The West Sutton Historic District encompasses the rural southwestern section of

Sutton, Massachusetts Sutton, officially the Town of Sutton, is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts. The population was 9,357 in the 2020 United States Census. Located in the Blackstone Valley, the town was designated as a Preserve America community in 2004. ...

, including the rural village of West Sutton, which stretches along Central Turnpike from Manchaug Road to the

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town line. Most of its are taken up by farmsteads and the associated agricultural lands. The village, which consists primarily of residential properties from the 18th and 19th centuries, also includes a

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, cemetery, former tavern, former school, and evidence of an early industrial past, including one extant sawmill which dates to 1831. The district was listed on the

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in 2001.

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Historic districts in Worcester County, Massachusetts National Register of Historic Places in Worcester County, Massachusetts Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts Sutton, Massachusetts {{WorcesterCountyMA-NRHP-stub

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