Sterling Center Town Common - Sterling, MA
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N 42° 26.281 W 071° 45.606
19T E 272981 N 4702101
The Town Common, a focal point of community activity, was levelled and graded during the 1799 construction of the second Meeting House.
Waymark Code: WM13E1Z
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 11/20/2020
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The Town Common, a focal point of community activity, was levelled and graded during the 1799 construction of the second Meeting House, and was the site of cattle shows for over one hundred years. Originally treeless, with present foliage planted in the 1880s, it once was surrounded by an iron fence and had an open bandstand at the south end, ca. 1899.
Sterling Common and First Church Grounds. For most of the 18th century, the only buildings in the Center were the meetinghouse , school, and pound, none of which survive today. The marshland comprising most of the center made it undesirable and thus undeveloped until after the Revolution. Contemporaries described the center as " a dark and almost impenetrable swamp, interspersed with grave knolls, crowned with rugged oaks"
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