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3 Bedrooms
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2 Full Baths - 0 Half Baths
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0 Bedrooms
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3 Bedrooms
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2 Bedrooms
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3 Bedrooms
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3 Bedrooms
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2 Full Baths - 1 Half Baths
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Single Family Home
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2 Bedrooms
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Single Family Home
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2 Bedrooms
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2 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 - 1 Half Baths
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Single Family Home
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3 Bedrooms
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2 Full Baths - 0 Half Baths
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3 Bedrooms
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1 Full Baths - 0 Half Baths
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Single Family Home
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3 Bedrooms
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2 Full Baths - 1 Half Baths
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| $ 269,000 |
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Single Family Home
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3 Bedrooms
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2 Full Baths - 0 Half Baths
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| $ 139,900 |
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Single Family Home
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4 Bedrooms
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| Spencer, Massachusetts |
| Population |
11,645 |
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| Tax Rate |
7.92 (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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Spencer, Massachusetts is located
Central Massachusetts, bordered by Oakham on the north, Paxton on the northeast,
Leicester on the east, Charlton on the south, and East Brookfield and North
Brookfield on the west. Spencer is 11 miles west of Worcester and 51 miles west
of Boston. Principal highways are State Route 9, which traverses Massachusetts in a
roughly E-W direction, and State Route 31 running N-S. Conrail provides freight rail service through Spencer. Contact number:
(617) 783-6222
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| The Town of Spencer is located in central Worcester County, twenty minutes
west of Worcester and about forty five minutes from Springfield. Largely
residential, Spencer has been a supplier of workers in all categories for
nearly every industry in the greater Worcester area. Ease of travel to all
sections of the county makes Spencer a desirable area in which to live.
Route 31 gives access to Holden, Fitchburg, Leominster in the north;
Charlton, Oxford and Southbridge in the south. Route 49 gives easy access
to Sturbridge, Brimfield, Southbridge, the Mass Turnpike and Interstate 86
to Connecticut. Route 9 leads westerly through the Brookfields and Ware to
the Amherst Campus of the University of Massachusetts and easterly to
Worcester, Shrewsbury, Northborough, and Westborough. In addition to its
own small commercial airfield on Paxton Road, Spencer is less than twenty
minutes from Worcester airport and the industrial complex located next to
it.
Spencer is also home for several large dairy farms, indicating that the
town's fertile soil is not only suited for residential use. Several major
lakes and ponds are also located in the town, including Stiles Reservoir,
Thompson Pond, Lake Whittemore, Cranberry Meadow, Sugden Reservoir and
Brooks Pond, providing recreational boating, swimming and fishing for the
public.
Settled in 1717 by Nathaniel Wood, Spencer was incorporated as a town in
1753. It has been established as a district from a part of Leicester. Its
name was assigned by Lieutenant Governor Spencer Phipps who had signed the
order establishing the district. In 1784, Spencer was a major stopping
place on the Old Boston Post Road's stage route between Boston and
Hartford, and on to New York. Spencer's first mill was built in 1740 on
Seven Mile River, the greatest source of water power in the town. In 1811,
Josiah Green began making shoes, and in 1834 he built a factory. The
Prouty family began to make shoes in 1820, and built their factory in 1855.
In 1812, Elliot Prouty had begun to "draw" wire in a mill he had built.
His business flourished in his family until 1916, when it merged with
Wickwire Steel Company. At one time there were 11 factories and 26
buildings for wire drawing.
The Howe family of Spencer did much to make the town famous in the annals
of ingenious Americans. William Howe of Spencer developed a wooden truss
bridge named for him, and his brother Tyler Howe, patented a spring bed.
Their nephew, Elias Howe, Jr., may well have eclipsed them when he invented
the lockstitch sewing machine. |
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Some information gathered on Spencer, MA is courtesy of Commonwealth Communities at Mass.gov
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