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3 Bedrooms
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| $ 389,900 |
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3 Bedrooms
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4 Bedrooms
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3 Bedrooms
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3 Bedrooms
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4 Bedrooms
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4 Bedrooms
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2 Bedrooms
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4 Bedrooms
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2 Bedrooms
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2 Bedrooms
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| $ 445,500 |
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4 Bedrooms
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| Charlton, Massachusetts |
| Population |
9,576 |
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| Tax Rate |
8.69 (2008) |
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| Town Web Site |
Town Web Site |
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| School Research |
Department of Education
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Independent Research
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Charlton, Massachusetts is located
South central Massachusetts, bordered by Spencer on the north, Leicester on the
northeast, Oxford on the east, Dudley and Southbridge on the south, Sturbridge
on the west, and East Brookfield on the northwest. Charlton is 17 miles
southwest of Worcester, 40 miles southwest of Boston, 36 miles east of
Springfield, and 165 miles from New York City. Principal highways are the Massachusetts Turnpike (Interstate Route 90),
cross-state U.S. Route 20, and State Routes 31 and 169. Conrail provides freight rail service through Charlton. Contact number:
(617) 783-6222
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| Incorporated in 1755 and located in the Commonwealth's south-central
quadrant, the Town of Charlton is 50 miles or less from five major New
England cities; Boston, Worcester, Springfield, Hartford and Providence.
The town's history includes James Capen Adams (1807-1860), better known as
"Grizzly" Adams, one of the last of the mountain men. When he headed west
in 1852, Adams was a discontented 45-year-old cobbler. During his eight
years in the Rockies, he became a friend and slayer of grizzly bears. He
survived several hand-to-fang encounters and did a successful tour with
P.T. Barnum. He died with his boots on and is buried in the Old Burying
Ground in Charlton. His headstone, a carved relief of the buckskin-clad
"Grizzly", was ordered by Barnum himself. The cemetery, now known as the
Bay Path Cemetery, also contains three photographic stones, headstones with
small glass-covered niches in which were placed daguerreotypes of the
deceased. Once the vogue, few of these curious stones now remain.
On Charlton Common is a memorial to Dr. William Thomas Green Morton
(1819-1868), the man whose experiments with ether first made anesthesia
possible during surgical operations. Working with a dentist, Dr. Morton
made the first extractions of the deep roots of teeth using ether in 1846
and one month later performed a major operation at the Massachusetts
General Hospital with an etherized patient.
Easy access to major highways such as I-90, I-84, I-290 and I-395, as well
as Charlton's abundant available land, have changed the size and character
of the town in the last decade from wholly rural to rural/residential. |
Map of Charlton
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Some information gathered on Charlton, MA is courtesy of Commonwealth Communities at Mass.gov
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