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Title: A gazetteer of the state of Massachusetts : with numerous illustrations
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Nason, Elias, 1811-1887 Varney, George J. (George Jones), 1836-1901
Subjects: Massachusetts -- Gazetteers
Publisher: Boston : B.B. Russell
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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ev.Thomas Kendall was ordained as the first minister in 1779, andremained in the pastorate here until 1800. The town is somewhatnoted for longevity, based as well on the general average as onspecial cases. Mr. John Shepherd was born here in 1700. Helived more than a century in one spot; and it was said of him thathe lived in two counties and four different towns without movingfrom the place where he was born. He died in Attleborou^h in1800, aged 100 years. Mr. Seth Boy den (1788-1870), an inventorand skilful mechanic, and Professor Henry B. Nason, a skilfulchemist and an author, were born here. r OXnill, a village in Dedham. amingh am, one of the most beautiful towns in theCommonwealth, lies in the southwestern FEAMINOHAM. 315 part of Middlesex County, some 20 miles southwest of Boston,nearly the same distance east of Worcester, about 25 miles south ofFitchburg and Lowell, and 30 miles north of Taunton. It is boundedon the north by Sudbury, east by Wayland, Natick and Sherborn, Hit 1;
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south by Ashland, and west by Southborough and Marlborough.The assessed area is 14,543 acres, 2,544 of which are well coveredwith pine, oak and chestnut. The formative rock is upper gneissic, 316 GAZETTEEIt OF MASSACHUSETTS. from which good stone is quarried for cellars and walls of buildings.The Sudbury River takes a general northeasterly course through thetown, somewhat eastward of a medial line. Along its western sidethe land is quite level, the plain expanding westward from thecentre. Other parts are hilly; Nobscot Hill at the north, rising tothe height of 602 feet; and Ballards and Merriams hills along thesouthern border. The town has four beautiful ponds stored withtrout, black bass, pickerel, perch, eels and other fish. Farm Pond,the largest of these, containing 168 acres, separates South Framing-ham from the central village, and is connected with the BostonWater-works, — which has, besides, Basins No. 1, 2 and 3 in thetown. Shakum Pond, of 93 acres, and Learned Pond, of 42,

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