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Spencer, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
In 1784 Spencer was a major stopping place on the Old Boston Post Road's stage route between Boston and Hartford, and on to New York. Passengers changed stages in Spencer, as one coach would come from Boston and connect with one coming north from Hartford. Each stagecoach would turn around and return whence it came.
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Spencer includes: Smithville, Wire Village (Upper Wire Village), Hillsville, and Lower Wire Village (Proutyville).
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Birthplace of Elias Howe, Inventor of the Sewing Machine
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History, News and Stories of Spencer, Massachusetts, USA

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1721 - Spencer is settled
Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
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General Henry Knox and his troops passed through Spencer, Massachusetts in the winter of 1775-76 with a load of 59 cannons pulled by teams of oxen.
The cannons were captured from the British at Fort Ticonderoga and Crown Point. They were transported from Lake Champlain to Dorchester Heights,... Read MORE...
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1845 - SPENCER. [Pop. 1,604. Inc. 1753.]
Spencer was originally a part of Leicester.
The town is on elevated ground,, but the soil is good, and watered by several small streams... Read MORE...
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1848 - Spencer
The whole of this town was included in the original grant of Leicester. It was made a parish in the year 1744, by the name of the West Parish of... Read MORE...
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1854 - Spencer
Spencer, a post- village in Worcester co., Massachusetts, on the Western railroad, 62 miles W. S. W. from Boston, contains 2 or 8 churches.... Read MORE...
1873 - Wrong Vaccine
Doctor Fontaine, of Spencer, Mass, was held in $2,000 bonds yesterday for manslaughter in causing the death of a child by using small pox virus for... Read MORE...
1885 - Men of Brains - Some of the Distinguished American Inventors
Elias Howe, inventor of the modern sewing machine; born at Spencer, Massachusetts, in 1819; died in 1867; machinist; sewing machine patented in 1846. ... Read MORE...
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1888 - Spencer Fair
The Spencer Fair was established in 1888. -
Spencer Massachusetts, 1890
Spencer is an elevated and beautiful farming and manufacturing town in the southwesterly section of Worcester County, 18 miles from Worcester and 62... Read MORE...
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1895 - Spencer
Spencer, a post-village in Spencer township, Worcester co, Mass., 1 1/ 2 miles N, of Spencer Station of the Boston & Albany Railroad, and about 12... Read MORE...
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1906
Spencer, a banking post-village in Spencer township (town), Worcester co., Mass., on the Boston and Albany R., and about 12 miles W. of Worcester.... Read MORE...
1907 - WOMAN HURT AS AUTO TURNS OVER
Spencer, Nov. 24 - Mrs. Justin D. Anderson, wife of the president of the Hartford Rubber Works Company of Hartford, Conn., was severely injured... Read MORE...
1910 - HOTEL BURNED.
Spencer, Mass., Oct. 7. - Through smoke-filled corridors the thirty guests of the Massasoit house, the largest hotel in Spencer, made hurried exits... Read MORE...
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