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Grafton is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 19,664 at the 2020 census . [ 1 ] The town consists of the North Grafton, Grafton, and South Grafton geographic areas, each with a separate ZIP Code.
Towns have an open town meeting or representative town meeting form of government; cities, on the other hand, use a mayor-council or council-manager form. Based on the form of government, as of 2023, [1] there are 292 towns and 59 cities in Massachusetts. Over time, many towns have voted to become cities; 14 municipalities still refer to ...
The Fisherville Historic District is a historic district encompassing one of the four 19th century industrial villages of Grafton, Massachusetts. The area's first industrial activity was in 1831–2, when Peter Farnum (who had a mill at Farnumsville) and business partners built a brick mill there. A densely packed residential area grew around ...
[18] Today the Richards Memorial Library is located downtown, and is a member of SAILS Library Network, a network of libraries in Southeastern Massachusetts. [19] In fiscal year 2008, the town spent 0.77% ($572,874) of its budget on its public library—approximately $20 per person, per year ($24.49 adjusted for inflation to 2021). [20]
The present day Hassanamisco Reservation located in Grafton, Massachusetts, was briefly a praying town in 1728 when it was called the town of Hassanamesit. [2] Hassanamesit was already an established community when Eliot arrived, so he illegally claimed it in order to enslave the people already living there to the settlers and their religion. [14]
Descendants of the Praying town of Chaunbunagungamaug, now part of Webster, on lands returned by the town of Dudley, Massachusetts. The tribe's reservation spans 2.5 acres in Thompson, CT, where its office is located, and across the border in Thompson, Connecticut. [15] Hassanamisco Nipmuc Band, Grafton Indians
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This is the land in the Town of Grafton that is known as the "Hassanamisco Reservation." The Bureau of Indian Affairs determined that only two percent of the current membership of the Nipmuck Nation group descends from the historical Hassanamisco Indians. For at least 107 years, there was no State-recognized Indian entity and no State supervision.