Natick, Massachusetts
Natick, Massachusetts Natick center Natick center Official seal of Natick, Massachusetts Natick / ne t k/ is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
Natick is positioned near the center of the Metro - West region of Massachusetts, with a populace of 32,786 at the 2010 census.
Only 10 miles (16 km) west from Boston, Natick is considered part of the Greater Boston area.
The center of populace of Massachusetts in 2000 was positioned in Natick. A 2014 census shows Natick's populace was 34,230.
This means between 2010 and 2014 Natick interval 3.6%, making it one of the quickest burgeoning neighborhoods in the Boston area. 5.1 Natick Center 5.2 South Natick 5.3 East Natick 5.4 West Natick The name Natick comes from the language of the Massachusett Native American tribe and is generally considered to mean place of hills. However, a more accurate translation may be place of (our) searching, titled to jubilate John Eliot's prosperous search for a locale for his Praying Indian settlement. Natick was first settled in 1652 by John Eliot, a Puritan missionary born in Widford, Hertfordshire, England who received a commission and funds from England's Long Parliament to settle the Massachusett Indians on both sides of the Charles River, on territory deeded from the settlement at Dedham.
They were called Praying Indians Natick was the first and for a long time served as the center of Eliot's network of praying towns.
While the suburbs were largely self-governing under Indian leaders, the praying Indians were subject to rules governing conformity to English Puritan culture (in practice Natick, like the other praying towns, evidenced a combination of traditional and English culture and practices).
Natick was the first and best documented of such settlements.
In November 1675, amid King Philip's War, the Natick Indians were sent to Deer Island.
The Indian village did not fully recover, and the territory held in common by the Indian improve was slowly sold off to white pioneer to cover debts, and, by 1785, most of the Natick Indians had drifted away.
In 1775, both English and Praying Indian people of Natick participated in the Battles of Lexington and Bunker Hill, as well as serving in the Continental Army.
The names of the Praying Indian soldiers from Natick are memorialized on a contemporary marker, along with all of Natick's Revolutionary War veterans, on a contemporary marker on Pond St near downtown Natick. senator born in 1812 who became eighteenth Vice President of the United States (1873 1875), and who lived most of his life in Natick as a shoemaker and schoolteacher and was known as the "Natick Cobbler", is buried there.
He is the namesake of one of Natick's middle schools.
Although Natick was primarily a farming town, the invention of the sewing machine in 1858 led to the expansion of a several shoe factories.
The company flourished and peaked by 1880, when Natick, with twenty-three operating factories, was third in the country in the quantity of shoes produced.
Natick was famous for its brogan (shoes), a heavy ankle-high boot worn by soldiers in the American Civil War.
In 1874, a great fire in downtown Natick completed 18 company blocks, two shoe factories, the Town Hall, Natick's only fire engine home and the Congregational Church, as well as many private homes.
In 1875, Natick's new Central Fire Station was instead of on Summer Street and opened with grand ceremony on the same town/city block where the great fire was first identified.
The Central Fire Station is now the home of a private non-profit improve performing arts center called The Center for Arts in Natick (TCAN).
Miles 8 through 12 of the Boston Marathon run through Natick on Patriots Day every year along Route 135/Central St., and thousands of inhabitants and visitors line the road to watch.
Natick borders the suburbs of Wellesley, Wayland, Weston, Framingham, Sherborn and Dover.
Climate data for Natick, Massachusetts (1981 2010 normals) Natick Center Natick Center, which is also known as Downtown Natick, is positioned at the intersection of Central Street and Main Street and serves as the civic and cultural core of the town.
Municipal buildings like the Natick Town Hall, Natick Fire Department, Natick Police Department and Morse Institute Library are positioned here along East Central Street.
Also positioned directly downtown is the Natick Town Common where many town affairs and improve activities are held.
Natick Center station, positioned in the downtown area, is served by the MBTA Commuter Rail Framingham/Worcester Line.
The Massachusetts Cultural Council voted unanimously Tuesday, August 21, 2012 to make Natick Center one of the newest state-designated cultural districts, the tenth precinct to win this designation from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Natick Center Cultural District is anchored by The Center for Arts in Natick, Morse Institute Library and the Natick Common.
South Natick, known for its scenic nature, is where the Native American pioneer first appeared and began the town on the shores of the Charles River.
Housing developers like Martin Cerel lived in South Natick, and thus refrained from building primary tract neighborhoods in this part of town.
Most South Natick inhabitants consider themselves to have a strong, separate cultural identity from the rest of Natick.
It is the only improve in Natick that can be separately addressed officially via the US Postal Office, and street signage such as a sign positioned along Route 16 coming from Wellesley communicates arrival in "So.
East Natick is a improve of Natick that is positioned along Oak Street and at the intersection of Oak Street and Worcester Street.
A sports and tennis club is positioned in East Natick off Oak St.
West Natick is a large section of Natick that borders the town of Framingham.
The Natick Mall, as well as the strip mall called Sherwood Plaza with its office Industrial Park behind, are considered to be the commercial core of West Natick.
There are many businesses in West Natick along West Central Street as well as another MBTA Commuter Rail station in addition to the one downtown.
The region in West Natick, along Route 135 is the most densely populated section of town, with its thousands of condominiums and apartements clustered athwart the street from the train station.
Natick is a small town, and thus, the various sections of tract evolution homes are considered neighborhoods.
One of the earliest post World War II developments in West Natick, the homes are colonial in style, with street names reminiscent of the Robin Hood legend.
The Wethersfield region of Natick is a residentiary neighborhood North of Route 9.
Just south of the Natick Common, Cottage Street begins what is generally called Little South, titled so because of its adjacency to South Natick.
The best known landmarks in Little South are a WWII monument dedicated to the declined soldiers from Natick, and The Tobin School, a private daycare and elementary school that has two large, attractive buildings off of Cottage St.
Eliot St., which runs alongside to the Charles River, boasts some of the earliest and nicest homes in Natick.
Just before South Natick begins, there is a beautiful Virgin Mary statue on a large modern on the south side of the Charles River, enveloped by graceful pine trees.
Natick is surrounded, on three sides, by five of the ten most well-to-do suburbs in Massachusetts with Wayland to the north, Weston to the northeast, Wellesley to the east, Dover to the southeast, and Sherborn to the southwest.
Natick has representative town meeting form of government(consisting of 180 members) with a Board of Selectmen and a Town Administrator. The members of the Board and the dates their terms end are(as of December 2016): The Natick Public School District operates the following schools: Natick High School; The High School building on the shore of Dug Pond, was opened in 2012. The new building design is based on a model allowed by the state of Massachusetts.
Brandon School and Residential Treatment Center, a school inside a residentiary treatment center Horatio Alger, Jr., minister, author of children's books with a rags to riches theme, settled in Natick in 1860 and assembled his family home in South Natick Darren Flutie, CFL and NFL veteran who attended Natick High School before going to Boston College; 2nd all time in receptions in the CFL.
Doug Flutie, NFL and CFL veteran who attended high school in Natick, before going to Boston College; retired from the New England Patriots after the 2005 06 season; resides in Natick, 50th Heisman Trophy winner; also played for many other NFL teams, including the Buffalo Bills Alison Fraser, Broadway performer and two-time Tony Award nominee interval up in Natick; graduated from Natick High School Dan La - Couture, Grew up and went to school in Natick and played hockey for BU.
William Nutt, moved to Natick in 1856, went to Kansas to oppose pro-slave forces there in 1858 and was an organizer of the Natick Shoe Strike in 1860.
Her novel "Old Town Folks" was written while she was living in Natick and tells the story of her husband's family.
Eliot Church in South Natick, Mass.
The library overlooks the Charles River in South Natick.
The Natick Historical Society resides in the lower portion of the building.
Temple Israel of Natick, Natick's earliest Jewish church, is positioned on Hartford Street.
The Natick Historical Society, positioned in the lower level of the Bacon Free Library.
Archives and exhibits on John Eliot and Praying Indians, natural history collections, life amid colonial times, early republic and industrialized revolution, memorabilia of famous Natick people.
Army Soldier Systems Center (SSC) (Also known as The Natick Army Labs), a complex of military R&D facilities, produces military-use items such as field rations, personal protective field equipment, and specialized uniforms.
Natick Mall, managed by General Growth Properties, Inc.
The Center for Arts in Natick (TCAN), positioned in Natick's historic Central Fire Station, is a performance venue for musicians in jazz, folk, classical, and modern genres.
Famous for its steamed hot dogs, Casey's originated as a horse-drawn lunch wagon that was parked on Natick Common.
The cemetery is positioned on Boden Lane, to the right of Beaver Dam, and directly athwart the street from the Chabad Center of Natick.
The Natick Community Organic Farm, positioned in South Natick on conservation land.
Natick Station Tree The station tree is a 500-year-old black oak that the initial surveyors used to mark the boundary between Natick and what was then part of Needham.
One other notable landmark tree the Eliot Oak next to the Eliot Church in South Natick was removed in 1936 after the installation of underground gas lines damaged the root system, ultimately killing it.
The Chabad Center in Natick is a Jewish house of worship and Jewish educational center which is dedicated to strengthening Jewish awareness in the Metrowest area.
Sassamon Trace Golf Course, assembled up on the former town landfill, is a branch of the Natick Recreation Department.
Natick's Recycle Center, adjoining to the town-owned golf course, and the high school athletic fields, serves the town's recycle needs.
Patrick's Church, positioned in Natick center, is Natick's tallest structure, and is also the biggest Roman Catholic Parish in Natick. Natick appears on the Family Guy episode "Da Boom" when the family sets out to the town after Peter reveals that there is a Twinkie factory there (Natick did contain a Hostess factory until 2007).
To solvers of crossword puzzles such as those of the New York Times and Los Angeles Times, natick refers to any square a solver cannot fill in correctly without guessing because the solver does not know either clue that passes through it.
Natick appears in the 2015 video game Fallout 4, which is set in the greater Boston region (referred to in the game as The Commonwealth).
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