Boxborough, Massachusetts Boxborough, Massachusetts Boxborough Town Hall Boxborough Town Hall Official seal of Boxborough, Massachusetts Boxborough is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
6.1 Boxborough Minutemen Company According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 10.4 square miles (27 km2), of which 10.4 square miles (27 km2) is territory and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2), or 0.48%, is water.
Boxborough is bordered by Littleton to the north, Acton to the east, Stow to the south, and Harvard to the west.
Prior to incorporation in 1783, the region that is now Boxborough was part of Stow, Harvard, and Littleton. Source: United States Enumeration records and Population Estimates Program data. In the town, the populace was spread out with 30.5% under the age of 18, 5.1% from 18 to 24, 34.3% from 25 to 44, 25.3% from 45 to 64, and 4.7% who were 65 years of age or older.
According to the 2010 Enumeration (https://clrsearch.com/01719_Demographics/Household-Income), the median income for a homehold in the town was $115,639 and the average income for a homehold was $147,625.
About 1.5% of families and 2.8% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 3.8% of those under age 18 and none of those age 65 or over.
Boxborough has one elementary school, Blanchard Memorial School.
Blanchard Memorial School persistently achieves MCAS (Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System) test scores inside the top ten of Massachusetts school districts. In the school year starting September 2014, the elementary school became part of the Acton-Boxborough Regional School District as a result of a town vote.
Children living in Boxborough have before ity for attendance, with any remaining spaces available for Acton children.
Prior to this, only upon reaching Junior high (grades 7 8) did students turn into part of the county-wide system, attending school in the neighboring town of Acton.
The region which became the town of Boxborough was first inhabited by the Native Americans of the Nipmuc and Pennacook tribes.
However, the territory in Boxborough was not settled until the beginning of the eighteenth century by farmers looking for fertile territory to establish farms.
On April 19, 1775, 21 men from Boxborough met at the Boaz Brown home on Hill road before marching with the companies of Littleton, Stow, Acton, Concord, and Harvard to the Battles of Lexington and Concord. Most of these men, previously farmers, would go on to serve the colonial militia for the remainder of the war. Sons of Simon Blanchard, descendant of some of the earliest pioneer of Boxborough (and killed amid the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759 amid the Seven Years' War), Calvin and Luther Blanchard, are two prominent revolutionary veterans.
Calvin railwaythe war and went on to be involved in early Boxborough politics.
Boxborough was born from the remote areas of Stow, Littleton, and Harvard.
A member of Middlesex County, Boxborough established a new county line between Middlesex and Worcester. On January 31, 1775, men of these outskirt-lands formed a "Sartain Society" which agreed to purchase the Harvard Old meeting-house to act as a town hall and a church. The citizens of Boxborough were denied registration to be an autonomous precinct three times before being accepted in 1782, then incorporated on February 25, 1783.
Besides the Blanchard family, a several other early pioneer of Boxborough were instrumental in its establishment as an autonomous district.
John Wetherbee and his family assembled homes in what would turn into Boxborough as early as 1717, and some historians consider John the first settler of the area. Silas Wetherbee, born a generation later, fought for a Stow business amid the Revolution, and gave the territory on which the new meeting-house and church was assembled after the war. Silas was not just a veteran and financial backer, but was also propel as an initial selectman.
The Wetherbee Family continues to influence Boxborough politics for a century to come.
Silas Taylor served as a captain in the Revolutionary War before serving as the first clerk of the precinct of Boxborough, as well as an initial selectman and assessor.
Other old Boxborough families include the Hager Family, the Wood Family, and the Stone family, each of which settled in the region before its incorporation and had men serve amid the Revolutionary War. Bennet Wood and Joseph Stone served as the first official Boxborough government, serving as the committee for the Sartain Society, along with moderator Henry Cooledge. Joseph Stone, originally from Harvard, was deeply involved in the area, serving as justice of the peace and a deacon of the congregational church until his death. The Wood Family was also influential in the early politics of Littleton; Bennet's father, Jeremiah, served as collector, selectman, and eventually treasurer. On October 16, 2005, the Boxborough Historical Society opened the Boxborough Museum.
Boxborough has fourteen distinct state, non-profit, conservation or municipal tracts of lands with trails suitable for a number of non-motorized activities. These are maintained by town volunteers and the town employees (mostly where mowing is required).
The Boxborough Mamils, a cycling group, meets regularly at Flerra Meadows for improve bike rides in Boxborough and neighboring towns.
Boxborough Minutemen Company The Boxborough Minutemen Company is a historical society established in Boxborough in 1967 with the goal of preserving the memory of the town's part in the American Revolution, as well as serving the community.
Following the Revolutionary War, the "Slam Bang Company" was established by patriotic men of Boxborough, eventually dissolving into the "Boxborough Light Infantry Company." Boxborough is known for its annual Fifer's Day celebration, put on by the Minutemen, which memorializes Luther Blanchard.
"Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Boxborough town, Middlesex County, Massachusetts".
Prior to incorporation in 1835, the region that is now Boxborough was part of Stow, Harvard, and Littleton.
"TOTAL POPULATION (P1), 2010 Enumeration Summary File 1".
"Massachusetts by Place and County Subdivision - GCT-T1.
"1990 Enumeration of Population, General Population Characteristics: Massachusetts" (PDF).
"1980 Enumeration of the Population, Number of Inhabitants: Massachusetts" (PDF).
"1950 Enumeration of Population" (PDF).
"1920 Enumeration of Population" (PDF).
"1890 Enumeration of the Population" (PDF).
"1870 Enumeration of the Population" (PDF).
Acton-Boxborough Regional High titled Blue Ribbon school - Acton, MA - The Beacon Archived November 8, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
Boxborough: A New England Town and Its People.
"Boxborough Minutemen Company".
Petitions, Remonstrances and Acts relating to Littleton and Boxborough, 1782 to 1869.
"Boxborough, MA: Path of the Patriots".
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