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Ayer is located on routes 2A, 110, and 111; it is one town away from both Interstate 495 and Route 2. Freight trains travel daily through Ayer over the tracks of the historic Stony Brook Railroad. The line currently serves as a major corridor of Pan Am Railway's District 3 which connects New Hampshire and Maine with western Massachusetts ...
Ayer is located in northwestern Middlesex County at (42.560033, -71.585321 The CDP occupies the center of the town of Ayer and is bordered to the west by the Devens CDP. Massachusetts Routes 2A and 111 pass through the village as Park Street and East Main Street.
The district's oldest building is one of these: built in 1868, it was originally located south of the tracks, and was moved to its present location opposite Pleasant Street in 1878. Ayer Town Hall stands near the eastern end of the district; it is a fine example of high-style Victorian Gothic architecture. [2]
On November 7, 2006, during the state elections, the second opportunity to vote on Devens disposition had only Harvard voting against the scenario with the towns of Ayer and Shirley supporting Devens as a town. Devens's disposition will now be determined by another disposition process or by the state legislature.
Ayer station is located in downtown Ayer, just south of Main Street (Route 2A/111) adjacent to the Ayer Main Street Historic District. The two-track Fitchburg Route mainline runs east-west, with two side platforms for the Fitchburg Line service bracketing the tracks. The platforms are low-level; the station is not accessible. [3]
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Efforts to make Devens the state's 352nd town failed on the local level in 2006. [11] As of 2018, Devens is "a regional enterprise zone and census-designated place in the towns of Ayer and Shirley, in Middlesex County and Harvard in Worcester County," (see Fort Devens (CDP), Massachusetts).
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