Homes for Sale, Real Estate Agents and Information about
Westminster, MA
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Westminster, MA below
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Population
6,907 people. (212nd in Massachusetts.)
Official Town Website
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The Town of Westminster is a suburban hill town which was originally the
six-square mile Narragansett Township Number 2, granted to veterans and
heirs of veterans of King Philip's War in 1728. Used by Indians for
hunting and fishing, the town was founded in 1733 although the first
permanent settlement of the town didn't take place until 1737 and the
community wasn't accepted as a town until 1770. The community had been
garrisoned as an outpost in the French and Indian Wars of the 1740's. The
initial grants to settlers were of 60-acre parcels and in the Colonial
period the town fit the description of a poor agrarian community.
By 1820, Westminster's diversity of religious affiliation was great enough
to force the town to stop supporting a single minister with public taxes.
There were Armianists, Unitarians, Congregationalists, Baptists, Methodists
and Universalists in the town. The community took a moderate position
during Shays Rebellion, recommending release of the insurgents who had been
captured but registering its opposition to the court system.
The new road to Fitchburg was built in 1835 and the Vermont and
Massachusetts Railroad reached town in 1848. By 1900 there was East-West
electric streetcar service established from Fitchburg to Gardner through
Westminster center. In the early 20th century, townspeople made chairs and
manufactured paper while an unusually large influx of Finnish immigrants
took over the old farms in town and settled in to an agricultural life.
Suburban development of the town on attractive lakeside sites and in
sections of town with Wachusetts Mountain views has been part of its modern
day growth.
North central Massachusetts, bordered by Ashburnham on the north, Fitchburg and
Leominster on the east, Princeton and Hubbardston on the south, and Gardner on
the west. Westminster is 6 miles west of Fitchburg, 24 miles north of Worcester,
53 miles northwest of Boston, and 198 miles from New York City.
Narrative compiled by the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD).
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Today's newest MLS listings
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SingleFamily, Detached
$350,000
4
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3
baths
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$85,000
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SingleFamily, Detached
$329,900
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SingleFamily, Detached
$375,000
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bedrooms,
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baths
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$165,000
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