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Hubbardston, MA - History
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Welcome to the Hubbardston Home page. The Hubbardston Home page provides as much information as possible on Hubbardston. Knowing Hubbardston’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Hubbardston’s Home page, you will also find Hubbardston’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Hubbardston has a population of 4758. 50.2% of Hubbardston’s inhabitants are Male, and 49.8 are female. 59.5% of Hubbardston is married and 89% own their own home. The Average Home price is $288,405, and the average rent is $1,024. Household median income in Hubbardston is $100,255, and the individual median income is $41,399. Hubbardston’s Ethnic is the following: White(91.7%), Hispanic(3.8%), Asian(3.1%), Black(2.6%), Multiple(2.6%).
Hubbardston, the "Northeast Quarter" of Rutland, was incorporated as a separate district in 1767 and named for Thomas Hubbard (1702–1773), Commissary General of the Province of Massachusetts and Treasurer of Harvard College. It is reported in local history that in view of the honor of giving his name to the town, Hubbard promised to provide the glass for the windows of the first meeting house built in town.
To make his liberality more conspicuous, the people planned for extra windows, but when Hubbard died in 1773, his estate was so complicated that the town of Hubbardston received nothing and was obliged to glaze the windows at its own expense.In 1737 Eleazer Brown located on a farm of 60 acres given him by the proprietors of Rutland on the condition that he operate a public house or inn.
Until 1746, Brown and his wife were the only inhabitants of Hubbardston. After Eleazer's death (reportedly killed by a deer), Mrs. Brown was then the only occupant of town for several years, and she kept the public house for prominent travelers. In 1749, Israel Green moved into Hubbardston. His daughter, Molly Green, is reported to be the first child born in Hubbardston.
Mr. Green was the first chairman of the board of selectmen.The town's early economy was based on agriculture and small-scale chair, boot, and shoe manufacturing. It is described by historians as a poor town, sparsely settled and almost wholly agricultural, but having sawmills, potash works, and cottage industries such as the making of palm-leaf hats.
By the 19th century, dairy and berry farming and market gardening were major pursuits in the town. Immigrants from Ireland, French Canada, England, Sweden, and Finland moved to town to work on local farms.Hubbardston was represented by 65 men during the Revolutionary War.Captain Adam Wheeler, one of the leaders of Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising in central and western Massachusetts, was from Hubbardston.
In 1786, eighty men from the town marched to Worcester under Wheeler's command and, joining hundreds of other farmers, took control of the courthouse to protest the widespread foreclosures and seizures of property by creditors that occurred during the cash-poor 18th century.Hubbardston furnished 164 men during the Civil War.
44 were killed or died of illness.Hubbardston is home to the invention of the first backhoe swing frame developed in July 1947 by Vaino J. Holopainen (pronounced "Waino") and Roy E. Handy, Jr., (thus the company name "Wain-Roy") and assigned to Wain-Roy Corporation of Hubbardston, MA. In July 1948, patent # 2,698,697 was filed by Vaino J.
Holopainen.
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