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 campus here. To go with that, Dennis may have …
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 the scene for an annual canoe race between the towns every spring. …
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 land was first settled in 1720 and Pepperell became a full-fledged town in 1775 at …
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, is right next to the 500-acre campus of Wheaton College, rightly considered one of …
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, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t a lot of farms around, where you can pick your own fruit, …
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 detail at the Sandwich Glass Museum, where you can watch live demonstrations in front of the furnace. …
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 along the banks, catch a train across the magnificent Cape Cod Canal …
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 in modern history, as it was here that the engineer and …
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 pond is part of a massive complex, serving as a drinking water supply for New …
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 ponds and forged at iron works. When that industry went into decline, the …