Farwell Quarry

Farwell Quarry is a nature reserve in Town of Harvard, Worcester, Massachusetts. Farwell Quarry is situated nearby to the neighborhood Center of Town, as well as near the hamlet Camp Green Eyrie.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Fruitlands Museum and Oak Ridge Observatory.

Fruitlands Museum

Nature reserve

Photo: Daderot, Public domain.

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

The Oak Ridge Observatory, also known as the George R. Agassiz Station, is located at 42 Pinnacle Road, Harvard, Massachusetts. It was operated by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian as a facility of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory from 1933 until August 19, 2005.

Federal Medical Center, Devens

Prison

The Federal Medical Center, Devens is a United States federal prison in Massachusetts for male inmates requiring specialized or long-term medical or mental health care.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Harvard and Shirley.

Harvard

Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.

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.

Shirley

Photo: Bob Burkhardt, CC BY 3.0.

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.

Devens

Town

Photo: Faolin42, CC BY-SA 3.0.

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.

Farwell Quarry

Type: Nature reserve
Category: recreation area
Location: Town of Harvard, Worcester, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

42.5116° or 42° 30′ 42″ north

Longitude

-71.5849° or 71° 35′ 6″ west

Operator

Harvard Conservation Trust

Open location code

87JCGC68+M3

OpenStreetMap ID

way 1464585347

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=nature_reserve

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Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Center of Town and Camp Green Eyrie.

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