Petersham is a

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...

(CDP) comprising the main village in the town of Petersham, Worcester County,

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, United States.

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passes through the village, leading north to Athol and southeast to Barre.

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joins Route 32 in the village center, leading southeast with it to Barre but northwest to

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. As of the 2010 census, the population of the CDP was 243, out of 1,234 in the entire town of Petersham.

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Census-designated places in Worcester County, Massachusetts Census-designated places in Massachusetts {{WorcesterCountyMA-geo-stub