Spectacle Island

Spectacle Island is an islet in Worcester, Massachusetts. Spectacle Island is situated nearby to the hamlet Camp Green Eyrie, as well as near Still River.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Fruitlands Museum and Frederick Fiske and Gretchen Osgood Warren House.

Fruitlands Museum

Nature reserve

Fruitlands Museum in Harvard, Massachusetts, is a museum about multiple visions of America on the site of the short-lived utopian community, Fruitlands.

Frederick Fiske and Gretchen Osgood Warren House

House

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The Frederick Fiske Warren and Gretchen Osgood Warren House, known to the family as The Hutch, is a historic house at 42 Bolton Road in Harvard, Massachusetts.

Immaculate Heart of Mary School

School

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Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary refers to several traditionalist Catholic religious communities that trace their origins to the St. Benedict Center, founded by Catherine Goddard Clarke in 1940 in Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Still River and Harvard.

Still River

Hamlet

Photo: Faolin42, CC BY 3.0.

Harvard is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The town is located 25 miles west-northwest of Boston, in eastern Massachusetts. It is mostly bounded by I-495 to the east and Route 2 to the north.

Harvard

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Harvard is a town of 6,900 people in North County. It has been home to several non-traditional communities, such as Harvard Shaker Village and the utopian transcendentalist center Fruitlands.

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 3½ miles north of Spectacle Island.

Spectacle Island

Type: Islet
Categories: locality and landform
Location: Worcester, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

42.48866° or 42° 29′ 19″ north

Longitude

-71.59821° or 71° 35′ 54″ west

Elevation

344 feet (105 metres)

Open location code

87JCFCQ2+FP

OpenStreetMap ID

way 202879925

OpenStreetMap feature

place=islet

GeoNames ID

4951684

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