Ye Olde Commons

Ye Olde Commons is a park in Town of Charlton, Worcester, Massachusetts. Ye Olde Commons is situated nearby to the school building District No. 2 Schoolhouse, as well as near the park Militia Lot.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Militia Lot and Rider Tavern.

Militia Lot

Park

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Militia Lot is a park, which is situated 1,900 feet north of Ye Olde Commons.

Rider Tavern

Historic building

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The Rider Tavern is an historic tavern on Stafford Street in the Northside Village Historic District of Charlton, Massachusetts. The tavern, now a large three story wood-frame building, was built in 1797, and was for many years an important stop on the stagecoach road. Rider Tavern is situated 2,200 feet north of Ye Olde Commons.

Northside Village Historic District

Historic site

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The Northside Village Historic District encompasses a rural village center on Stafford Road in northern Charlton, Massachusetts. Located at the junction of Stafford Road with Northside and Cemetery Roads is a small cluster of residential buildings, developed beginning in 1735 around a small tanning business, and later as a stagecoach stop. Northside Village Historic District is situated 2,200 feet north of Ye Olde Commons.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Charlton and Oxford.

Charlton

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Charlton is a small town in Central Massachusetts located outside of Worcester. Charlton is primarily a bedroom community, though there are a number of businesses in the center of town and especially along the Route 20 corridor.

Oxford

Town

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Webster is a small town of about 16,000 in the South County region of Central Massachusetts along the Connecticut border. It was founded in 1832 by Samuel Slater, one of the initiators of the United States Industrial Revolution. Oxford is situated 5 miles southeast of Ye Olde Commons.

Spencer

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Spencer is a small town in the Worcester Hills of Central Massachusetts near Worcester. As a rural community, there is not much in the way of nightlife but there are many opportunities for outdoor exploration and recreation.

Ye Olde Commons

Type: Park
Category: recreation area
Location: Town of Charlton, Worcester, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

42.15888° or 42° 9′ 32″ north

Longitude

-71.95379° or 71° 57′ 14″ west

Open location code

87JC525W+HF

OpenStreetMap ID

node 4633921014

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=park

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include District No. 2 Schoolhouse and William T. G. Morton Monument.

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