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  History of Mendon, Massachusetts, USA

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• (Mendon) In 1662, "Squinshepauke Plantation was started at the Netmocke settlement and plantation".
  
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• 1667 - Mendon is incorporated
  The town was originally 64 square miles (170 km2), including the modern-day towns of Milford, Bellingham, Hopedale, Uxbridge, Upton, Blackstone,...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• (Mendon) - On July 14, 1675, early violence in King Philip's War took place in Mendon, with the deaths of multiple residents and the destruction of Albee's mill. These were the first settlers killed in this war in the Colony of Massachusetts.
  
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• In 1789, it is purported that President George Washington, during his inaugural journey, was denied a room in Mendon by an innkeeper’s wife.
  
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• 1845 - MENDON. [Pop. in 1840, 1,007. Inc. 1667.]
  Mendon was first attached to Middlesex county, and was settled by emigrants from Braintree and Weymouth, in Norfolk county.
  
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• 1848 - Mendon
  MENDON is situated at the south-easternmost extremity of the county of Worcester, and is the oldest town in it except Lancaster. It was incorporated...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1854 - Mendon
  Mendon, a post-village of Worcester co., Massachusetts, on a commanding elevation, 35 miles S. W. from Boston. It contains 3 or 4 churches, from 60...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• Mendon Massachusetts, 1890
  Mendon lies in the southeasterly part of Worcester County, 34 miles southwest from Boston. South Hopedale (formerly South Milford), three miles east...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1895 - Mendon
  Mendon, a post-village in Mendon township, Worcester co, Mass, 35 miles S.W. of Boston. It has 3 churches, graded school, and manufactures of boots....Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1906
  Mendon, a post-village in Mendon township (town), Worcester co., Mass., 35 miles SW of Boston. Pop. of the town in 1900, 911.
  Lippincott's New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns ... in Every Portion of the Globe Publisher J.B. Lippincott Company, 1906
  
  
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  The Launch Nipmuc
  Lake Nipmuc Park, Mendon, Mass.
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  View from Lake. Lake Nipmuc Park, Mendon, Mass.
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  Unitarian Church
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  Looking toward the Entrance.
  Lake Nipmuc Park
  Mendon, Mass.
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  Mendon Center
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