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The Town of Ashland Massachusetts
is the ideal location midway between Boston and Worcester and provides
easy access to the interstate highway system and the Massachusetts Turnpike.
Ashland was, in earlier times, a stopping point on a major Indian trail
which later became known as the Bay Path, connecting Cambridge and Connecticut.
It was here that a community of Natick
Indians was established as the Village of Magunkaquog in about 1659. Once
the original starting point of the world famous Boston Marathon, which
still runs through Ashland, the town is also known as the site of Henry
Warren's invention of the electric clock, later manufactured here under
the Telechron name.
Ashland, although predominantly residential,
is committed to a close working relationship with its business community.
Businesses, residents and visitors look forward to "Ashland Day", a not-to-be-missed
annual celebration of traditional New England spirit.
Ashland is located in Eastern Massachusetts,
bordered by Sherborn on the east, Framingham on the north, Southborough
on the west and northwest, and Hopkinton and Holliston on the south. Ashland
is 20 miles east of Worcester, 22 miles west of Boston. |