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  History of Winchendon, Massachusetts, USA

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• The House of Representatives made the grant of New Ipswich Canada, now Winchendon, on June 10, 1735, in answer to a petition from Lt. Abraham Tilton of Ipswich.
  
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• Winchendon was officially incorporated in 1764,named after Nether Winchendon, Buckinghamshire, England, which itself was the site of land owned by Governor Francis Bernard, who signed the town's incorporation into law.
  
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• 1845 - WINCHENDON. [Pop. 1,754. Inc. 1764.]
  This town was granted to certain persons of Ipswich, in Essex county, for services in Canada, in 1690, and it was called Ipswich-Canada, until it...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1848 - Winchendon
  This town was granted by the general court, in 1735, to 60 persons, all of whom. excepting 8, belonged to Ipswich, in Essex county. It was called...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1854 - Winchendon
  Winchendon, a post-township of Worcester co., Massachusetts, intersected by the Cheshire railroad, 54 miles W. N. W. from Boston. It is drained by...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• Winchendon Massachusetts, 1890
  Winchendon lies in the northern border of Worcester County, 68 miles northwest of Boston on the Cheshire Railroad, which runs through the town,...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Central St., Winchendon, Mass.
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  Toy Town Tavern
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  Converse Toy Works, Winchendon, Mass.
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• 1906
  Winchendon, a banking post-village in Winchendon township (town), Worcester co., Mass., on Miller's River and on the Boston and Albany and the Boston ...Read MORE...