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4 Bedrooms
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4 Bedrooms
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4 Bedrooms
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5 Bedrooms
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4 Bedrooms
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4 Bedrooms
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3 Bedrooms
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4 Bedrooms
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2 Full Baths - 1 Half Baths
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| $ 185,000 |
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Condominium
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2 Bedrooms
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1 Full Baths - 0 Half Baths
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Single Family Home
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4 Bedrooms
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1 Full Baths - 0 Half Baths
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| $ 549,900 |
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3 Bedrooms
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2 Full Baths - 1 Half Baths
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| Northborough, Massachusetts |
| Population |
11,929 |
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| Tax Rate |
13.28 (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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Northborough, Massachusetts is located
Central eastern Massachusetts, bordered by Berlin on the north, Westborough on
the south, Marlborough on the east, Southborough on the southeast, and Boylston
and Shrewsbury on the west. Northborough is 10 miles northeast of Worcester, 30
miles west of Boston, amd 190 miles from New York City. Principal highways are U.S. Route 20, Interstate 290, which connects
Interstate Route 495 with Worcester, and State Routes 9 and 135. Interstate
Routes 90 and 495 form an interchange in the neighboring town of
Westborough. Conrail provides freight service to Northborough. Contact number: (617)
783-6222
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| The Town of Northborough, originally part of the Towns of Marlborough --
then Westborough, was incorporated in 1766 and became a full-fledged town
with the right of representation at the Great and General Court of Boston
in 1775.
The early churches of Massachusetts, called "meeting houses," were the
center of all town activity. Built on land given by Capt. James Eager,
Northborough's first Meeting House stood about where the First
Congregational Unitarian Church is today, on Church Street. Town meetings
were held there, as were church services -- at which attendance was
compulsory. The only religion tolerated within the Puritan Massachusetts
Bay Colony was that of the Congregational Church, which, at that time, had
strong Calvinist tenets. The church "tithing men" were the legally elected
officers of the town, while town ministers were the arbiters of both town
and family life. Customarily, they had strong influence in the conduct of
the schools, which were not nearly as important to the founding fathers as
was the church, and had no formal setup until well after everything else in
town was established.
Northborough's open town meeting "grass roots" government now operates
under its own home rule charter. The governing body of the town are the
five elected members of the town's select board and the town meeting
membership of registered voters. In the days of unheated meeting houses,
town meetings were often adjourned to the warmth of the famous Post Road
state stop, Monroe's Tavern. This tavern now stands on the spot to which
it was removed in 1867, at the corner of Blake and Pierce streets. The
meeting locale of the select board as well as the "official" offices of the
town have moved from the first church to the second church vestry to the
Old Town House to the "old" Town Hall (which merited a listing from the
National Park Service Department as an Historical Architectural Monument,
having the longest roof span of any known French Mansard roof style
building) to the "new" Town Hall, which is the old Northborough High School
-- built in the early 1930s.
Along the old Boston Post Road, commemorative plaques outline historical
events including the place where Mary Goodnow, a young Northborough
settler, was scalped by Indians in 1707. Scattered along the tributaries
of the Assabet River, numerous mills serve as markers of another kind,
commemorating the places where textile manufacturing and other early
industry boomed, and then, ebbed and died.
Today, in addition to providing the setting for several working farms,
Northborough is also host to a burgeoning research and development-oriented
industrial park; however, the town serves primarily as a residential area,
rural home to Boston and Worcester commuters. |
Map of Northborough
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Some information gathered on Northborough, MA is courtesy of Commonwealth Communities at Mass.gov
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