Uxbridge, Massachusetts

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Uxbridge
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Downtown Uxbridge, looking South on Route 122, Fall scene

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Nickname(s): "Home of America's First Woman Voter" "Crossroads Village"
Motto: "Weaving a Tapestry of Early America"
Location in Worcester County in Massachusetts
Coordinates: 42°04′38″N 71°37′48″W / 42.07722°N 71.63000°W / 42.07722; -71.63000Coordinates: 42°04′38″N 71°37′48″W / 42.07722°N 71.63000°W / 42.07722; -71.63000
Country United States
State Massachusetts
County Worcester
Settled 1662
Incorporated 1727
Government
 • Type Open Town Meeting
 • Chair, Board of Selectmen Jay Cahill
 • Vice Chair, Board of Selectmen Bruce Desilets
 • Clerk, Board of Selectmen Thomas Rice
 • Selectmen Peter Baghdasarian, open
 • Town Manager Sean Hendricks
Area
 • Total 30.4 sq mi (78.7 km2)
 • Land 29.5 sq mi (76.5 km2)
 • Water 0.8 sq mi (2.1 km2)
Elevation 270 ft (82 m)
Population (2010)
 • Total 13,457
 • Density 442.66/sq mi (170.77/km2)
Time zone Eastern (UTC-5)
 • Summer (DST) Eastern (UTC-4)
ZIP code 01569, 01538, 01525
Area code(s) 508 / 774
FIPS code 25-71620
GNIS feature ID 0618387
Website http://www.uxbridge-ma.gov/

Uxbridge, is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts first settled in 1662, incorporated in 1727, and named for the Earl of Uxbridge, in England. The town, (population 13,457), is located 39.77 miles (64.00 km) southwest of Boston and 16 miles (26 km) south-southeast of Worcester in the Greater Boston (CSA). This National Heritage Corridor community, offers glimpses of the Rhode Island System of mill villages at: Rogerson's Village, Elmdale, and Ironstone.

The original Nipmuc village of 'Wacentug" (bend in the river), saw 17th century settlers arrive from Braintree, including the Taft family, (a later political dynasty). Agriculture was dominant for the first 100 years. Lt. Col. Seth Reed fought at Bunker Hill, and was "instrumental" in adding E Pluribus Unum, ('From Many, One'), to U.S. Coins.[1] There are more than 375 state or national historic sites that include architectural styles of the 18th and 19th Century. Rivers powered mills, and the Blackstone Canal moved freight, positioning Uxbridge for textile advances in: woolen power looms, satinets, vertical integration for clothing, military uniforms, "wash and wear" fabrics, and more. One of the oldest US woolen mills began here in 1809. Uxbridge Worsted Co., begun by the Caprons in 1820, made "Uxbridge Blue", the first US Air Force Dress Uniform.[2] Fortune 500 BJ's northern distribution warehouse is located here.

Uxbridge granted town meeting rights to America's first woman voter, Lydia Chapin Taft in 1756,[3] and approved Massachusetts's first women jurors in 1922.[4][5] Local Quakers led Uxbridge to become a center for anti-slavery work, a junction on the underground railroad, and home to national anti-slavery champion, and textile scion, Effingham Capron.[6] A local Quaker, Abby Kelley Foster, led Susan B. Anthony, and Lucy Stone into the abolition movement. Brian Skerry, a modern reformer, captures the effects of climate change, fisheries, and devastation of sea-life in his epic photojournalism. Uxbridge "weaves a tapestry of early America"[7] in industry and social reform.

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History [edit]

Main article: History of Uxbridge, MA

Colonial era, Revolution, and Quaker heritage [edit]

John Eliot started Nipmuc Praying Indian villages.[8][9][10] "Wacentug" natives sold land to settlers in 1662,[11] "for 24 pound Ster".[11][11][12] Mendon began in 1667, and was burned in King Phillips War. Western Mendon became Uxbridge in 1727, and Farnum House held the first town meeting.[13] The 1728 Town Meeting, funded 15 gallons of 'ye good rum for ye raising of ye meeting house'. Nathan Webb's church, was the Colony's first new Congregational church in the Great Awakening.[14] Lydia Chapin Taft, voted in the 1756 Town meeting, a first for women.[3]

Seth and Joseph Read. and Simeon Wheelock joined Committees of Correspondence.[15] Baxter Hall, was a Revolutionary War drummer.[16] Seth Read fought at Bunker Hill, and in the Canadian campaign. Washington stopped at Reed's tavern, en route to begin command of the Continental Army.[17][18] Samuel Spring, was a Revolutionary war chaplain.[19] Deborah Sampson, posed as a male soldier to enlist as "Robert Shurtlieff of Uxbridge".[20] Shays' Rebellion's opening salvos began here and Governor John Hancock quelled Uxbridge riots.[21][22] Lt. Simeon Wheelock, died protecting the Springfield Armory.[23] Senator Seth Reed was instrumental in adding E pluribus unum to U.S. coins.[1][15][24] President Washington slept here on his post Inaugural tour.[25][26]

Jacob Aldrich House; Quaker style house..

Smithfield, RI Quakers, including Richard Mowry, came here and built mills, railroads, houses, tools and Conestoga wagon wheels.[23][27][28] Southwick's store housed the "Social and Instructive Library". The Uxbridge Friends Meetinghouse, built from bricks made on Mosses Farnum's farm, had nationally prominent abolitionists Abby Kelley Foster, and Effingham Capron as members.[29][30][31][32] The 450 member local anti-slavery society, led by Effingham Capron, had a quarter of the town, as members.

Transportation, education and public health [edit]

The Tafts built the Middle Post Road's Blackstone River bridge in 1709.[33] "Teamsters" drove horse "team" freight wagons, on the Worcester-Providence stage route, giving Uxbridge the nickname of "a crossroads village". Construction of the Blackstone Canal brought horsedrawn barges to Providence through Uxbridge for their overnight stop.[11][34][35] The town became a junction on the underground railroad.[6] The P&W Railroad ended canal traffic in 1848.

In 1732 the town voted to "set up a school for ye town of Uxbridge".[11] A 1788 grammar school was quickly followed in 1797 by 13 one room district school houses, built for $2000 to serve the rural farming sections. Uxbridge Academy (1818), became a prestigious New England Prep School. (see Education, below)

Uxbridge voted against smallpox vaccine in 1775.[3] Samuel Willard (physician) treated smallpox victims in South Uxbridge and Glocester (Burrillville), and had the scars to prove it.[36] Town vital records recorded infant mortality,[17] the death of Joseph Richardson, a local Selectman, from smallpox, "Quincy", smallpox, "dysentary", and tuberculosis deaths.[17][23] Dr. Leonard White recorded Malaria in 1896 that led to a plan for[37] his son to collect mosquitoes to study, and citizens to add window screens, and drain standing water, firsts in mitigation efforts for malaria as a mosquito-borne infection.[37]

Industrial era: 19th century to mid-20th century [edit]

Bog iron and three iron forges marked the colonial era, with the inception of large-scale industries beginning around 1775[38]—examples of this development can be seen in the work of Richard Mowry, who built and marketed equipment to manufacture woolen, linen, or cotton cloth,.[7][39] and the early emergence of gristmills, sawmills, distilleries, and other large industries.[8] By the 19th century, Uxbridge had twenty different industrial mills.[8][23] Daniel Day built the Valley's first woolen mill in 1809.[3][11] By 1855, 560 local workers made 2,500,000 yards (2,300,000 m) of cloth (14,204 miles (22,859 km)).[8][23][38]

Charles Capron House, 2 Capron Street. The Capron family was prominent in the Industrial era.

The town led in woolen power looms, vertical integration for clothing, cashmere wool-synthetic blends, "wash and wear" fabric, new yarn spinning techniques, and latch hook kits. Villages developed with mills, shops, worker housing, and farms. Examples included William Arnold's 1814 Ironstone cotton mill, which later manufactured "Kentucky Blue Jeans",[23] and Seth Read's gristmill, which later became the Bay State Arms. John Capron's 1820 mill made the first American satinets,[8][11][38][40] while Hecla and Wheelockville centered around American Woolen, Waucantuck Mill Complex, and Hilena Lowell's shoe factory. Draper Corporation operated locally from 1837 until 1841, before relocating to Hopedale. The Wheelockville mills started by Daniel Day (Manufacturer), 1809 & Jerry Wheelock, & later Luke Taft in 1825 featured water powered mills. Moses Taft's 1852 Calumet (Central Woolen) operated twenty-four hours per day to manufacture Civil War cloth,[23][41]

North Uxbridge was home to Clapp's 1810 Cotton Mill, the Chandler Taft 1814 Mill at RIvulet, Blanchard's granite quarry, and the 1824 Rogerson's village. Crown and Eagle Mill has been described as "a masterpiece of early industrial architecture".[42] Blanchard's granite quarry provided curb stones to New York City and public works projects in the northeast region.[8][23][43] Richard Sayles ran the Rivulet Mill Complex in the mid-1800s.

Effingham Capron, and his brother John Willard Capron ran the 1820 Capron Mill at Uxbridge Center. Charles Arthur Root transformed the company to the Bachman Uxbridge Worsted Co., which grew to thirteen plants, and leadership in women's fashion.[44] Bachman Uxbridge proposed a buyout to be the top US woolen company.[45] Capron Mill, and the successor, Bachman Uxbridge Company, manufactured US Army uniforms for the Civil War, World War I, World War II, the nurse corps, and the first Air Force "dress uniforms", dubbed "Uxbridge Blue".[23][46]

Mid-20th century to present [edit]

Blackstone River and Canal Heritage State Park

State and national parks developed around the mills and rivers were restored.[47] The Great Gatsby (1974) and Oliver's Story (1978) were filmed locally including Stanley Woolen Mill. The National Heritage Corridor[48] contains the 1,000-acre (4.0 km2)Blackstone Canal Heritage State Park,[49] 9 miles (14 km) of the Blackstone River Bikeway,[50] the Southern New England Trunkline Trail, West Hill Dam, a 567 acre wildlife refuge,[51] parcels of the Metacomet Land Trust, and Cormier Woods. 60 Federalist homes[23] add to 54 National, and 375 state-listed historic sites, including Georgian Elmshade.[23] Capron's wooden mill survived a 2007 fire at the Bernat Mill.[52] Stanley mill is being restored while Waucantuck mill, was (mostly) razed. See National historic sites.

Notable people [edit]

Robert Taft I, (1680) became patriarch to the Taft family political dynasty. Robert Taft, 2nd was elected a founding Selectman, and Benjamin Taft built the town's second iron forge. Taft's grandson's widow, Lydia (Chapin) Taft, became "America's first woman voter" in 1756[3] Her son, Bezaleel Taft, Sr., served as an American Revolution Captain, a state representative and state senator, as did his son, Bezaleel Taft, Jr.. Samuel Taft hosted President George Washington's overnight stay on his inaugural tour.[3] Ezra ("T".) Taft Benson was an LDS Church Apostle, Hawaii missionary, and Utah legislator. Great grandson, Ezra Taft Benson, was U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and LDS President. Chandler Taft built the 1814 Rivulet Mill. The mother of Daniel Day, founder of the first woolen mill in the valley, was a Taft. Luke Taft built 2 water powered textile mills, and his son, Moses Taft built Stanley Woolen Mill. Peter Rawson Taft I's son, Secretary of War Alphonso Taft delivered a speech at an Elmshade reunion,[53] and his son, President William Howard Taft, visited Samuel Taft House in 1910 with Gov. Eben Draper.[54]

Willard Preston was the 4th President of the University of Vermont.[55] Arthur MacArthur, Sr. was Lt. Governor and Supreme Court Justice in Wisconsin and Washington, D.C.. His grandson, was General Douglas MacArthur. Seth Read[56] founded Erie, PA and Geneva, NY, and his sons and grandsons were Congressmen and Great Lakes ship captains.[1][15][24] Paul C. Whitin, founded the Whitin Machine Works. Phineas Bruce and Benjamin Adams were U.S. Congressmen. Joshua Macomber and William Augustus Mowry were noted educators. Effingham Capron was a prominent abolitionist and industrialist.[6] Edward Sullivan (US Marine), won a Medal of Honor in the Spanish-American War. Justice Willard Bartlett became Chief Justice of the New York Court of Appeals, and his brother Franklin Bartlett, was a New York Congressman.

Charles Aurthur Root and Edward Bachman built Uxbridge Worsted Company into a multi-state manufacturing giant. Charles's son-in-law, Harold Walter, took the company to the top of the women's fashion industry. Alice Bridges won an Olympic bronze in the 1936 Berlin Olympics.[57] Tim Fortugno was a relief pitcher for the California Angels and Chicago White Sox. Senator Richard Moore was a FEMA executive (1994–1996), and a President of the National Conference of State Legislatures, (2010–2011).[58][59] Brian Skerry is a "legendary" photojournalist with National Geographic working for preservation of global sea life.[60] Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr. is a curator of Baroque Art at the National Gallery.[61] Jacqueline Liebergott,was the first woman president of Emerson College. Jeannine Oppewall, film art producer and screenwriter, has 30+ films, and 4 Academy Awards nominations for best art direction of LA Confidential, Pleasantville, "Seabiscuit" and The Good Shepherd. (see notable residents)

Government [edit]

County-level state agency heads
Clerk of Courts: Dennis P. McManus (D)
District Attorney: Joseph D. Early, Jr. (D)
Register of Deeds: Anthony J. Vigliotti (D)
Register of Probate: Stephen Abraham (D)
County Sheriff: Lew Evangelidis (R)
State government
State Representative(s): Ryan Fattman (R)
Kevin J. Kuros (R)
State Senator(s): Richard T. Moore (D)
Governor's Councilor(s): Jen Caissie (R)
Federal government
U.S. Representative(s): James P. McGovern (D-2nd Dist.)
U.S. Senators: Elizabeth Warren (D, Mo Cowan (D))

Uxbridge has a Board of Selectmen and town meeting form of government, with officials listed in the top infobox:[62] Local government 1) granted the first woman in America the right to vote,[3] 2) voted against mallpox vaccine in 1775,[3] and 3) defied the Massachusetts Secretary of State's office, by approving women jurors.[63] The 2009 Board of Health made Uxbridge the 3rd community in the US to ban tobacco sales in pharmacies. Regional officials of state government hold county elected offices (see info box). Worcester County Sheriff, Lewis Evangelidis manages corrections, parolee and court services for the Worcester District, including the Uxbridge District Court.

Geography [edit]

The town is 30.4 square miles (79 km2), of which 0.8 square miles (2.1 km2), or 2.73%, is water. It is situated 39.77 miles (64.00 km) southwest of Boston, 16 miles (26 km) southeast of Worcester, and 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Providence. Elevations range from 200 feet (61 m) to 577 feet (176 m) above sea level. It borders Douglas, Mendon, Millville, Northbridge, and Sutton, Massachusetts, plus the Rhode Island towns of Burrillville and North Smithfield.

 Sutton, Massachusetts Northbridge Mendon
Douglas Mendon
  Uxbridge  
Burrillville, Douglas Burrillville and North Smithfield, Rhode Island. Millville, North Smithfield.

Climate [edit]

A USDA hardiness zone 5 continental climate prevails with snowfall extremes from October (rare), to May. The highest recorded temperature was 104 F, in July 1975, and the lowest, -25 F in January 1957.[64]

Climate data for Uxbridge, Massachusetts
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Average high °F (°C) 37
(3)		 40
(4)		 49
(11)		 59
(15)		 70
(21)		 79
(27)		 84
(29)		 82
(28)		 75
(23)		 64
(18)		 53
(13)		 42
(5)		 60
(15)
Average low °F (°C) 13
(−9)		 16
(−8)		 27
(−2)		 37
(3)		 47
(8)		 55
(13)		 60
(16)		 59
(15)		 49
(9)		 37
(4)		 30
(−1)		 20
(−6)		 40
(4)
Precipitation inches (cm) 3.6
(9)		 3.3
(8)		 4.1
(10)		 3.9
(9)		 4.3
(10)		 3.6
(9)		 3.7
(9)		 4.1
(10)		 4.1
(10)		 4.1
(10)		 4.5
(11)		 4.0
(10)		 47.3
(120)
Source: Weather.com[64]

Demographics [edit]

Historical population
Year Pop.   ±%  
1850 2,457 —    
1860 3,133 +27.5%
1870 3,058 −2.4%
1880 3,111 +1.7%
1890 3,408 +9.5%
1900 3,599 +5.6%
1910 4,671 +29.8%
1920 5,384 +15.3%
1930 6,285 +16.7%
1940 6,417 +2.1%
1950 7,007 +9.2%
1960 7,789 +11.2%
1970 8,253 +6.0%
1980 8,374 +1.5%
1990 10,415 +24.4%
2000 11,156 +7.1%
2010 13,457 +20.6%

The 2010 United States Census[75] was 13,457, a growth rate of 20.6%, with 5,056 households, a density rate of 166.31 units per square mile. 95.7% were White, 1.7% Asian, 0.90% Hispanic, 0.3% African American, and 1.4% other. Population density was 442.66 people/ mile2 (170.77/km²). Per capita income was $24,540, and 4.7% fell below the poverty line. The number of registered voters was 9,959 for 2010

Economy [edit]

High tech, services, distribution, life sciences, hospitality, local government, education and tourism offer local jobs. A 618,000 square feet (57,400 m2) distribution center serves Fortune 500 BJ's Wholesale Club's, northern division. The November 2011 unemployment was 6.3% [76]

Education [edit]

Local schools include: Taft pre k-2, Whitin Elementary, McCluskey Middle, Uxbridge High (built 2012) and Our Lady of the Valley Regional. Valley Tech (Upton) houses Quinsigamond State College. The New York Times called Uxbridge education reforms, a "little revolution" to meet family needs.[77]

Healthcare [edit]

Tri-River Family Health Center, (UMass Medical) offers primary care. Milford Regional, Landmark M/C, hospices and long term care are nearby, or local.

Transportation [edit]

Rail [edit]

The nearest MBTA Commuter Rail stops are Forge Park/495 on the Franklin Line and Worcester on the Framingham/Worcester Line, less than 15 miles away. The Northeast Corridor Providence (Amtrak station), has trains with top speeds of 150 MPH, 20 miles to the southeast. The Providence and Worcester Railroad, a freight line, passes here, and two former stations.

Highways [edit]

MA Route 146.svgRoute 146[78] links Worcester, I-290.svgI-290, and I-90.svgI-90, to Providence at I-95.svgI-95 and I-295.svg I-295. MA Route 16.svgRoute 16 links to Connecticut via I-395.svg I-395, and Boston, by I-495.svg I-495. MA Route 122.svg Route 122 connects Northbridge, and Woonsocket. MA Route 146A.svgRoute 146A, goes into North Smithfield. MA Route 98.svg Route 98 leads to Burrillville.

Airports [edit]

TF Green State Airport Warwick-Providence, RI, Worcester airport, and Boston Logan International Airport, have commercial flights. Hopedale airport, 7.2 miles (11.6 km), and Worcester airport, have general aviation.

Points of interest [edit]

Photos [edit]

  • Nipmuck Dancing in the Blackstone Valley; The original Town of Mendon, MA was purchased from the Nipmuck in 1662 as Squinshepauk Plantation. Nipmuck are the indigenous people of Worcester County, Northeastern CT, and NW Rhode Island.

  • Coronet John Farnum, Jr., House, 1710, houses Uxbridge Historical Society, Held First Town Meeting in 1727

  • Nathan Webb's Church (1731), first new Congregational Church in Massachusetts, First Great Awakening Period

  • Portrait, Rev. Samuel Spring, Old South Church, Newburyport; (1746–1819), early American Revolutionary War chaplain, Congregationalist minister, founder of Andover (now Newton-Andover) Theological Seminary and Massachusetts Missionary Society. Uxbridge native, tutored by Rev Nathan Webb

  • Lt. Colonel Seth Read, born 1746, fought at Bunker Hill, added E Pluribus Unum to coins, and founded Erie, PA, and early settlement at Geneva, New York

  • Seth Read House Uxbridge, MA, built circa 1767 at corner of present day Mendon St, and North Main Street before railroad was built.

  • Lt. Simeon Wheelock House (1768), Deborah Wheelock Chapter, D.A.R. Lt. Wheelock, who was born in 1741, died in Shays' rebellion in 1786, while on duty protecting the Springfield Armory. Shays' Rebellion had opening salvos in Uxbridge

  • Deborah Sampson, a woman posing as a male soldier, enlisted in the Continental Army at Bellingham as "Robert Shurtlieff of Uxbridge". A minister kept her secret, and she was later honored as a heroine by the Massachusetts legislature.

  • Aaron Taft House, Hazel St. was the birthplace of Peter Rawson Taft in 1785, Grandfather of President William Howard Taft.

  • Samuel Taft House. Samuel Taft hosted President George Washington overnight in his home, then a tavern along the Middle Post Road, on the President's Post Inaugural Tour of New England, on November 8, 1789.

  • Friends Meeting House (1770), Quaker Highway at Route 98, Uxbridge, MA. Abolitionist Quakers with ties to Moses Brown first resettled here from Rhode Island. At least two of its members became key leaders in the national anti-slavery movement- Abby Kelley Foster and Effingham Capron.

  • Abby Kelley Foster, a member of the Uxbridge Friend's Meeting, led Susan B. Anthony to abolitionism. She became the foremost lecturer and fundraiser for the American anti-slavery society of which fellow Quaker meetinghouse member Effingham Capron became Vice President..

  • The town of Uxbridge built 13 district schoolhouses in 1797. The South Uxbridge schoolhouse today houses the south Uxbridge community association at the historic site of Ironstone, Massachusetts.

  • Jacob Aldrich house typifies the early Quaker houses at Quaker City, and South Uxbridge.

  • Uxbridge Academy & Masonic Lodge. Uxbridge Academy was a sought after New England Prep School from 1818

  • Site of the Daniel Day Mill, 1809. Daniel Day (Manufacturer) started the first woolen mill in the Blackstone Valley later also known as "Scott's Mill", the current factory recently housed Berrocoo Inc., extending a 200 year family enterprise, now a prominent yarn company..

  • Rivulet Mill Complex, 1814, North Uxbridge, The original mill was built by Chandler Taft, and later owned by Richard Sayles.

  • The Capron Mill, 1820, built by John Capron Sr. and his sons Effingham, and John, circa 1820 manufactured the first satinets, used the first power looms for woolens in America, and made US military uniforms for over 140 years, including the first US Air Force dress uniform, "Uxbridge 1683", aka Uxbridge Blue.

  • Charles Capron House, 2 Capron Street. The Capron family was prominent in the Industrial era

  • Crown & Eagle Mill, built in 1824 by Robert Rogerson, a son of British immigrants, and a musician, it is considered a masterpiece of early American Industrial architecture, today the heart of Rogerson's Village Historic District.

  • The Company Store at Rogerson's Village, now known as the Larkin Building

  • Rogersons Village mill worker housing, Rhode Island System of Mill Villages

  • Joseph Richardson House, on the national historic register, Joseph Richardson was a Selectman, and landowner in South Uxbridge, who died of Smallpox in 1825.

  • Stanley Woolen Mill, 1852, built by Moses Taft, with view of the Blackstone Canal, was the scene for two movies, The Great Gatsby, 1974, and Oliver's Story, 1978. In 1989, it had been the longest continuously operating family-owned mill in the US. This mill ran 24/7 making Civil War blue woolen cloth for military uniforms.

  • Canoes on the Blackstone Canal. The Blackstone Canal was built starting in 1824 and provided early freight transport by horse pulled barges from Uxbridge and Worcester, to the port of Providence and returns. Uxbridge was the overnight stopping point, and had close mercantile ties to Providence.

  • The Taft brothers built the first bridge across the Blackstone River in 1709. This stone arch bridge is a familiar scene walking northward at the Blackstone Canal Heritage State Park.

  • River Bend Farm Interpretive Center at Blacktone River and Canal Heritage State Park

  • Ezra Taft Benson, (1811–1869) ran a hotel in Uxbridge, married two sisters from Northbridge, LDS Apostle, Missionary to the Hawaiian Islands, and Utah Territorial Legislator

  • Arthur MacArthur, Sr., born to Scottish nobility, grew up in Uxbridge, circa 1828, became Wisconsin's 4th Governor for a brief period, and its Lt. Governor, and served as Chief Justice, of the US DC District Court. He was the Grandfather of General Douglas McArthur

  • Unitarian Church at Uxbridge where Judge Henry Chapin, three term Worcester Mayor, delivered a famous 1864 published historical address. Judge Chapin was as a prominent Unitarian Church leader in Massachusetts. This church was prominent in the Industrial period of this community.

  • Judge Henry Chapin, 2nd Mayor of Worcester, 1849-1851), three term Mayor, Chief Judge, and Practicing Attorney who lived in Uxbridge, and delivered a famous historical address to the Uxbridge Unitarian Church in 1864 recording the account of America's First Woman Voter, Lydia Taft

  • Effingham Capron (1791–1859) was a national, state and local anti-slavery champion. He and his brother John Capron, Jr and their father, ran the Capron Mill at Uxbridge. The historic park commemorates the contributions of Effingham Capron here and to the USA.

  • Franklin Bartlett was a US Congressman from New York from 1893-1897. He fought in the Spanish American War and his brother Willard Bartlett was Chief Justice of the New York Court of Appeals.

  • Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr, National Gallery Curator Northern Baroque Art, grew up in Uxbridge family which had started and operated multiple mils for 200 years. A descendent of Rev. Ralph Wheelock who pioneered public education in America.

  • Brian Skerry, At Boston University, 2011, born 1962, Underwater Photographer, With National Geographic, Sounding the Alarm for Global Sealife.

  • Uxbridge High School, Quaker Highway, S. Uxbridge, MA, built 2012.

See also [edit]


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