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Historic Districts Commission
The purpose of this commission is to preserve and protect buildings, places
and districts of historic or architectural significance. The precise boundaries
of each district are outlined below. While separated geographically,
the regulations which apply to each district are the same.
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King Philip Historic
District - This area was the site of the Indian Wars of 1676
where Captain Samuel Wadsworth and his troop were killed in an ambush
and later buried in the Wadsworth Cemetery. The Wadsworth Monument
was erected in 1852 in memory of the gallant men who fought the Battle
of Green Hill and appears on the Town Seal of Sudbury. Also in
the District is the Goodnow Library, included in the National Register
of Historic Places, as well as homes of 17th and 18th century construction,
including the Goulding House, Sudbury’s oldest existing home, 1720. In
the area of Mill Village is the site of the west-side Grist Mill, erected
in 1659. |
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Sudbury Centre Historic District - Of historical
significance in this District is the Loring Parsonage, c. 1700, the First
Parish Church, built in 1797, site of Sudbury’s
second Meeting House and first Town Meeting, the 19th century Presbyterian
Church, and the Grange Hall, erected in 1846. The Hosmer House,
standing at the corner of Concord and Old Sudbury Roads is a typical
residence of the early 19th century. Here, also, is the Common
where the Militia and Minutemen mustered on the morning of April 19,
1775, and just beyond the old Town Hall is the Revolutionary Cemetery
and Monument. To the east of the Centre is the Haynes Garrison
site where the people of Sudbury defended their lives and frontier settlements
against the allied Indian forces of Philip of Pokonoket. |
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Wayside
Inn Historic Districts - Of particular interest here is the Wayside
Inn, first known as the Red Horse Inn of 1686, visited by such distinguished
guests as Generals Washington and Lafayette, and made famous by Longfellow’s “Tales
of the Wayside Inn.” In the same area is the Redstone
Schoolhouse where Mary brought her little lamb, as well as a typical
New England Grist Mill and the Martha Mary Chapel, built by Henry Ford. |
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George Pitts Tavern Historic District - In 1721 at the George Pitts Tavern (located on Maple Avenue) a meeting was held to petition the Colonial Legislature for permission to erect a meeting house west of the Sudbury River, thereby separating the towns of Sudbury and Wayland. The outcome of this historic gathering effectively created the Town of Sudbury. According to maps of the 1800s, even the Old Boston Post Road passed along a portion of this street. Today, the architecture and structure of Maple Avenue showcases Sudbury's evolution throughout time. Many of the homes standing today were built between 1882 and 1920. |