Ayer
Ayer is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. Originally part of Groton, it was incorporated February 14, 1871, and became a major commercial railroad junction.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Ayer Town Hall and Ayer station.
Ayer station
Railway stop
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Ayer station is an MBTA Commuter Rail station located off Main Street in the Ayer Main Street Historic District of Ayer, Massachusetts. It serves the Fitchburg Line.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Devens and Shirley.
Devens
Town
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Devens is a regional enterprise zone and census-designated place in the towns of Ayer and Shirley and Harvard in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. It is the successor to Fort Devens, a military post that operated from 1917 to 1996. Devens is situated 2 miles southwest of Ayer.
Shirley
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Shirley is a city in Merrimack Valley with a population of 7,000. The town was named for former Governor William Shirley, and was settled in 1720 and incorporated in 1775.
Groton
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Groton is a town of about 10,500 people in Middlesex County, in the Merrimack Valley region of Massachusetts. Groton, like a lot of towns in New England, has a plethora of historic homes and structures to see.
Ayer
- Categories: town in the United States and locality
- Location: Town of Ayer, Middlesex, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
42.55958° or 42° 33′ 35″ northLongitude
-71.58826° or 71° 35′ 18″ westPopulation
8,480Elevation
240 feet (73 metres)United Nations Location Code
US AEROpen location code
87JCHC56+RMOpenStreetMap ID
node 158812524OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Ayer” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “آير”
- Catalan: “Ayer”
- Cebuano: “Ayer”
- Chechen: “Эр”
- Chinese: “艾尔”
- Chinese: “艾爾”
- Chinese: “阿耶尔”
- Dutch: “Ayer”
- French: “Ayer”
- German: “Ayer”
- Italian: “Ayer”
- Japanese: “エア (マサチューセッツ州)”
- Japanese: “エア”
- Kazakh: “Айэр”
- Kirghiz: “Айэр”
- Mazanderani: “آیر (ماساچوست)”
- Mazanderani: “آیر”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ayer”
- Persian: “آیر، ماساچوست”
- Persian: “آیر”
- Polish: “Ayer”
- Portuguese: “Ayer”
- Serbian: “Ayer, Massachusetts”
- Serbian: “Ayer”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ayer, Massachusetts”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ayer”
- South Azerbaijani: “آیر، ماساچوست”
- Spanish: “Ayer (Massachusetts)”
- Spanish: “Ayer”
- Swahili: “Ayer, Massachusetts”
- Swahili: “Ayer”
- Swedish: “Ayer”
- Tatar: “Эр”
- Turkish: “Ayer”
- Ukrainian: “Ер”
- Volapük: “Ayer”
- Welsh: “Ayer, Massachusetts”
- Welsh: “Ayer”
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