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Oak Ridge Observatory

The Oak Ridge Observatory, also known as the George R. Agassiz Station, is located at 42 Pinnacle Road, . It was operated by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian as a facility of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory from 1933 until August 19, 2005.
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  • Type: Building
  • Description: observatory in Harvard, Massachusetts
  • Also known as: “George R. Agassiz Station”
  • Address: 42 Pinnacle Road, Harvard, MA

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include North Cemetery and Nourse-Farwell House.

Cemetery
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is situated 2 miles southeast of Oak Ridge Observatory.

House
The is located in the Harvard Center Historic District, a U.S. Historic District in the center of . The house is believed to have been built in c. is situated 1½ miles west of Oak Ridge Observatory.

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 . is situated 2 miles southwest of Oak Ridge Observatory.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Harvard and Boxborough.

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

Village
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Acton is a town in with a population of 24,000 in the 2020 census. is a town with a population of about 6,000. Maynard is a town with a population of 11,000. Stow is a town with a population of 7,000. is situated 2½ miles southeast of Oak Ridge Observatory.

Hamlet
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is a village located on the west side of the town of , , , United States, just north of the in where it converges with the . is situated 3 miles west of Oak Ridge Observatory.

Oak Ridge Observatory

Latitude
42.50538° or 42° 30′ 19″ north
Longitude
-71.55759° or 71° 33′ 27″ west
Open location code
87JCGC4R+5X
Open­Street­Map ID
way 213418392
Open­Street­Map feature
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Wiki­data ID
Q132144
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Ukrainian—“Oak Ridge Observatory” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Օուկ Ռիջ աստղադիտարան”
  • Catalan: “observatori Oak Ridge”
  • Chinese: “橡树岭天文台”
  • Chinese: “橡樹嶺天文台”
  • Chinese: “橡樹嶺天文臺”
  • Dutch: “Oak Ridge Observatorium”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مرصد اوك ريدج”
  • Esperanto: “Observatorio Oak Ridge”
  • French: “observatoire Oak Ridge”
  • French: “Observatoire Oak Ridge”
  • German: “Oak-Ridge-Observatorium”
  • Italian: “osservatorio di Oak Ridge”
  • Italian: “Osservatorio di Oak Ridge”
  • Japanese: “アガシ観測所”
  • Luxembourgish: “Oak-Ridge-Observatoire”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Oak Ridge Observatory”
  • Norwegian: “Oak Ridge Observatory”
  • Russian: “Ок-Ридж”
  • Swedish: “Oak Ridge-observatoriet”
  • Ukrainian: “Ок-Ридж”
  • Ukrainian: “Оук-Ридж”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Oak Hill and Noxon Conservation Restriction (private).

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