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Southborough MA is located in Worcester County, Massachusetts.

Southborough, Massachusetts Information and History

Southborough was first settled in 1660 and was officially incorporated in July 1727. Southborough was primarily a farming community until mills began to tap the small rivers that ran through the town. By the end of the 19th century, Southborough was home to the manufacture of plasters, straw bonnets, boots, and shoes, among other things.

In 1727, Southborough split off as the “south borough” of Marlborough, much as Westborough had split off from Marlborough in 1717, ten years before.

In 1898, the Fayville Dam was constructed to produce several reservoirs to supply a growing Boston with water. As a result, manufacturing vanished, and Southborough did not see substantial growth until the high-tech boom of the 1970s.

The Fay, Burnett, and Choate families along with hundreds of others had a major impact on the development of the town as it is known today. Buildings such as St. Mark’s Church, St. Mark’s School, the Library, and the Community House and the Fay School were all derived from or were direct products of these families.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 15.7 square miles (41 km2), of which 14.1 square miles (37 km2) is land and 1.5 square miles (3.9 km2), or 9.64%, is water.

Southborough is located in eastern Massachusetts, bordered by six towns: Ashland, Framingham, Westborough, Hopkinton, Marlborough, and Northborough.

The form of town government is open town meeting with a Town Manager and a Board of Selectmen, in which the voters of the town act as the legislature. Each Town Meeting is managed by the Moderator, who also appoints most of the membership of the unelected boards.

The five members of the Board of Selectmen, however, are elected to act as the executive body of the government. The Selectmen delegate day-to-day operations to the Town Administrator.

Southborough has three school committees:

  • Southborough K-8 School Committee
  • Northborough-Southborough Regional School Committee
  • Assabet Valley Regional Vocational-Technical School Committee

Southborough’s town elections are non-partisan.

Southborough has six public schools. The four elementary and middle schools are inside town limits; the two high schools are regional schools in adjoining towns.

Southborough is home to a private secondary school, St. Mark’s, which was founded in 1865 by Joseph Burnett. The oldest junior boarding schools in the nation, the Fay School, was founded a year later in 1866 by Joseph Burnett’s first cousin Harriet Burnett Fay.

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