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Lake Avenue/Quinsigamond Lake spans several neighborhoods in South Worcester and East Worcester. [2] Park Ave skirts the eastern edge of West Worcester. [2] The Edgemere neighborhood is primarily in neighboring Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. [2] The Arts District spans several neighborhoods in Central City. [3]
Map of Massachusetts with MetroWest highlighted: Nine towns included by MWERC in red, 23 additional communities in 495/MetroWest Corridor in pink. MetroWest is a cluster of cities and towns lying west of Boston and east of Worcester, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. The name was coined in the 1980s by a local newspaper.
Worcester (/ ˈ w ʊ s t ər / ⓘ WUUST-ər, locally ⓘ) [4] is the second-most populous city in the U.S. state of Massachusetts and the 114th most populous city in the United States. [a] [5] Named after Worcester, England, the city had 206,518 people at the 2020 census, [6] also making it the second-most populous city in New England, after Boston.
Mount Wachusett, the highest point in Worcester County. Worcester County (/ ˈ w ʊ s t ər / WUU-stər) is a county in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. At the 2020 census, the population was 862,111, making it the second-most populous county in Massachusetts. It is also the largest county in Massachusetts by geographic area.
Eastern Worcester is all of the city east of the north-south route of I-190 and I-290. Northwestern Worcester is the part of the city west of those highways and north of Massachusetts Route 122. Finally, southwestern Worcester covers the area south of Route 122 and west of the highways.
The oldest building, known as the Junction Shop, was built in 1851 by Worcester's famous teacher, inventor and abolitionist Eli Thayer, and followed a previously successful model of factory ownership in which the facility owner provided rental space, power, and other facilities to small manufacturers.
Knollwood is an historic estate at 425 Salisbury Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Originally encompassing about 122 acres (49 ha), the estate has been reduced to only 15 acres (6.1 ha), and is now home to the Notre Dame Academy. The estate was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. [1]
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