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The Seven Sisters are the location of the Seven Sisters Trail Race every spring, a twelve-mile (19 km) "out-and-back" run that often leaves its runners bloody, bruised and exhausted. [1] In response to a proposed suburban development on the Seven Sisters in the late 1990s, several non-profit groups and local governments worked together to block ...
The Dudley Hill Historic District encompasses the historic heart of Dudley, Massachusetts. The historic district is essentially linear, extending along Center Street between Dudley Hill and Tanyard Roads. This area was the first to be settled in the mid-17th century, and is composed mainly of civic, religious, and residential buildings dating ...
The Wren's Nest National Nature Reserve is world-famous geologically for its well-preserved Silurian coral reef fossils.Considered the most diverse and abundant fossil site in the British Isles, [9] more than 700 types of fossil have been found at the site, 86 of which are unique to the location, [10] including Calymene blumenbachii, a trilobite nicknamed the Dudley Bug or Dudley Locust by ...
This list of museums in Massachusetts is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The Stevens Linen Works Historic District encompasses a 19th-century factory complex associated with the manufacturing of linen and flax fabric in Dudley, Massachusetts. Its centerpiece is the Stevens Linen Mill, built in the 1860s by Henry Hale Stevens and operated into the 1990s. The mill is a large granite U-shaped building, five stories ...
The reservation is notable for its .25-mile-long (400 m), 70-foot-deep (21 m) chasm in granite bedrock with abrupt precipices and caves. Various theories have been proposed to account for the creation of the chasm. According to one source, it was created when glacial meltwater ripped out bedrock at the end of the last Ice Age.
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