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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.
Monday, May 27: The Lakeville Historical Commission will host its annual Memorial Day observance starting at 10:30 a.m. with remarks in front of the Veterans’ Memorial Stone at the fire station ...
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.
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.
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 .
Darren Boykin died in 2019 after officers in Texarkana, Texas arrested him as a suspect in a series of petty thefts. Video has been released in the death of a 23-year-old man who died in police ...
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The Isaac Davis Trail, also known as the Acton Trail, is an historic 6-mile (9.7 km) trail running east–west in the towns of Acton and Concord, Massachusetts.The trail was significant in 1775 when it was used by Captain Isaac Davis and the Acton Minutemen to march on Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord. [2]