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Paxton MA is located in Worcester County, Massachusetts.
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Paxton, Massachusetts Information and History
Paxton was first settled in 1749 and was officially incorporated in 1765.
The district of Paxton was originally taken from the towns of Leicester and Rutland, in nearly equal parts, and was incorporated February 12, 1765. Charles Paxton, marshal of the Admiralty Court, offered a church bell to the town if it was named after him; no such gift was ever made.] The inhabitants soon commenced their plan for building a meeting house, and on the first day of April 1765, the town voted to build it. It was raised on 18 June 1766, and this is the frame of the present meeting house.
In 1766, within two years of the incorporation of the town, the foundation of the present meeting house was laid, on what is now the common, near the flagstaff. The land was given by Seth Howe, from a piece of his pasture.
David Davis went to Boston with a pair of oxen and drew to Paxton the bell now in use, which was made by Paul Revere.
A small historic and now defunct amusement park called “Paxton Navy Yard” operated here in the mid 20th century.
Asnebumskit Hill was the site of the Yankee Network‘s early FM broadcasting antenna, beginning its commercial operations in Summer 1939.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 15.5 square miles (40 km2), of which 14.7 square miles (38 km2) is land and 0.7 square miles (1.8 km2), or 4.78%, is water.
- Anna Maria College‘s main campus is in Paxton, and the college recently opened a new campus in Worcester.
- Paxton is a member of the Wachusett Regional School District.
- Paxton Center School is the town’s kindergarten, elementary and middle school (K-8).
- The public high school is Wachusett Regional High School, in Holden, Massachusetts.
- As of 2005, high school students may choose to attend Bay Path Regional Vocational Technical High School.
- Paxton Center School offers band, chorus and track to students in grades 5-8. All students participate in physical education, art education and technology classes.
- Electric service is provided by the town’s own municipal light department.
- Water service is provided by the town’s own water department. Paxton’s principal source of drinking water is Asnebumskit Pond. Recently, Paxton sells the raw Asnebumskit Pond water to Worcester, and buys back water treated at Worcester’s filtration plant.
- Telephone service is provided by Verizon. All phones in Paxton are connected to Verizon’s main central office in Worcester.
- Cable television service is provided by Charter Communications.
- No natural gas or sewer service is available in Paxton. At least one house on the Paxton-Worcester city line is connected to the Worcester sewer system.
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