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Mendon is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 6,228 at the 2020 census. [1] Mendon is part of the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor, an early center of the industrial revolution in the United States. Mendon celebrated its 350th anniversary on May 15, 2017.
The Town Board, as the executive body of the Town, acts as a unit and must function as a body. An individual Board member may not unilaterally act on behalf of the Town Board. No Town Board Member has more or less authority than any other Board member. Therefore, no Board member can legally act independently for the others or outside the Board.
Mendon began in 1667, and burned in King Phillips War. Nipmuck joined the native uprising, and many died. Western Mendon became Uxbridge in 1727, and Farnum House held the first town meeting. John Adams’ uncle, Nathan Webb, was the first called minister of the colony's first new Congregational church in the Great Awakening.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 38.1 square miles (99 km 2), of which 0.03% is water. Aitken State Forest is located in Mendon. The state land covers 918 acres (3.72 km 2 ) and includes a hiking trail up Bald Mountain (2,090 ft), hunting, primitive camping, cross-country skiing and snowmobiling.
The National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday that poor design contributed to the derailment in the north-central Missouri town of Mendon , which killed four people and injured 146 others.
The Town Hall was extensively renovated in 2013. Northbridge is organized and administered as a town under Massachusetts law. The Board of Selectmen exercises executive functions, while the annual Town Meeting functions like a city council. Police, public works, the board of health, fire department and schools are part of the town government.
BOSTON — The House has passed a $58 billion budget proposal for fiscal 2025, and it includes three amendments totaling $325,000 that would benefit Mendon.. The amendments were among nine filed ...
18th century. Captain James Buxton, 1745–1817, Smithfield, Providence County, Rhode Island Colony, [2] was an American Revolutionary War Captain from the border of the towns of Smithfield in Rhode Island, and Uxbridge, Massachusetts. Buxton was a commissioned military officer who attained the rank of captain in the American War for Independence.