Sparsely populated and with a rich colonial history, Sudbury is an affluent town in Greater Boston’s MetroWest region. The United States’ oldest continuously operating inn awaits you in Sudbury, and starting in the 1920s this was...
An archetypal hardscrabble town, Rockland on the South Shore was never ideal for farming because of its rocky terrain. Instead, industry boomed here in the 19th century with trades like shoemaking and lumber. A few of the factories...
In the northern Pioneer Valley, Greenfield is a scenic old mill town, historically known for toolmaking and cutlery manufacturing. There are museums here and in nearby Turners Falls, going into detail about industry in Franklin County,...
This town on the South Shore has special ties to the Civil War. For some 20 years Abington was the site of an annual Abolitionist meeting, held at what is now Island Grove Park, a picturesque public space next to a pond. In the 1810s...
Where the Powwow River flows into the lower Merrimack, Amesbury is a delightful little city in the far northeast of Massachusetts. From its earliest days Amesbury had a strong reputation for shipbuilding, and you can tap into this...
This town of just over 15,000 people sits east of the distinguished college town of Amherst, and is known for an historic fair celebrated every September. The Belchertown Fair remains a heartwarming spectacle, with time-honored attractions...
In Southeastern Massachusetts, the town of Raynham was originally part of the Plymouth Colony, the first permanent colony in New England, and the second in North America. Starting in the 1670s, this was the site of the colony’s first...
On the Upper Cape, Mashpee is a town known as the headquarters for the Wampanoag Mashpee Tribe, with hundreds of members continuing to live here. The Wampanoag make up a large minority today, but up until the 1960s comprised the majority...
This North Shore seaside community goes back 400 years, and has had a fishing fleet for all this time. One of Swampscott’s early residents was Deborah Moody (1586- c. 1659), a Nonconformist who later became the only woman to found...
In the MetroWest area of Greater Boston, Holliston is a small town with a lot to love about it. Holliston center is the kind of downtown that instantly wins you over, with Businesses that have been here for many years, taking no customer...
Made up of five villages, Dennis is a town on the Mid Cape, held by many as Cape Cod’s cultural center. You can see why, as the storied Cape Playhouse, the Cape Cod Museum of Art and the Cape Cinema are all grouped together on a...
In the wooded hills of north Central Massachusetts, Athol is a small town of 12,000 on the banks of the Millers River, a tributary of the Connecticut River. The river is a uniting feature for the town, and its sister, Orange, and sets...
On the MA/NH line in Middlesex County, Pepperell is a rural town with a diversity of farms where you can pick your own fruit, meet barnyard Animals, or simply purchase fabulous fresh produce and pastured meat from farm stands. The...
A town of 20,000 in Briston County, Norton has long been on the sporting map as the home of TPC Boston, hosting the Dell Technologies Championship up to 2019. The village of Norton Center, where you’ll find the town’s civic institutions,...
This outlying eastern suburb of Springfield is bordered to the north by the Chicopee River. In times past, the northern part of the town was industrialized, while the southern end was agrarian. Now Wilbraham is mostly residential,...
On the Upper Cape, Sandwich is an historic town facing Cape Cod Bay and first settled in 1637. From the 1820s, Sandwich established a reputation as New England’s premier glassmaking center, and this history is presented in vivid...
At the very base of Cape Cod, Bourne is a town composed of seven villages on either side of the Cape Cod Canal. For visitors, everything in Bourne gravitates towards this great waterway, opened in 1914. You can walk or ride a bike...
South of Worcester, Auburn is a town of 17,000 incorporated as “Ward” in 1778. This name didn’t stick as it was too similar to the nearby town of Ware, so the new name of Auburn was chosen in 1837. Auburn has a special place...
Right in Massachusetts’ cranberry country, Lakeville is a town with almost a fifth of its area taken up by water. As well as dozens of cranberry bogs, Lakeville is home to Assawompset Pond, the largest natural lake in Massachusetts. The...
West of Plymouth, this bucolic town in Southeastern Massachusetts is in a swampy landscape. In fact, 50% of Carver’s area is made up of wetlands. From the 18th century, this made the town a prime spot for bog iron, dredged from the...
A rural suburban town of almost 12,000, Norfolk is on the southwestern edge of the Boston metropolitan area, in an upper valley of the Charles River. The early History of Norfolk circles around a religious dispute in the 18th century,...