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Massachusetts Senate's Worcester, Hampden, Hampshire And Middlesex District
Massachusetts Senate's Worcester, Hampden, Hampshire and Middlesex district in the United States was one of 40 legislative districts of the Massachusetts Senate. It covered portions of Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, and Worcester counties. In the 2020 United States presidential election, the district was the only one in the state where incumbent President Donald Trump won. The district was last represented in the State Senate by Anne Gobi of the Democratic Party before it was abolished following 2021 redistricting. Towns represented The district includes the following localities: * Ashburnham * Ashby * Athol * Barre * Brimfield * Brookfield * Charlton * East Brookfield * Hardwick * Holland * Hubbardston * Monson * New Braintree * North Brookfield * Oakham * Palmer * Paxton * Petersham * Phillipston * Rutland * Spencer * Sturbridge * Templeton * Wales * Ware * Warren * West Brookfield * Winchendon Senators * Robert D. Wetmore * Stephen Brewer * Anne Gobi, 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013 Map Worcester, Hampden, Hampshire And Middlesex District Massachusetts Senate DC10SLDU25008 001
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Charlton, Massachusetts
Charlton is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 13,315 at the 2020 census. History Charlton was first settled in 1735. It was established as a District separated from Oxford on January 10, 1755, and became a Town on August 23, 1775 by a law that made all Districts into Towns to help for the cause of the Revolutionary War. It was named after Sir Francis Charlton. During the 1800s, farming continued to be the major occupation, but woolen mills were being built along some of the town's brooks by the turn of the twentieth century. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which is land and (2.86%) is water. The town is bordered on the west by Sturbridge; on the north by East Brookfield, Spencer and Leicester; on the east by Oxford; and on the south by Dudley and Southbridge. Charlton is bisected by north–south Route 31, which runs through the historical villages of Charlton Cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rutland, Massachusetts
Rutland is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 9,049 at the 2020 census. Rutland is the geographic center of Massachusetts; a tree, the Central Tree, located on Central Tree Road, marks the general spot. History The town was first settled by Europeans in 1666 and was originally called "Naquag," a name which came from Nipmuc. Officially incorporated in 1713, the Town of Rutland was made up of Barre, Hubbardston, Oakham, Princeton, and the northern half of Paxton. In Northern Rutland there are prison camps used during the Revolutionary War used for captured Hessian mercenaries hired by the British. The town's most famous citizen is Rufus Putnam, who was George Washington's chief engineer in the American Revolutionary War. He held various town offices in Rutland and served as Representative to the General Court. Later, he led a group of Revolutionary War veterans west to settle in the Northwest Territory and Putnam became known as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phillipston, Massachusetts
Phillipston is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 1,724 at the 2020 census. History Phillipston was first settled in 1751, and incorporated as the town of Gerry on October 20, 1786, after separating from Templeton. It was named after Elbridge Gerry. The town's name was changed from Gerry to Phillipston on February 5, 1814, after lieutenant governor William Phillips, Jr. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which is land and , or 1.54%, is water. Phillipston is bordered by Petersham to the southwest, Athol to the northwest, Royalston to the north, Templeton to the east, Hubbardston to the southeast, and a small portion of Barre to the south. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 1,621 people, 580 households, and 443 families residing in the town. The population density was 66.8 people per square mile (25.8/km). There were 739 housing units at an average densi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petersham, Massachusetts
Petersham is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 1,194 at the 2020 census. Petersham is home to a considerable amount of conservation land, including the Quabbin Reservation, Harvard Forest, the Swift River Reservation, and Federated Women's Club State Forest. History Petersham was first settled by Europeans in 1733 and was officially incorporated on April 20, 1754. On February 4, 1787, it was the site of the second battle of Shays' Rebellion. The town is noted for its common, part of the Petersham Common Historic District. About 45 buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Country Store, an 1842 Greek Revival structure that has housed a general store on its main floor since its opening, sits just to the East of the common. The town's lands were expanded greatly by the building of the Quabbin Reservoir in 1938. When the towns of the Swift River Valley were disincorporated, Petersham and neighboring New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paxton, Massachusetts
Paxton is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 5,004 at the 2020 census. History Paxton was first settled by Europeans in 1749 and was officially incorporated in 1765. It was previously occupied by the Nipmuc tribe. The district of Paxton was originally taken from the towns of Leicester and Rutland, in nearly equal parts, and was incorporated February 12, 1765. Charles Paxton, marshal of the Admiralty Court, offered a church bell to the town if it was named after him; no such gift was ever made. The inhabitants soon commenced their plan for building a meeting house, and on the first day of April 1765, the town voted to build it. It was raised on 18 June 1766, and this is the frame of the present meeting house. In 1766, within two years of the incorporation of the town, the foundation of the present meeting house was laid, on what is now the common, near the flagstaff. The land was given by Seth Howe, from a piece of his pasture. David D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palmer, Massachusetts
Palmer is a city in Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 12,448 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. Palmer adopted a home rule charter in 2004 with a council-manager form of government. Palmer is one of thirteen Massachusetts municipalities that have city forms of government but retain "The town of" in their official names. The villages of Bondsville, Thorndike, Depot Village, and Three Rivers are located in Palmer. History Palmer is composed of four separate and distinct villages: Depot Village, typically referred to simply as "Palmer" (named for the ornate Union Station railroad terminal designed by architect Henry Hobson Richardson), Thorndike, Three Rivers, and Bondsville. The villages began to develop their distinctive characters in the 18th century, and by the 19th century two rail lines and a trolley line opened the town to population growth. Today, each village has its own pos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oakham, Massachusetts
Oakham is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 1,851 at the 2020 census. History Oakham was first settled by British colonists in 1749 as part of Rutland, and was officially incorporated in 1762. It was originally named Oakhampton, but the name was changed for an unknown reason. The village of Coldbrook Springs was a part of Oakham, near the Barre line, established on the site of a natural iron spring. A railroad depot was built in nearby in the 1830s and the village eventually included a hotel, tavern, medicinal spa, and a number of houses. The area is part of the Ware River Watershed and now part of the Massachusetts state forest, having been cleared of all structures as a part of the Quabbin Reservoir Aqueduct system. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which is land and , or 1.90%, is water. Oakham is bordered by Barre to the northwest, Rutland to the northeast, Paxton to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Brookfield, Massachusetts
North Brookfield is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 4,735 at the 2020 census. For geographic and demographic information on the census-designated place North Brookfield, please see the article North Brookfield (CDP), Massachusetts. History North Brookfield was first settled in 1664 and was officially incorporated in 1812, splitting from neighboring Brookfield. The town's lands were formerly a part of the Quaboag Plantation. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which are land and , or 3.04%, is water. North Brookfield is bounded on the east by Spencer, on the south by East Brookfield and Brookfield, on the west by West Brookfield, and on the north by New Braintree. The junction of North Brookfield, Spencer and New Braintree is also shared by the town of Oakham; however, Brooks Pond cuts that point, as well as two others, off from the rest of the town. Demographics As of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Braintree, Massachusetts
New Braintree is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 996 at the 2020 census. History Before being settled by re-located residents of Braintree, Massachusetts, New Braintree was occupied by various Native American groups for at least 9,000 years."Our History" New Braintree, Massachusetts web page. Accessed 17 July 2020. In 1669, the town of Braintree, located southeast of Boston, voted that each household would be granted an equal interest in the 6000 acres purchased to the west, to be known as "Braintree Farms". The town's lands were formerly a part of the . In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monson, Massachusetts
Monson is a town in Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 8,150 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. The census-designated place of Monson Center lies at the center of the town. History The first colonist to settle in present-day Monson was Ian Farry, who in 1657 was granted of land by the Massachusetts General Court. He built a tavern along the Bay Path, which was the primary route from Springfield to Boston, and which ran through the northern part of Monson. It was the first house built between Springfield and Brookfield, but the tavern was short-lived; within a year or two, Fellows abandoned it for fear of attacks from local Native Americans. The first permanent settlers arrived in 1715, and in 1735 the town of Brimfield was incorporated, and included present-day Monson within its boundaries. The western part of the town later separated, and was incorporated as the town of Monson in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hubbardston, Massachusetts
Hubbardston is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the town population was 4,328. It is situated 18 miles north of Worcester and 53 miles west of Boston; it is distinguished in Massachusetts by being unusually high at 1015 feet above sea level. History Hubbardston, the "Northeast Quarter" of Rutland, was incorporated as a separate district in 1767 and named for Thomas Hubbard (1702–1773), Commissary General of the Province of Massachusetts and Treasurer of Harvard College. It is reported in local history that in view of the honor of giving his name to the town, Hubbard promised to provide the glass for the windows of the first meeting house built in town. To make his liberality more conspicuous, the people planned for extra windows, but when Hubbard died in 1773, his estate was so complicated that the town of Hubbardston received nothing and was obliged to glaze the windows at its own expense. In 1737 Eleazer Brown located ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
