
for freedom and justice.
We must we can and will be free — — Map (db m135506) WM
in Leominster built 1775 taken down July 4, 1824 rebuilt for first town house This tablet presented to the town of Leominster by the Leominster Historical Society on the 175th anniversary incorporation Leominster 1915 — — Map (db m138081) HM
Jolin Chapman, better known as "Johnny Appleseed", was born in Leominster to parents Elizabeth and Nathanial
Chapman on September 26, 1774. They lived on what is now Johnny Appleseed Lane, very near this site.
Nathanial Chapman responded to the . . . — — Map (db m220707) HM
Here on February 16, 1851, Jonathan and Frances Drake participated in the rescue of the fugitive slave Shadrach Minkins. The case attracted national attention and the rebuke of President Millard Fillmore. Undeterred, abolitionists like the Drakes . . . — — Map (db m101543) HM
Town Pound
1816
Leominster has had an animal pound
since 1749
and at this site since 1816.
Stray animals were restrained here
until the owners claimed them
and paid their fine. — — Map (db m142183) HM
12-05-01 - 05-31-06 Sfc Daniel Hpetithory • Spc Matthew G. Boule • Cwo Erik A. Halvorsen • Capt. Benjamin W Sammis • Spc. Danel F. Cunningham • 1St Lt. Brian M. Mcphillips • Capt. Seth R. Michaud • Lcpl Gregory E. MacDonald • Sgt. Justin W. Garvey . . . — — Map (db m232838) WM
Here stood Mendon's first meetinghouse, built in 1668 and destroyed by Indians in 1676. Joseph Emerson, the minister, was an ancestor of Ralph Waldo Emerson. — — Map (db m48762) HM
In memory of the honored founders of Mendon 'the old mother town.' Settled 1663. Incorporated 1667. Eight towns are now located on her original territory. Near this spot Mendon's first three meeting houses were built."
Founders 1668: . . . — — Map (db m91558) HM
Mother Mendon
Mendon began as an eight-mile square tract purchased for twenty-four pounds from several Native American tribes in 1662. In 1663, fifteen families, mostly from Braintree and Weymouth, undertook the arduous task of creating this new . . . — — Map (db m195663) HM
Built in 1840, this Greek Revival Style three-story building named in honor of President William Henry Harrison was constructed in partnership between the townspeople and Gentleman Farmer Silas Dudley who donated the land and design for the . . . — — Map (db m195701) HM
Who fought in the French-Indian Wars 1755 - 1763 and its Minute Men who responded so quickly to the Lexington Alarm April 19, 1775 and its Revolutionary Soldiers who did their part in winning the war that gave us our freedom and independence 1775 - . . . — — Map (db m63959) HM
The Roll of Martyrs
Presented by
Austin Wood
John B. Rockwood Died at Newbern N.C. Nov. 24, 1863.
Patrick Wallace Died at Newbern N.C. Oct. 24, 1862.
Martin S. Howe Died at Morris Island S.C. Nov. 23, 1863.
Robert . . . — — Map (db m195655) WM
Mendon Historical Society
1896 - 1996
Dedicated to the Collection and Curatorship
of Historic Data and Artifacts Relating to
"Mothertown" Mendon and Daughters
May 18, 1996 — — Map (db m195664) HM
In Honor of those of Mendon who Served in
Korean Era Vietnam Era
( left plaque )
Barnes Daniel N. · Butler William W. · Carmody James · Closson Alfred · Coburn Donald E. · Cram Habner O. · Delana Rudolph L. · Devoll Robert B. · . . . — — Map (db m195696) WM
Mendon
In Honor of Those Who Served in
1917 The World War 1919
George M. Aldrich · George M. Barrows · Harold C. Barrows · Leslie M. Burr · Edmund Cedarholm · Albert S. Coleman · Moses M. Coleman · Albert I. Cromb · John J. Curley · William . . . — — Map (db m195698) HM
In Honor of Those Who Served in
1941 World War II 1945
Allegrezza, Aldo O. · Allegrezza, Nello A. · Anthony, Lewis L. · Barrows, Harold C., Jr. · Bell, Robert E. · ★Bessette, Raymond · Beyer, Edward D. · Blanchard, Alphonse · Bonetta, . . . — — Map (db m195699) WM
Mendon’s First Meeting House
— Built 1668 —
Destroyed by King Philip’s warriors
at the burning of the town in 1676
Rev. Joseph Emerson — its only minister
ancestor of Ralph Waldo Emerson
this tablet erected in the name of
the Mendon . . . — — Map (db m195660) HM
has been placed on the
National Register of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
Original building (Town House) 1853/54
Thomas Silloway, Architect
Rear Addition (District . . . — — Map (db m198132) HM
First Burial Ground in Millville
is owned by the Chestnut Street Meeting House
Most markers have disappeared through the
ravages of weather and time.
Few names of our first settlers buried here are known,
however, The memory of their . . . — — Map (db m192543) HM
Longfellow School
1850
Has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
Millville Historical
Commission — — Map (db m192459) HM
Main Street, once lined with stately elm trees, was drastically changed in the 1930s when the Elm Blight decimated hundreds of trees across the state. The tree-lined image of Millville was lost.
The south side, along the railroad, was once . . . — — Map (db m192456) HM
Standing at this point the visitor will view the sites of mills dating from 1727 through 1977, when the last mill was lost to fire. The Island in the Blackstone River was the site of the earliest mills in 1727. Here the first bridge crossing . . . — — Map (db m192461) HM
In Memory of
Veterans
Of All Wars
Town of
Millville
( back )
World War I
World War II
Korean Conflict
Vietnam
Desert storm
Iraq
Afghanistan — — Map (db m192458) WM
In 1916 the Village of Millville seperated from Blackstone and was incorporated as the Town of Millville. The new town successfully faced the challenge of self-governing itself for just a few years. Following the Great Depression of 1929 . . . — — Map (db m192539) HM
Samuel Thompson’s Gristmill Stone 1727
Discovered in the Year 1937
by
A. Frederick Anderson
Town Antiquary
Presented to Longfellow School
by
Robert A. Mcglaughlin
Agent
Milleville Municipal Finance Commission
( small plaque . . . — — Map (db m192463) HM
The Raceway crosses under Central Street on the southerly side of the Longfellow Municipal Center. The water moved through it from a west-to-east direction from the Blackstone River and discharged back into the river on its northeast bank. . . . — — Map (db m192540) HM
The tower is nine-feet four inches in diameter and approximately thirty feet high, with walls at the base twenty inches thick. It is constructed of fairly thin stones which appear to be the same or similar to the material in the bedrock on which it . . . — — Map (db m192460) HM
On February 3, 1787 on the field across the road, 23 New Braintree farmers joined Daniel Shays' rebels in an armed confrontation with the state militia. New Braintree was central to the larger rebellion of unpaid but heavily taxed revolutionary . . . — — Map (db m198522) HM
Somewhere within 1/2 mile
along the base of this hill
Capt. Edward Hutchinson and
his company were attacked
by Indians lying in ambush
Aug. 2 1675, and he and more
than one half of his men slain
or wounded. — — Map (db m311496) HM WM
Temperance House -1837- and
the New Braintree Cheese
Manufacturing Co. -1865- stood
adjacent until both were destroyed
by fire in 1880. The town hall
now occupies the rebuilt
cheese factory.
Erected by the youth
of New Braintree . . . — — Map (db m198524) HM
Sarah P. Rowlandson Born Sept. 15, 1669 Shot by Indians at Lancaster Feb. 10, 1676 Taken to Winnimissett Camp Died Feb. 18, 1676 — — Map (db m304345) HM
One mile to the southwest, off the North Brookfield Road, Edward Hutchinson’s company seeking a parley with the Nipmucs was ambushed by Indians August 2, 1675, and more than half were slain. Captain Hutchinson died from his wounds. Captain Thomas . . . — — Map (db m311802) HM
Erected
by the Town of
North Brookfield
In Honor of Her
Soldiers who Lost Their
Lives in Defense
of the Country
Against Rebellion
1861 – 65
1869
( south side )
James P. Coolidge · George S. Prouty · Lyman H. Gilbert · . . . — — Map (db m198663) WM
Korean Conflict Vietnam Era
North Brookfield Remembers Those Who Served
Korea
1950 1955
In Memoriam – Flamand, Paul H. · Letendre, Roger N.
Bartolo, Anthony J., Sr. · Bartolo Stanley H. · Balcom, Francis E. · Balcom Ernest G. · . . . — — Map (db m198554) WM
Dedicated to the Citizens of
The Town of North Brookfield
Who Devoted Themselves to the Cause of Freedom
And Served Their Country in the World War
Allaire Arthur F. · Allen Lawrence · Balcomb Charles M. · Barnes Charles F. · Barrett . . . — — Map (db m198555) WM
1941 1945
Forever Honored Forever Mourned
Dedicated to the Citizens of North Brookfield
Who Devoted Themselves to the Cause of Freedom
And Served Their Country in World War II
In Memoriam
Edward J. Crevier · Homer F. Forbush Jr. · . . . — — Map (db m198651) WM
Operation Desert Storm
Sally Aho · Matthew Berry · Thomas Bishop · Brien Brown · Daryl Brown · Bruce Coskie · Richard Dupre Jr. · William Emerson Jr. · James Avila, Jr. · Jonathan E. Brown · Thomas J. Comptois · Ryan Coughlin · Bruce P. Cummings · . . . — — Map (db m198653) WM
One mile westward Clara Barton, "the angel of the battlefield," was born in 1821. A volunteer nurse in the Civil War, she served the International Red Cross in the Franco-Prussian War, founded the American Red Cross and served as its president for . . . — — Map (db m48042) HM
Land for this burial site was set aside
sometime between 1724 and 1729, at the
request of Westborough's northern
proprietors. At the time, the closest burial
ground was located several miles south,
in Westborough's town center. The . . . — — Map (db m260387) HM
In the eighteenth century, an iron works, a fulling mill,
and a clothier's shop were among the industries along the
Assabet River where it flows under Main Street. In the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries came items as varied as
baby carriages, . . . — — Map (db m260418) HM
Main Street once was part of the old Boston Post Road. Colonists first used the Boston Post Road to carry mail between New York and Boston in 1673. The post riders followed Native American paths. The Boston Post Road was part of a network known . . . — — Map (db m257915) HM
The original Cold Harbor Brook Bridge was built during the Civil War era, when the stone-slab construction technique was common for short, town highway bridges. This one was unique for its use of quarried granite instead of the usual fieldstone . . . — — Map (db m256794) HM
In the early 1800s, this Greek Revival building, with the
Tuscan-columned porch, served as both a stagecoach stop and
post office on Boston Post Road. In 1813, Cyrus Gale opened
a general store and sold potatoes, grain, milk, and butter,
which . . . — — Map (db m260392) HM
Captain Cyrus Gale contributed $10,000 to the start of a public "free" library in 1868. Cyrus Gale Jr., the Captain's son, donated the land and $30,000 for the library building in 1894. The architect was Amos Cutting of Worcester, Massachusetts. . . . — — Map (db m257999) HM
Through this place passed General Henry Knox in the winter of 1775 – 1776 to deliver to General George Washington at Cambridge the train of artillery from Fort Ticonderoga used to force the British Army to evacuate Boston. Erected by the . . . — — Map (db m17938) HM
2 August 1990 —
From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when called, gone where ordered, and defended our nation with honor.
Solomon Ortiz . . . — — Map (db m253101) HM
In 1672 the Massachusetts General Court
granted John Brigham, a noted surveyor from
the Marlborough Plantation, 200 acres in
what is now Northborough. He was the first
permanent colonial settler in the area and
built a saw mill. This began a . . . — — Map (db m260390) HM
Mark “the Bird” Fidrych (1954-2009) was a
Major League Baseball pitcher for the Detroit Tigers.
He was popular with his fans for his antics on the field;
he “manicured the mound” by fixing cleat marks on the
pitcher's mound and often talked to . . . — — Map (db m260419) HM
Mary Goodnow who lived here with her parents was lame and unable to run to the garrison house for safety when the Indians attacked Northborough, August 18, 1707. A short path leads through the woods to her grave near the place where she fell. — — Map (db m48796) HM
In Honor of All
Who Served
Town of Northborough
World War II
1941 — 1945
Korea
1950 — 1955
Vietnam
1961 — 1975
( bronze plaques next to the memorial )
World War II
SSGT Charles A. Newton
B17 Heavy . . . — — Map (db m256791) WM
On April 30, 1745, construction of Northborough's first meeting house began on this site that was donated by Captain James Eager. Completed in 1756, the building measured 46 feet long and 36 feet wide and had 20 pews and an upper gallery. The . . . — — Map (db m257422) HM
Selected Stones
2 Reverend Peter Whitney, 1744-1816, second minister of Northborough. Whitney Street was named for him. The parsonage stood where 62 Whitney Street now stands.
3 Col. John Crawford, died in 1813. Crawford Street is named . . . — — Map (db m257416) HM
The original house was built in the late 1600s by Nathaniel Oakes. Sold to Northborough's first two ministers, Rev. John Martyn in 1747 and Rev. Peter Whitney in 1770, it became one of the first places for religious ceremonies. After a fire in 1780, . . . — — Map (db m260388) HM
PFC. Neil R. Ellsworth
U.S. Army Vietnam
Nov. 15, 1947 - April 13, 1967
(bronze plaque)
Ellsworth Square
P.F.C. Neil R. Ellsworth, Vietnam
November 15, 1947 - April 13, 1967 — — Map (db m256815) WM
