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Paxton
Ma is a small Worcester County community with a great store of reverence
for its history and its past. Turkey Hill Brook was used for hunting and
fishing by the Nipmucks, the Native Americans who lived in the region before
any white settlers had arrived in the early 1700s. The brook also served
as the site of the first mills, built to take advantage of the brook's
90-foot drop through a steep gorge.
For the next 180 years, Turkey Hill
Brook supplied power to a series of small mills that served the farmers
who lived in the surrounding countryside. Residents point with particular
pride to Moore State Park, a 400-acre enclave which incorporates many of
the historical sites in
Paxton and combines them with the
beauty of thousands of azaleas and rhododendrons planted by Florence Morton,
one of the first women in Massachusetts to earn a degree in landscape architecture,
and the Spaulding family, when this area was a private estate. Paxton residents
extend an open invitation to visitors to join them in savoring the richness
of their past.
Paxton Mass is located in Central
Massachusetts, bordered by Rutland on the north, Holden on the east, Worcester
on the southeast, Leicester on the south, and Spencer and Oakham on the
west. Paxton is 9 miles west of Worcester, 48 miles west of Boston, and
176 miles from New York City. |