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• 1750 - The area that was to become Unionville, later Ashland is settled
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
• 1846 - Ashland is incorporated
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
• 1854 - Ashland
  Ashland, a post-township in Middlesex county, Massachusetts, on the Boston and Worcester railroad, 24 miles W. by S. from Boston. Population, 1804.
  A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States: Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy ... Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) Joseph Thomas January 1, 1854 Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company 1854.
  
•   1854 - The Destructive Gate - Its Effects at the East.
  ...In Ashland, a new three-story frame building, 60 by 40 feet, not quite completed, belonging to Leland & Co., shoe manufacturers, was levelled to the ground...
  The New York Times
  New York, New York
  March 21, 1854
  
• Ashland Massachusetts, 1890
  Ashland is a brisk and beautiful town in the southwest of Middlesex County, on the Boston and Albany Railroad, about midway between Boston and Worcester. Southboro lies on the northwest and Sudbury on the southeast; on the north and northeast is Framingham, and on the south, Hopkinton and Holliston. From the last three towns its territory was taken. It was incorporated March 16, 1846. Its area is near 7,832 acres (about 14 square miles, including highways); of which 1,774 acres are woodland. The inhabitants number 2,633, having 447 dwelling-houses. The valuation in 1888 was $1,340,107; and the rate of taxation, $14 on $1,000.
  
  The Sudbury River runs through the town from west to east, affording seats for several factories. Indian, Wiremill and Cold-Spring brooks, its tributaries, are noted for trout. There are a woollen, a cotton, and several boot and shoe factories in the town, affording employment to about 600 persons, and having a yearly product (1885) of $1,261,358. The largest... Read MORE...
  
  
• 1895 - Ashland
  Ashland, a post-village of Middlesex co, Mass., in Ashland township, and on the Boston & Albany Railroad, 24 miles W.S.W. of Boston, and 20 miles E. of Worcester. A weekly newspaper is published here. Ashland has 3 churches, manufactures of boots, carriages, paper &c. Pop. of township, 2211. It is also a terminus of the Hopkinton Railroad, which affords connection with Providence.
  Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott
  
• 1916
  Ashland, a post-village and township (town) of Middlesex co., Mass., on the Boston and Albany and other rail roads, 24 miles WSW. of Boston. It has manufactures of nails, etc. Pop. of the town in 1900, 1525. The banking town is South Framingham.
  Lippincotts New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns, Resorts, Islands, Rivers, Mountains, Seas, Lakes, Etc., in Every Portion of the Globe, Part 1 Angelo Heilprin Louis Heilprin - January 1, 1916 J.B. Lippincott - Publisher
  
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