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History of Rutland, Massachusetts, USA

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• 1686 - Rutland is settled
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
• 1713 - Rutland is incorporated
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
• 1764 - October 27 - A "very remarkable storm of snow with high winds" produced 22 inches at Rutland in central Massachusetts.
  
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  The Rufus Putnam House, Rutland, Massachusetts
  
  Historic Towns of New England. (1898). United Kingdom: G. P. Putnam's sons.
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•  1838 - Grist Mill Fire
  On Friday last, the grist mill and turning shop of Capt. Daniel Dammon, Jr., in the south part of Rutland, took fire about noon, and were wholly...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1845 - RUTLAND. [Pop. 1,260. Inc. 1722.]
  Rutland, though a small town, has been the fruitful mother of many towns, for her bounds once included Barre, Hubbardston, Oakham, part of...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1848 - Rutland
  This town was purchased of the Indians, in 1686, for £23 of the currency of that time, and a deed executed to Henry Willard, Joseph Rowlandson,...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1854 - Rutland
  Rutland, a post-township in Worcester co., Massachusetts, 50 miles W. by N. from Boston. Population, 1223.
  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.
  
  
• Rutland Massachusetts, 1890
  Rutland is a fine farming town of 963 inhabitants, in the central part of Worcester County, 55 miles west of Boston on the Massachusetts Central...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1895 - Rutland
  Rutland, a post-village in Rutland township, Worcester co., Mass., about 12 miles N.W. of Worcester, and 50 miles W. of Boston. It has a church, and...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1898 - Old Rutland, Massachusetts - The Cradle of Ohio by Edwin D. Mead
  The Old South Historical Society in Boston inaugurated in 1896 the custom of annual historical pilgrimages. It had learned from Parkman and Motley...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  View of Rutland Street, 1898
  
  Historic Towns of New England. (1898). United Kingdom: G. P. Putnam's sons.
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  View of Rutland Centre from Muschopauge Hill, 1898
  
  Historic Towns of New England. (1898). United Kingdom: G. P. Putnam's sons.
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  The Old Rutland Inn
  
  Historic Towns of New England. (1898). United Kingdom: G. P. Putnam's sons.
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• 1906
  Rutland, a post-village in Rutland township (town), Worcester co., Mass., 12 miles NW. of Worcester, on the Boston and Maine R. A state hospital for...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Main Str. Rutland, Mass.
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  Administration Building
  State Sanatorium, Rutland, Mass.
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  Community Hall and Library, Rutland, Mass.
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