Littleton, Massachusetts Littleton, Massachusetts Official seal of Littleton, Massachusetts Location in Middlesex County in Massachusetts Location in Middlesex County in Massachusetts Littleton (historically Nipmuc: Nashoba) is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
For geographic and demographic knowledge on the neighborhood of Littleton Common, please see the article Littleton Common, Massachusetts.
6.1 Littleton enhance schools Littleton was first settled by white pioneer in 1686 and was officially incorporated by act of the Massachusetts General Court on November 2, 1714.
The town was also the locale of the sixth Praying Indian village established by John Eliot called Nashoba Plantation, on the territory between Lake Nagog and Fort Pond.
In his book, An Historical Sketch Town of Littleton (1890), Herbert Joseph Harwood wrote: George Lyttleton, M.P., one of the commissioners of the treasury [one time Chancellor of the Exchequer], and that in acknowledgment he sent from England a church-bell as a present to the town but on account of the error in spelling by substituting "i " for "y," the present was withheld by the person having it in charge, who gave the excuse that no such town as Lyttleton could be found, and sold the bell." The minutemen and militia of Littleton marched and fought at Concord and the Battle Road on April 19, 1775.
They marched from there through what is now Boxborough Depot and over Littleton Rd/Boxborough Rd to Newtown Road (Littleton), up over Fort Pond Hill (stopping briefly at the Choate Farm) and along Newtown Rd (Acton) to Acton Center.
The town, as stated to small-town lore, did have a contingent of Loyalists who remained in town after the revolution and thwarted attempts to rename King Street as Main, Washington, or Adams Streets.
This has been the origin of ribbing from neighboring suburbs calling Littleton a Tory town.
Author John Hanson Mitchell wrote a book titled Ceremonial Time which details a history of fifteen thousand years over one square mile positioned inside the town.
Even with the influx of Roman Catholic immigrants from Ireland, Canada, and Italy into Middlesex County, Littleton remained a dominantly Yankee town with the bulk of the populace belonging to the Congregational Church of Littleton, The First Baptist Church, and First Church Unitarian churches.
Due to the Yankee character of the town, it was notedly dry amid Prohibition and the Rowse family, which then owned New England Apple Products (later Veryfine), were known for their integrity and honesty characterized by their refusal to do company with bootleggers in a state where Prohibition was overwhelmingly unpopular.
Alcohol was first allowed to be sold in Littleton in 1960 in two locations, the Johnson's store at the Depot and the Nashoba Package store at Donelan's shopping center.
Many of the Irish, Italian, Quebecois, and Finnish families ended up moving to Littleton in the 1950s and 1960s after coming out from their neighborhoods in Arlington, East Boston, Cambridge, Lowell, and Somerville.
Due to its locale between Fort Devens and Hanscom AFB, Littleton became a prominent location for military retirees from the 1960s to the present day.
In the late 1940s to 1950, cottages around Long Lake off Goldsmith, on the Littleton side of Forge Pond (called Lake Mattawanakee), along Spectacle Pond, and beside Mill Pond off Harwood Ave were either winterized or torn down and replaced by bungalows and Capes.
At the same time, new assembly went up along New Estate Road, Whitcomb Ave, and Tahattawan Road.
From 1955 through 1965, Snow Village (off Great Road about a quarter mile before Power Road formerly Snake Hill Road), Edsel Road (Kimball territory behind the current Post Office running up the hill on the right of Goldmith Street), and lower Hartwell Ave (in the subdivision abutted by the cemetery, King St, and Hartwell Ave) were assembled with ranch homes and larger Capes.
In the late 60s and early 1970s, stretches along Harvard Road, Taylor Street, Liberty Square, Foster Street, Mill Road, and Grist Mill Road saw some of the first split-levels and five-bedroom Colonials go up.
IBM moved their New England corporate center to Littleton in mid 2008.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 17.5 square miles (45 km2).
Littleton borders the following towns: Groton, Westford, Acton, Boxborough, Harvard, and Ayer.
Source: United States Enumeration records and Population Estimates Program data. Reuben Hoar enhance library, Littleton, 1891 The enhance Reuben Hoar Library first opened in 1887. In fiscal year 2008, the town of Littleton spent 1.5% ($432,744) of its budget on its enhance library some $49 per person. Littleton enhance schools Littleton High School new building 2001 Littleton Middle School new building 2006 Nashoba Valley Technical High School enhance county-wide vocational technical high school positioned in Westford Parker Charter Essential School a enhance charter school in Devens, Massachusetts that serves students in grades 7 to 12.
Applewild School, established in 1957, - a private, autonomous co-educational day school for grades Preschool - 8th undertaking positioned in Fitchburg, MA.
Oak Meadow Montessori School a private, autonomous Montessori school serving Pre-K (age 3) through 8th undertaking is the only private school positioned inside Littleton.
Concord Academy a private, co-educational, autonomous, college preliminary school for grades 9 12, positioned in Concord, MA.
The Fenn School an all-boys private school in Concord, MA serving grades 4 9.
Country Day School of the Holy Union - coeducational Roman Catholic elementary school, Pre-K through 8th grade, in Groton, MA run by the Sisters of the Holy Union.
Groton School a private, Episcopal, college preliminary boarding school for grades 9 12 positioned in Groton, Massachusetts.
Lawrence Academy at Groton a private, co-educational preliminary school for grades 9 12 positioned in Groton, Massachusetts.
Middlesex School a private, autonomous preliminary school for grades 9 12 positioned in Concord, Massachusetts.
Nashoba Brooks School an autonomous co-educational school for Pre-K (age 3) through 3rd undertaking and all-female undertaking 4th through 8th grade.
Academy of Notre Dame co-educational Roman Catholic elementary school, K1 through 8th grade, in Tyngsborough, Massachusetts, and an all-girls Roman Catholic preliminary school for grades 9 12 run by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur Littleton Community Television (LCTV) has a new and improved studio at 37 Shattuck Street behind the town offices at the Littleton Town Hall.
Freight travels daily through Littleton over the tracks of the historic Stony Brook Railroad.
The line presently serves as a primary corridor of Pan Am Railway's District 3 which joins New Hampshire and Maine with Massachusetts, Vermont, and New York. Greg Hawkes, keyboard player for the 1970s-1980s New Wave group, The Cars, lived in Littleton amid the band's early years before moving to Lincoln.
Littleton Historical Society An Historical Sketch Town of Littleton, by Herbert Joseph Harwood, 1890 "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).
History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Volume 1 (A-H), Volume 2 (L-W) compiled by Samuel Adams Drake, presented 1879 and 1880.
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