Shirley Center

Shirley Center is a neighborhood in Shirley, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Shirley Center is situated nearby to the neighborhood North Shirley, as well as near Woodsville.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Shirley Town Hall and First Parish Meetinghouse.

First Parish Meetinghouse

Church

Photo: Daderot, CC BY-SA 3.0.

First Parish Meetinghouse is a church.

Shirley Town Pound

Historic site

Photo: Faolin42, CC BY 4.0.

Shirley Town Pound is a historic site.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Devens and Ayer.

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 3 miles southeast of Shirley Center.

Ayer

Village

Photo: Faolin42, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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. Ayer is situated 3½ miles east of Shirley Center.

Lunenburg

Town

Photo: Faolin42, CC BY 3.0.

Lunenburg is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 11,782 at the 2020 census. It contains the census-designated place of the same name. Lunenburg is situated 4 miles northwest of Shirley Center.

Shirley Center

Type: Neighborhood
Also known as: “Shirley Centre”
Category: locality
Location: Shirley, Middlesex, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

42.57231° or 42° 34′ 20″ north

Longitude

-71.6509° or 71° 39′ 3″ west

Elevation

404 feet (123 metres)

Open location code

87JCH8CX+WJ

OpenStreetMap ID

node 158812081

OpenStreetMap feature

place=neighbourhood

GeoNames ID

4950851

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