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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 ...
Belton is a small village and civil parish in the North West Leicestershire district of Leicestershire, England. The village is located approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) northwest of the town of Shepshed , 5.5 miles (8.9 km) west-northwest of Loughborough , and 6 miles (9.7 km) northeast of Ashby-de-la-Zouch .
At Belton there is a left exit for the Belton Woods Hotel, country club, and golf course. The National Trust Belton House is to the east. The road used to pass through Belton, to the left but is bypassed. Syston is now bypassed to the east. The road takes a shorter route through Barkston, passing The Stag and the BP Barkston Service Station ...
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.
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.
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Route 140 is a 107.76-mile-long (173.42 km) north—south state highway which passes through Bristol, Norfolk and Worcester counties in Massachusetts.The highway follows a southeast-northwest trajectory, running from U.S. Route 6 (US 6) in New Bedford just north of Buzzards Bay northwest to an intersection with Route 12 in Winchendon, a few miles south of the border with New Hampshire.