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The Washburn Square–Leicester Common Historic District encompasses the historic civic heart of Leicester, Massachusetts.It includes Washburn Square, as the town common is called; the buildings along its perimeter; and the properties along Main Street extending east along Main Street to its junction with Henshaw Street.
Leicester also held a leading role in Massachusetts' second great revolution, the coming of industrialization. As early as the 1780s, Leicester's mills churned out one-third of American hand cards, which were tools for straightening fibers before spinning thread and weaving cloth. By the 1890s when Leicester industry began to fade, the town was ...
Location of Barnstable County in Massachusetts. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Barnstable County, Massachusetts. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States. Latitude and longitude ...
Worcester, Massachusetts – Racial and ethnic composition Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race. Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic) Pop 2000 [54] Pop 2010 [55] Pop 2020 [56] % 2000 % ...
Route 56 is a north–south state highway running 20.1 miles (32.3 km) through central Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States.Its southern terminus is at Route 12 in Oxford and its northern terminus is at Route 68 in Rutland.
The Mount's main house was inspired by the 17th-century Belton House in England, with additional influences from classical Italian and French architecture. Edith Wharton used the principles described in her first book, The Decoration of Houses (1897, co-authored with Ogden Codman, Jr.), when she designed the house. She thought that good ...
Route 2A (Massachusetts Avenue) – Cambridge, Roxbury: Interchange: 135.028: 217.307: Exeter Street: Split of eastbound and westbound lanes into Stuart Avenue and Avenue of the Arts: 135.055: 217.350: I-90 west / Mass Pike west – New York: Eastbound exit and westbound entrance; exit 133 on I-90 / Mass Pike: 135.310: 217.760: Route 28 south ...
His homestead and main farm lay on both sides of Mulberry Street in Leicester and included the slope where the Friends' meetinghouse and cemetery would be located. [2] The first burial, that of John Potter, was in 1740. [3] A small meetinghouse was built on the property in 1741. [4] It was replaced with a larger meetinghouse in 1791.