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Sutton, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Sutton is home to one of the oldest school houses in America.
The Town of Sutton is located in central Massachusetts (Worcester County) in an area known as the Blackstone Valley. The Town is located along Route 146 and is 8 miles south of Worcester, 30 miles north of Providence and 46 miles southwest of Boston. Sutton is bordered by the towns of Millbury, Grafton, Northbridge, Uxbridge, Douglas and Oxford. The town consists of five villages - - Sutton Center, Manchaug, Wilkinsonville, West Sutton, and South Sutton. www.suttonma.org
Sutton includes: Marble Village, Quabbin (South Sutton), and Wilkinsonville.
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Photograph- 1704 - Sutton is settled
Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates - 1714 - Sutton is incorporated
Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates 
First Congregational Church, Sutton, Mass.
This church is right on the main common of the town, across from the town hall.
The town was first settled in 1717, and right away, in 1719, this church was built. The first members were Timothy... Read MORE...
Postcard- 1839 - Sutton
Sutton, Massachusetts
Worcester county. This is a very pleasant and flourishing town, 44 miles W. by S. from Boston and 9 S. by E. from Worcester. In...Read MORE... - 1845 - SUTTON. [Pop. 2,370. Inc 1715.]
The settling of Sutton was retarded by the Indian wars.
It is a pleasant town, situated on the Blackstone and its branches.
Sutton o...Read MORE... - 1848 - Sutton
This town was originally purchased by a number of persons of John Wampus, a sachem, and his company of Indians, who claimed it, and was confirmed to t...Read MORE... 
1853 - Sad Occurrence
Mrs. Mary Whiting, an aged lady of nearly 90 years, was burned to death in Sutton, Massachusetts, on Sabbath evening. She was alone in the house, the ...Read MORE...- 1854 - Sutton
Sutton, a post- village in Worcester co., Massachusetts, near the Blackstone river and canal, and the Providence and Worcester railroad, 42 miles W. S...Read MORE... - 1865 - Thank You to Soldiers
A noble woman, by the name of Susan Williams, South Sutton, Massachusetts, gives to every soldier who enlisted from that town, on his return, the sum ...Read MORE... - 1879 - 100 Pet Cats
Miss Mary Jane Wadleigh, of Sutton, Massachusetts, has one hundred pet cats, and when one of them dies she has it buried in its grave marked by a neat...Read MORE... - 1885 - Men of Brains - Some of the Distinguished American Inventors
Thomas Blanchard, born in 1788, at Sutton, Massachusetts; died in 1864; invented a tack machine in 1806; builds a successful steam carriage in 1825; b...Read MORE... - Sutton Massachusetts, 1890
Sutton is an agricultural and manufacturing town of 3,101 inhabitants, situated in the southeastern section of Worcester County, about 40 miles southw...Read MORE... 
Cemetery and Town Hall, Sutton, Mass.
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School House, Sutton, Mass
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Residence Street, Looking East, Sutton, Mass.
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Road at West Sutton, Sutton, Mass.
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Sutton, a village in Sutton township (town), Worcester co., Mass., 8 miles S. by E. of Worcester. Pop. of the town in 1900, 3328 ; of the village, abo...Read MORE... 
Purgatory, Sutton, Mass., 1906
Legend says that the chasm was created by the devil in response to an Algonquin Indian woman killing a white colonial settler.
Historians say that the legend actually served a religious purpose in the colonists’... Read MORE...
Postcard- 1910 - Signed "Wife"
Up in Sutton, Massachusetts, a young woman organist wrote a preacher and signed herself "wife." And the organist's play-ful ways caused the deuce of a...Read MORE... 
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Singletary Lake, Sutton and Millbury, Mass.
Postcard- 1916 - Sutton
Sutton, a village in Sutton township (town), Worcester co., Mass., 8 miles S. by E. of Worcester. Pop. of the town in 1900, 3328; of the village, abou...Read MORE... 
High School, Sutton, Mass.
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First Congregational Church, Sutton, Mass.
This church is right on the main common of the town, across from the town hall.
The town was first settled in 1717, and right away, in 1719, this church was built. The first members were Timothy... Read MORE...
Sutton, Massachusetts, USA
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Residence Street, Looking East, Sutton, Mass.
Sutton, Massachusetts, USA
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Road at West Sutton, Sutton, Mass.
Sutton, Massachusetts, USA
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Cemetery and Town Hall, Sutton, Mass.
Sutton, Massachusetts, USA
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School House, Sutton, Mass
Sutton, Massachusetts, USA
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Purgatory, Sutton, Mass., 1906
Legend says that the chasm was created by the devil in response to an Algonquin Indian woman killing a white colonial settler.
Historians say that the legend actually served a religious purpose in the colonists’... Read MORE...
Sutton, Massachusetts, USA
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Town Hall
Sutton, Massachusetts, USA
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Singletary Lake, Sutton and Millbury, Mass.
Sutton, Massachusetts, USA
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High School, Sutton, Mass.
Sutton, Massachusetts, USA
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1704 - Sutton is settled
Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
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1714 - Sutton is incorporated
Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
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1839 - Sutton
Sutton, Massachusetts
Worcester county. This is a very pleasant and flourishing town, 44 miles W. by S. from Boston and 9 S. by E. from Worcester.... Read MORE...
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1845 - SUTTON. [Pop. 2,370. Inc 1715.]
The settling of Sutton was retarded by the Indian wars.
It is a pleasant town, situated on the Blackstone and its branches.
Sutton... Read MORE...
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1848 - Sutton
This town was originally purchased by a number of persons of John Wampus, a sachem, and his company of Indians, who claimed it, and was confirmed to... Read MORE...
1853 - Sad Occurrence
Mrs. Mary Whiting, an aged lady of nearly 90 years, was burned to death in Sutton, Massachusetts, on Sabbath evening. She was alone in the house, the ... Read MORE...
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1854 - Sutton
Sutton, a post- village in Worcester co., Massachusetts, near the Blackstone river and canal, and the Providence and Worcester railroad, 42 miles W.... Read MORE...
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1865 - Thank You to Soldiers
A noble woman, by the name of Susan Williams, South Sutton, Massachusetts, gives to every soldier who enlisted from that town, on his return, the sum ... Read MORE...
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1879 - 100 Pet Cats
Miss Mary Jane Wadleigh, of Sutton, Massachusetts, has one hundred pet cats, and when one of them dies she has it buried in its grave marked by a... Read MORE...
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1885 - Men of Brains - Some of the Distinguished American Inventors
Thomas Blanchard, born in 1788, at Sutton, Massachusetts; died in 1864; invented a tack machine in 1806; builds a successful steam carriage in 1825;... Read MORE...
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Sutton Massachusetts, 1890
Sutton is an agricultural and manufacturing town of 3,101 inhabitants, situated in the southeastern section of Worcester County, about 40 miles... Read MORE...
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1906
Sutton, a village in Sutton township (town), Worcester co., Mass., 8 miles S. by E. of Worcester. Pop. of the town in 1900, 3328 ; of the village,... Read MORE...
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1910 - Signed "Wife"
Up in Sutton, Massachusetts, a young woman organist wrote a preacher and signed herself "wife." And the organist's play-ful ways caused the deuce of... Read MORE...
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1916 - Sutton
Sutton, a village in Sutton township (town), Worcester co., Mass., 8 miles S. by E. of Worcester. Pop. of the town in 1900, 3328; of the village,... Read MORE...
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