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'Uxbridge, Massachusetts' is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 11,156 at the 2000 census.
History
Uxbridge, Massachusetts was first settled in 1662 and officially incorporated as a Town in 1727. Julie Woods is the current chair of the Board of Selectmen. Uxbridge was named after Uxbridge, England. Uxbridge, England derived its name from 'Wuxen Bridge' named after a 7th Century Anglo-Saxon tribe, known as the "Wuxen".
Uxbridge, like many Massachusetts communities has remnants of its vibrant history. There are numerous examples of colonial homes, brick commercial blocks, canal tow paths and textile mills. Some have their original appearance, others have been revitalized, and some are just shells with echoes of the past. It is this rich cultural history that attracts many to live in this community and call it home.
Pioneers
When pioneers entered this part of southern Worcester County (then Suffolk County) their ambition was to set up a prosperous town that would turn a profit. Founding families dreamed of settling a plantation for agricultural success, and were determined their little town would become self sufficient. In 1662, Squinshepauke Plantation was started at the 'Netmocke' settlement. The plantation was incorporated as the town of Mendon in 1667 consisting of eight miles square of Native American land. The land was purchased from the Nipmuc Indians ''“for divers good and vallewable considerations them there unto Moovinge and especiall for an in consideration of the summe of twenty fower pound Ster.''” The settlers were ambitious and set about clearing the roads that would mark settlement patterns throughout the town’s history. 'Mother' Mendon, as the town is called, gave “birth” to the towns of Blackstone, part of Bellingham, Hopedale, Milford, Millville, Northbridge, part of Upton and Uxbridge. Some early Massachusetts plantations and towns held slaves. Massachusetts was the first colony to legalize slavery in 1641, and the first new State to outlaw slavery in 1783, when American Independence was recognized, and the Revolutionary War came to an end. The second battle of the King Philip's War was fought here in 1675.
The settlers or 'proprietors' of Mendon gradually migrated southerly and westerly. Families staked out farmsteads on the west side of Nipmuc Pond in fertile flood plains of rivers. The intervales became valuable farm land and the cedar swamps were precious for cedar and plants needed in colonial medicines. Far from the saw mill, grist mill and meetinghouse, the settlers of West Mendon became increasingly independent. The lack of river crossings made regular contact with the center nearly impossible and gave a sense of unity to the western settlers. Pioneers (aka ''“rabble rousing western inhabitants”'' ) developed a vision of an independent town. On June 27, 1727, the town of Uxbridge was born. Uxbridge tired of being ignored by its parent town, gained confidence that it could succeed on its own. Surrounded by three major rivers, the Mumford River, West and Blackstone River, Uxbridge’s future as a thriving textile and commerce leader was practically guaranteed. Some of the earliest history of Uxbridge, Massachusetts, Mendon and Worcester County is found in the "History of Worcester County, Massachusetts, Embracing a Comprehensive History of the County from its earliest beginnings to the present time" By Rev. Abijah Perkins Marvin .
Taft Family Origins
Noteworthy among early Uxbridge settlers was Lydia Taft, a widow, who was allowed to vote in her deceased husband's place in an official Uxbridge town meeting in 1756. She is reported to be the first recorded legal woman voter in the United States. This is recognized as well by the Massachusetts legislature. Her vote was in favor of appropriating funds for the regiments engaged in the French and Indian War. Lydia's son, Bazaleel Taft, went on to become a well known Massachusetts legislator, and State Senator. His son, Hon. Bazaleel Taft, Jr. followed in a legislative career and in the Senate. Bazaleel Taft's home, built in 1794, has been beautifully restored as a fine dining inn, south of Uxbridge Center.
The famous Taft family had its American roots in Mendon and Uxbridge. The original Taft homestead was at Uxbridge, belonging to Robert Taft in 1680. Robert Taft was among the Town's founding Board of Selectmen in 1727. Robert Taft's descendants grew into a large politically active family with descendants who continue to be influential in Ohio and nationally. The Taft family in Uxbridge included the grandfather of President William Howard Taft. His homestead is now known as the historic Taft Tavern on Sutton Street in North Uxbridge. President George Washington stayed in this Inn in November of 1789, during his innaugural year, and this was recorded in a letter from our first Commander in Chief, to Mr. Taft, in December of 1789. President William Howard Taft returned here for his family reunions. President Taft was a Champion for World Peace and was the only sitting President to also serve as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. President Taft was reported to have remarked as he stepped off the train in Uxbridge in 1912, ''"Uxbridge,... I think I have more relatives here than in any town in America".'' In 1864, Judge Henry Chapin quoted a well known Uxbridge story as follows. A stranger came to town, met a new person and said, 'Hello Mr. Taft'. Mr Taft said, how did you know my name? The stranger replied, I figured that you were a Taft, just like the other 11 Tafts I have just met!"''
As a final footnote of Uxbridge's Taft history, Ezra Taft Benson, now called Ezra T. Benson, to distinguish him from his famous great grandson, Ezra Taft Benson, a Mendon native, famous as a key founding apostle of the LDS church, the Mormons, married Pamelia Andrius, of Uxbridge, on January 1, 1832, at Uxbridge, Massachusetts. He joined the Mormon Church at Quincy, Illinois in 1840 and then married again and became a polygamist.
Local lore
Local lore states that the northeast and southern parts of Uxbridge were originally settled by the Nipmuc people and the abundance of Indian Arrowheads in those areas would seem to confirm this story. The Blackstone River was called the Great River by the Nipmuc and they were “a people of the fresh waters”. The Nipmuc name does not refer to a specific village or tribe, but to the natives that inhabited almost all of Central Massachusetts into Connecticut and Rhode Island. The Nipmuc stayed within their homeland traveling from site to site with the seasons, while the Blackstone River ecosystem supported their agricultural and nutritional needs. What we do know about the Nipmuc locally is that during King Philip's War in 1675, Praying Indians (natives who converted to Christianity) were settled into Praying Indian Villages and at least two villages were located in Uxbridge (referred to as ''Waentug or Wacentug'', after the tribe that fished the rich waters). This article 'takes a walking tour' through the villages, hills and rivers of Uxbridge and narrates its history. The walking tour of this article starts in the southern part of Uxbridge.
Main Roads
The major artery was the Providence and Worcester Road and along this road south Uxbridge mushroomed. Roads fed off what is now Route 146A (The Lydia Taft Highway) and led into cedar swamps, moist cranberry bogs and deep woods. Agriculture was the mainstay and farms still dot the landscape; some belong to families of the original settlers. Quakers settled here from the Quaker community in Smithfield, RI, and brought with them their religion and their industrious ways.. A commercial center, Quaker City developed along the road known as the Quaker Highway. George Southwick established a general store and the Uxbridge Social and Instructive Library was located in the back room. The Quakers were abolitionists and South Uxbridge was the local heart of the Underground Railroad. Proximity to the Blackstone Canal and two rail roads made it an excellent stop on the route North. The Quakers built local mills and invested in rail roads. The Quakers built a beautiful meetinghouse, 'The Old Brick', in 1770 with bricks made at a brickyard across the street near the Blackstone River. A functional iron mine and forge were established here. Some of the earliest beginnings of the American Industrial Revolution included the local manufacturing of Conestoga wagon wheels, connected to Quaker heritage. Houses along Aldrich Street are made of local brick and bear the heritage of Quaker owners.
Deaths from Smallpox were recorded at the Quaker Meeting House in early South Uxbridge. The Town of Uxbridge voted to refuse {early primitive} New England style Smallpox innoculations in 1775). . This New England practice for innoculations preceeded Sir William Jenner's work in England in developing the ''Vaccinia'' or Cowpox vaccines for Smallpox (1796). Nearly 100 years earlier, at the end of the King Philip's War 1676 settlers in western Massachusetts brought blankets carrying Smallpox to the Native Americans during a cold New England winter. THe King Philip's War quickly ended. Paul Revere organized the first U.S. Board of Health in Massachusetts in 1799.
South Uxbridge had small mills on local brooks, ponds and streams. Water power from Emerson, Forge and Ironstone Brooks, powered the mills, but now attracts fishing with stocked trout. Lee Pond, Chockolog Pond and Ironstone Pond are best remembered as excellent swimming spots on a hot summer day. Village sections of South Uxbridge include: Albee, Aldrich, Chocolog, Happy Hollow, Ironstone and Scadden, reflecting Yankee pioneers and heritage . Scadden was home to a failed silver mine in the 1830's recorded in an ''Uxbridge Compendium'', edition in 1886. An Albee Road home was cited in a 1980 New York Times article as an Inn where President George Washington was actually "refused lodging", since the innkeeper's husband was away. "The house in Uxbridge had a good exterior appearance for a tavern, but the owner being from home, and the wife sick, we could not gain admittance", President Washington reoorded in his diary in 1789. Agriculture remains present in South Uxbridge side-by-side indusrial park development along the Blackstone River.
The first east-west route in North Uxbridge was the Boston-Hartford Turnpike. It started as a 'cart path leading to Jepson’s meadow and Colonel Crown’s land', meandering until it came to the hills and more Yankee farms. Yankee farmers fought a hard battle to farm the rocky hillsides, but these farms remain today. Historians recorded troop movemnts along this road on during the French and Indian War and it was also a major supply route during the War of 1812. The road was a section of the Middle Post Road set down by Benjamin Franklin; while simultaneously serving as the Ninth Massachusetts Turnpike, from which it received its name. The Thayer Tavern, on the Middle Post Road near Dunleavy Brook, served as part of the Underground railroad and George Washington dined there. The Hartford Turnpike, (Hartford Avenue) is a busy road that passes a working dairy farm and the business disrict of North Uxbridge. It begins at the Mendon border in open fields and wetlands, passes West Hill (one of the Praying Indian settlements), continues into Rice City, (once home to the Wood Tavern), a busy colonial tavern and probate court. The road crosses the Blackstone River at Rice City Pond and climbs up Stage Coach Hill. Passengers had to push the coach up the steep grade of "stage coach hill". Continuing west on Hartford Avenue, is Rogerson Village, home to the former Crown and Eagle Cotton Mill built over the Mumford River. The Crown Mill was named for Robert Rogerson's homeland, England, and the Eagle Mill for his adopted nation, the United States. The tasteful and esthetic mill village, the dream of Robert Rogerson, spared no expense building the mill, mansion, company store and mill worker homes. A large section of the mill burned in 1975 but was remodeled and turned into senior housing. From Rogerson Village you can bear right and go to Linwood, home to the French section of town called the Bowery. The French Canadians came to work in the mills and added much to the culture of the town. They had their own society and meeting hall, the Progressive Club and their own newspaper, ''Le Travailleur''. Going straight from the Crown and Eagle Mill the road comes to an important intersection in the North End. North Uxbridge was home to the Italians who settled in Uxbridge and was the “other” busy commercial and social center of town. The streets were filled with people and there was always something going on either in Lynch’s Drug Store or Tancrell’s Market. The road has a fork to the left that goes to the Rivulet section, and the Rivulet Mill. The turnpike road climbs up three hills, each one steeper than the previous. The first is Quarry Hill, home to the former Blanchard granite quarry whose stones lines the curbs of New York City, Ellis Island and the base and wall at the Statue of Liberty. The granite quarries of Uxbridge helped rebuild Boston after the Great Boston Fire of 1872. West of here, at Williams and Castle Hills, barns of the dairies once a major part of local life, still dot the landscape. The view from the hill tops near Douglas, Massachusetts is breathtaking. A summary history of Uxbridge is found on a state website.
Textile industry
Uxbridge was a prominent Massachusetts Mill town. The eastern part of town gave birth to a significant segment of the town’s, the valley's (and America's) textile industry. Uxbridge, and the Blackstone Valley, has some of the earliest remaining remnants of America's industrial revolution. At one point, up to 28 mills were operating here. The town became particularly known for its cashmere and woolen mills. The West River, Mumford River and Blackstone River were tapped for the power to run the mills. As in all mill towns, each section of town that sprouted up around a mill took on the name and the identity of the mill, and here the names of Hecla, Calumet and Wheelocksville are significant names in the memories of local residents. The town was extremely industrious by the mid 19th century. Uxbridge mills were already producing 2.5 Million yards of cloth yearly, by the mid 1850's. Each of the rivers and their tributaries became the hub of various mills and villages within the town of Uxbridge.
The Hecla section of town took its name from the Hecla Mill, most recently known as American Woolen. The Polish community, which lived along Hecla Street, was lined with food markets, cock fights and fun living. Calumet, grew up near the Calumet Woolen Mill which became the Stanley Woolen Mill and was owned by the Wheelock family. Stanley Woolen Mill was the last mill in town to close. It sold Union Blue uniform cloth in the Civil War. Its cloth was in high demand from top designers like ''Pierre Cardin'' and ''Bill Blass'' before it closed around 1990. Just south of here, at Elmdale, is the site of the Daniel Day Mill, the first woolen mill in Uxbridge, (1811), and the second oldest woolen mill in the United States, (after one in Watertown, Mass)
Fierce pride and competition developed with bowling leagues and baseball teams representing each mill. From the eighteen eighties, the weekly newspapers carried the results of their league contests. Each of the mills had its own farm and dairy milk route: Elmwood Farm belonged to the ''Waucantuck'' Mill, Elmdale Farms went with Elmdale Mill and the Hecla Mill, a division of the Calumet Mill, had Hecla Farms. Henry Street has majestic stands of yellow pines and scattered about the woods you can find evidence of early homesteads and rumored Underground Railroad tunnels. The serene beauty of 'Pout' Pond and adjacent Henry Legg Conservation Land add to the bucolic scenery of this section. "Pout" is a contraction of a local word for catfish aka "horn pout".
Stanley Woolen and ''Waucantuck'' Mills are being redeveloped. Stanley Woolen is a Public-private partnership for commercial rental space, and ''Waucantuck'' is being rehabbed for living and business space.
This historic valley reminds visitors that as concerns increase for global climate change, and reducing greenhouse gases, lessons from history can be learned once more about renewable energy from water power, and about tow paths and barges that transported thousand of tons of goods, allowing textile mills and an Industrial Revolution to flourish along the Blackstone River, "America's Hardest Working River".
Town center
Heading west from Wheelocksville and Hecla, travelers reached Uxbridge Center. The Center was bounded by Liberty, Independence and Prospect Hills. Two US Congressmen were elected from Uxbridge Center to serve the new nation in the early 19th Century, Benjamin Adams (1815-1823) and Phineas Bruce (1803). Phineas Bruce was unable to serve due to illness and died in Uxbridge in 1809. According to the US Treasury, (Revolutionary) Colonel (Seth) Reed of Uxbridge, Massachusetts was reported to have been influential in placing e pluribus unum on U.S. coins. Arthur MacArthur, Sr. lived here as a boy and later served as a Wisconsin acting Governor and on the State Supreme Court. Edward P. Bullard was born here and invented the vertical boring mill. Noted educator and historical writer, William Augustus Mowry, was born here.
The Center became prominent as Quaker City slowly faded away and agriculture became secondary to the Industrial Revolution. The Capron Mill, later known as Uxbridge Worsted and Bernat Mill, the saw mill, fulling mill and grist mill were here. The Capron Mill was started in 1820 and powered by water from the Mumford River. Uxbridge Center was home to the 'lunatic asylum' run by Dr. Samuel Willard who fought in Shays' Rebellion. Dr Willard was reported to have had his own eccentricities.
Dunking in the mineral spring pond behind the old inn was deemed to be an 'effective treatment for insanity' as was working on the good doctor’s farm. This pond (Shuttle Shop Pond) was a favorite ice skating spot for children for years until it was filled in by the town after the shop burned down in 1963. The Hotel Wilson (now known as the Uxbridge Inn) welcomed travelers to the town who came to enjoy the same healing waters that “treated” Dr. Willard’s patients. In the 1800’s, winter sleighing parties would travel from Mendon and spend a jolly night in the old inn.
Saver’s Bank saved the Uxbridge Inn from demolition by rebuilding the old landmark. The Whitmore Block, where the bank’s parking lot is now, was home to the infamous 'Bucket of Blood Tavern' and Sam Mabel’s Market. Uxbridge Center had the town's first electric street lights and telephones. Early town meetings were held in Taft’s Hall. The first Uxbridge Free Public Library was located in Barnes Jewelry Store. The town hall, built in 1883, was an important part of the social life of the community. Its large auditorium was where the first 'talking movies' were shown locally and live bands played here. During the 1940’s and 50’s, ice cream in Lynch’s store was required after the movies. Uxbridge churches and historic homes were located here. The Uxbridge Common is a very picturescue example of a typical New England town green.
During the early industrial revolution transportation of goods from the Blackstone Valley was a growing concern. Teamsters drove huge wagons loaded with textile goods to Woonsocket and to Worcester. This need gave way to an inland waterway, the Blackstone Canal. The 45 mile canal connected Worcester with Providence, the closest port city. The canal was built by Irish laborers in 1828 and these immigrant workers settled in Uxbridge. The Blackstone Canal was simply a mud ditch that meandered alongside the Blackstone River with a dirt tow path which allowed the boats to be pulled along the canal. There was a large granite lock at Goat Hill. The canal was not as successful as shareholders had hoped, but what it did achieve was the emergence of the valley as a premier exporter of textile fabrics. In 1848 railroads replaced the canal. In the past, no matter how bad times were, the mills always got back on their feet and workers would be called back to work the looms.
Military Uniforms and Music
The Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor records Uxbridge's place as a key to America's industrial past. The town has strong connections to America's military history. Uxbridge history begins with its first settlers involved in the bloodiest conflict in our history per capita, the King Philip's War, (its second battle was fought here). Next was the French and Indian War, which included troop movements here and Lydia Taft's voting. In the American Revolution, Uxbridge sons played important roles including Colonel Seth Reed, and other Colonels and officers. Lt. Simeon Wheelock and others answered the Lexington and Concord alarm and Bunker Hill. The War of 1812 moved supplies on (the Middle Post Road). Uxbridge played key roles in the Civil War. 259 Uxbridge sons served, many died, and Union blue uniforms were manufactured here. Uxbridge men served in each of the following: the Spanish American War, uniforms were made here, World War I, Allied uniforms were made here, and World War II United States Army uniforms were made here. In 1918, as America entered World War 1, the Spanish flu began in Worcester County, at nearby Camp Devans. The very first United States Air Force uniforms were designed and made here, "The Uxbridge Blue", in 1947. The same held true for the Korean War. But by the time of the Viet Nam War, the textile industry was fading quickly from New England. Uxbridge Veterans have of course also served in Viet Nam, the Gulf War, Afghanistan and Iraq.
Benjamin Emerick, founded the ''Captain James Buxton Fife and Drum Corps'' and re-created the military music of America's past, through a comprehensive re-enactment of "Martial Musick" in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. . Captain James Buxton was originally from Smithfield, RI, but had a key role in early South Uxbridge. A hymn's metric tune is named for Uxbridge and was written by Lowell Mason in 1830, entitled, "The Heavens Declare Thy Glory, Lord". The hymn is found in the 1889 edition of the Methodist Hymnal and in in hymnals of other denominations including Methodist-Episocpal, and Lutheran. [[1]]
Recent History
By the 1970’s, there would be no call back to work, the mills would start to close and the looms would be silent for the first time in 200 years. The rivers which for so long made Uxbridge a good place to live, had become a dumping ground for the enormous chemical dye vats. The Blackstone River lost its title as the hardest working river in America and gained the dubious distinction as one of the most polluted rivers in America. The downtown where you could buy anything your family would ever need, was now boarded up and abandoned. Uxbridge's road back to vitality was long but successful. The Blackstone River would also be restored to its natural state.
The Uxbridge Public Schools were written up in Parade Magazine in the 1990's as an example of a success story among smaller Massachusetts school districts. The community is growing again; the downtown area is undergoing a renaissance with arts centers and art stores attracting new people. The town now has a historic committee which helps homeowners preserve and protect historic houses for the benefit of homeowners and the neighborhood. Uxbridge is home to more than 60 houses of the "Federalist" Federal architecture style made popular in the 1780's.
Uxbridge is no longer known for its fine cashmere and woolen goods; it is now known for its many acres of Federal and state conservation lands and parks. Uxbridge is the mid point of the John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor of Rhode Island and Massachusetts which is part of the National Park Service. It is also the hub of the Blackstone River and Canal Heritage State Park at Uxbridge. It boasts a good portion of the scenic Blackstone River Bikeway. and the Southern New England Trunkline Trail. The Army Corps of Engineers maintains a wildlife refuge at the West Hill Dam, which was built to control devastating floods in the 1950's. The nature trails here allow hikers to walk the routes traveled by the Nipmuc , and depict how life is returning to the Blackstone River Valley.
At least three movies have been made in Uxbridge including two which included scenes at the Stanley Woolen Mill, Oliver's Story (1978), and The Great Gatsby (1974). World reknowned underwater photographer Brian Skerry, who works with the Jacques Cousteau organization and National Geographic, grew up in Uxbridge and resides here.
Uxbridge State Senator Richard T. Moore, is one of the nation's top speakers on health care reform having helped author the landmark Massachusetts health care reform legislation in 2006. > The town's economy is more diversified since the days of the textile industry. ''AC Tech'', ''Lenze Corp''. and ''Berroco'' call this a corporate home.
Rural attractions persist in 21st Century Uxbridge including a working dairy farm on Williams Hill with a very attractive creamery. A popular resort in South Uxbridge hosts weddings and there is is a nearby rustic golf resort at Chockolog. An upscale restaurant, is housed in the Hon. Bazaleel Taft, Jr. estate just south of Uxbridge Center. Uxbridge has developed its reputation for New England style weddings in a rural picturesque setting. The future is bright as the parks plan re-creations of horse drawn tow paths from the Blackstone River Canal with boat rides, shops and restaurants in the old mills.
Bernat Mill Fire
In the early morning of July 21, 2007, a devastating fire erupted at the historic ''Bernat Mill'' complex on Mendon and Depot Street. As many as 400 firefighters battled the blaze, but the complex was almost totally destroyed. The structure of 400,000 sqaure feet had ceased operating as an actual mill, and had been converted into space containing 65 small businesses at the time of the fire.[1]. The 10 Alarm fire was very well handled by local authorities. The regional two state disaster response and incident command management was viewed as a model in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The Uxbridge Mill fire that destroyed the ''Shops at Bernat Mill'' made National and local news for nearly a week. Senator John Kerry introduced Small Business Administration loans from the committee he chairs in the United States Senate to address the business losses in the Uxbridge Mill Fire which were estimated in the millions of dollars. An estimated 300-500 people lost jobs. There were very few injuries of firefighters and there was no loss of life. Governor Deval Patrick, the nations second ever and only current African-American governor, left the national governor's conference in Michigan to return to Uxbridge and be present for this aftermath, the state's first major disaster of his new administration. Governor Patrick filed state legislation to help the victims and businesses of the 'Uxbridge mill fire'. An historic side note for Uxbridge and its beginnings as a plantation, Deval Patrick took the oath of office as Governor on the Mendi Bible, which was given to then-Congressman John Quincy Adams by the freed slaves from the ship La Amistad(see Deval Patrick).
This same mill apppeared in the August 24, 1953 edition of ''Time Magazine,'' as an article entitled "The Pride of Uxbridge". The Bachman Uxbridge Worsted Company, was one of the most successful textile mills in New England at that time. [2]The original United States Air Force Uniform was dubbed and patented "the Uxbridge Blue", ''Uxbridge 1683'', after blue dye color selected at Bachman Uxbridge and used in manufacturing the uniforms' fabric in 1947. [3]
'latch hook yarn kits' were first developed here by ''Bernat Mill'' circa 1968. (unreferenced) The original mill, the Capron Mill, was built in 1820 at this site on the Mumford River at Uxbridge Center (see also Capron mill, under Town center).
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 78.7 km² (30.4 mi²). 76.5 km² (29.5 mi²) of it is land and 2.1 km² (0.8 mi²) of it (2.73%) is water.
Demographics
As of the census2 of 2000, there were 11,156 people, 3,988 households, and 3,034 families residing in the town. Local population estimates put the 2007 population at 12,800. The population density was 145.8/km² (377.6/mi²). There were 4,090 housing units at an average density of 53.5/km² (138.4/mi²). The racial makeup of the town was 98.04% White, 0.15% African American, 0.13% Native American, 0.61% Asian, 0.07% Pacific Islander, 0.30% from other races, and 0.70% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.95% of the population.
There were 3,988 households out of which 41.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 64.0% were married couples living together, 9.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 23.9% were non-families. 19.2% of all households were made up of individuals and 8.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.79 and the average family size was 3.22.
In the town the population was spread out with 29.2% under the age of 18, 5.8% from 18 to 24, 35.1% from 25 to 44, 20.0% from 45 to 64, and 9.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females there were 96.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 92.3 males.
The median income for a household in the town was $61,855, and the median income for a family was $70,068. Males had a median income of $47,969 versus $30,889 for females. The per capita income for the town was $24,540. About 3.6% of families and 4.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 5.0% of those under age 18 and 11.0% of those age 65 or over.
Government
See also
★ List of Registered Historic Places in Uxbridge, Massachusetts
References
1. Fire ravages old Uxbridge mill
2. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,818770,00.html The Pride of Uxbridge]
3. Getting the Blues
Footnotes
1. Marvin, AP; History of Worcester County, Massachusetts, Embracing a Comprehensive History of the County from its earliest beginnings to the present time; Vol I and Vol.lI; CF Jewitt and Company, Boston, MA; 1879; accessed via Google Books search; 8/19/07; (Uxbridge is referenced in Volume II p. 421-436)
2. Oldest/Firsts Within the Blackstone Valley; Blackstone Daily; link accessed 8/19/07 http://www.blackstonedaily.com/History&Heritage/firsts.htm.
3. Access Geneaology; extracted from Taft Genealogy. Accessed 8/19/07 http://www.accessgenealogy.com/surnames/taft.htm.
4. Copyrighted historical material of Salyesville and Smithfield RI; accessed 8/19/07;
http://www.kouroo.info/RSOF/SaylesvilleSmithfield.pdf
5. The Uxbridge Meeting House; Blackstone Daily; accessed 8/19/07 http://www.blackstonedaily.com/quaker.htm
6. The Conestoga Area Historical Society; The Conestoga Wagon; accessed 8/19/07 http://www.rootsweb.com/~pacahs/wagon.htm
7. Staunton River Tour; Halifax County, Virginia; Washington Passes Through Halifax; accessed 08/19/07; http://www.oldhalifax.com/county/GeoWashington.htm
8. Walking Tours; Uxbridge; The Blackstone Daily; Accessed 8/19/07 http://www.blackstonedaily.com/Outdoors&Nature/WTuxbridge.htm
9. Uxbride, MA Description; MA Info website; accessed 8/17/07 http://www.mass.info/uxbridge.ma/description.htm
10. Executive Office of Environmental Affiars/Preserving Massachusetts Water Resources/Watersheds/Blackstone River Watershed; accessed 8/19/07 http://www.mass.gov/envir/water/blackstone/blackstone.htm
11. Eds. Stattler, Rick; A Guide to Women's Diaries; in the Manuscript Collection of the Rhode Island Historical Society Library; Rhode Island Historical Society; 1997; http://www.rihs.org/mssinv/WomenGuide.htm accessed 8/19/07
12. Worcester Historical Museum website; Richard E. Greenwood Historian and Archaeologist
Rhode Island Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission; 175th Anniversary of the Blackstone Canal; The Blacksone Canal; Its Unique Historical Significance; accessed 8/19/07
http://www.worcesterhistory.org/bcinfo/bcinfo-home.html
13. Martial Musick in Uxbridge Masachusetts - 1727-present; Insight into tradition……. Fife and Drum bands in Uxbridge, MA 1727-2004 ; accessed 7/30/07 http://www.angelfire.com/music2/uxbmarmusic/
14. National Park Service; US Department of the Interior; John H. Chaffee Blackstone Valley National Heritage Corridor; Massachusetts/RhodeIsland; Birhplace of the Industrial Revolution; accessed 8/19/07 http://www.nps.gov/blac/
15. Mass.gov; Department of Conservation and Recreation; Blackstone River and Canal Heritage State Park; Accessed 8/19/07 http://www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/central/blst.htm
16. Blackstone River Bikeway: About the Bikeway; Blackstone Valley Chamber of Commerce; Accessed 8/19/07 http://www.blackstoneriverbikeway.com/
17. US Army Corps of engineers; West Hill Dam, Uxbridge Massachusetts ; accessed; July 30,2007; http://www.nae.usace.army.mil/recreati/whd/whdhome.htm
18. Boston Globe, December 5, 2006. The Rock Stars of Universal Coverage by J. Kaisser
http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2006/12/05/the_rock_stars_of_universal_coverage/
19. Harvard Library; from Google Books; Judge Henry Chapin; Address Delivered at the Unitarian Church in Uxbridge; 1864; p. 24; Published by Charles Hamilton Press; Worcester, Mass. 1881
20. Barry, John, The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague In History (Hardcover); by John M. Barry; 2005; New York Times Bestseller of 2005
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