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The Acton Center Historic District encompasses the historic heart of the once-rural, now suburban, town of Acton, Massachusetts.The district includes properties on Main Street, Wood and Woodbury Lanes, Newtown, Concord, and Nagog Hill Roads, and has been the town's civic heart since its establishment in the 1730s.
All that remain today of the factory are the ruins of its dam and a few mechanical components. The site is in the Nashoba Brook Conservation Area in Acton, Massachusetts, along Nashoba Brook and the old Davis Road Dam. Visitors can access the site by following a marked path from the Davis Road parking area for the Nashoba Brook Conservation Area
Wetlands in Acton off of Massachusetts Avenue, in summer 2015. Acton is located at According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 20.3 square miles (53 km 2), of which 20.0 square miles (52 km 2) is land and 0.3 square miles (0.78 km 2), or 1.53 percent, is water.
The Exchange Hall is a historic Italianate style hall on Quimby Square, at the intersection of Main and School Streets in the village of South Acton, in Acton, Massachusetts. The 3 + 1 ⁄ 2-story wood-frame building was built in 1860 by James Tuttle, who ran a dry goods business. The third floor of the building was an open space used for civic ...
Back then, COVID rules at Arlington Cemetery on Memorial Day restricted visitors to family members with a special pass. While visiting her grandfather, Col. John Domenech, who died in 2006 ...
The main part of the tavern was built in 1732 as a home for Samuel Jones Jr. and his family. By 1750, the home had been expanded to become a tavern and general store.It is believed to be the first store in Acton and holds the distinction of being the town of Acton's longest established business.
Acton Memorial Library is a public library at 486 Main Street in Acton, Massachusetts. In 1889 William Allan Wilde (1827-1902), a Sunday school publisher and philanthropist [ 1 ] who was a native of Acton, donated funds to construct the library to memorialize Acton's citizens who served in the American Civil War .
In 1874, the population of the town was almost 1700. The town established its first newspaper The Acton Patriot and the residents of West Acton formed the first library The Citizen's Library. In 1890, the Memorial Library was completed and given to the town by William A. Wilde as a memorial to the Acton soldiers who fought in the Civil War.