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Lake Avenue/Quinsigamond Lake spans several neighborhoods in South Worcester and East Worcester. [2] Park Ave skirts the eastern edge of West Worcester. [2] The Edgemere neighborhood is primarily in neighboring Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. [2] The Arts District spans several neighborhoods in Central City. [3]
Worcester is the headquarters of the Providence and Worcester, a Class II railroad operating throughout much of southern New England. The city is a significant intermodal shipping hub for CSX's Boston Subdivision. Worcester is also the western terminus of the Framingham/Worcester commuter rail line run by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation ...
The development of triple deckers on Worcester's south side had reached the vicinity of the Worcester Academy grounds by the mid-1920s. A series of them were laid on along Providence Street (Massachusetts Route 122A), and built between 1926 and 1930 during the last phase of triple decker development. They were probably built by the Dworman ...
Map of Massachusetts House of Representatives' 2nd Worcester district, based on the 2010 United States census.. Massachusetts House of Representatives' 2nd Worcester district in the United States is one of 160 legislative districts included in the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court.
The 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story brick structure was built in 1874 for Franklin Wesson, one of the founders of Harrington & Richardson, a major Worcester arms manufacturer. It is roughly rectangular in form, but has a number of protrusions, most notably a three-story tower over its entrance that is capped by a steeply pitched slate hip roof.
On December 3, 1999, six firefighters were killed at the Worcester Cold Storage Warehouse fire. [5] The fire occurred at 6:13 p.m. in an abandoned cold storage warehouse at Box 1438, 266 Franklin Street. Six Worcester firefighters died while looking for two homeless victims thought to be trapped in the blaze. [6]
In Worcester, murage was raised to support work on the walls during three main phases, 1224 to 1239, 1252 to 1310 and 1364 to 1411. [27] Worcester was attacked again during the Second Barons' War in the 1260s, and the records suggest that some of the murage payments were used to repair damage caused by that attack. [24]