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Downtown Fitchburg seen from the south.
Location in Worcester County and the state of Massachusetts.
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Fitch­burg is a city in north­ern Worces­ter County, Mass­a­chu­setts, United States. The third-largest city in the county, its pop­u­la­tion was 40,318 at the 2010 cen­sus.[3] Fitch­burg is home to Fitch­burg State Uni­ver­sity as well as 17 pub­lic and pri­vate el­e­men­tary and high schools.
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Print of Fitchburg from 1882 by L.R. Burleigh with listing of landmarks
Fitch­burg was first set­tled in by Eu­ro­peans in 1730 as part of Lunen­burg, and was of­fi­cially set apart from that town and in­cor­po­rated in 1764. The area was pre­vi­ously oc­cu­pied by the Nim­puc tribe. It is named for John Fitch, one of the com­mit­tee that pro­cured the act of incorporation.[4] In July 1748 Fitch and his fam­ily, liv­ing in this iso­lated spot, were ab­ducted to Canada by Na­tive Amer­i­cans, but re­turned the next year.[5]
Fitch­burg is sit­u­ated on both the Nashua River and a rail­road line. The orig­i­nal Fitch­burg Rail­road ran through the Hoosac Tun­nel, link­ing Boston and Al­bany, New York. The tun­nel was built using the Burleigh Rock Drill, de­signed and built in Fitch­burg. Fitch­burg was a 19th-cen­tury in­dus­trial cen­ter. Orig­i­nally op­er­ated by water power, large mills pro­duced ma­chines, tools, cloth­ing, paper, and firearms. The city is noted for its ar­chi­tec­ture, par­tic­u­larly in the Vic­to­rian style, built at the height of its mill town pros­per­ity. A few ex­am­ples of these 19th cen­tury build­ings are the Fay Club, the old North Worces­ter County Courthouse[6] and the Bul­lock house.[7]
As the city is one of Worces­ter County's two shire towns, it has hosted the North­ern Worces­ter County Reg­istry of Deeds, es­tab­lished in 1903, and the county jail on Water Street.
The 1961 film Re­turn to Pey­ton Place was filmed in Fitchburg.[8]
Ac­cord­ing to the United States Cen­sus Bu­reau, the city has a total area of 28.1 square miles (73 km2), of which 27.8 square miles (72 km2) is land and 0.3 square miles (0.78 km2), or 1.07%, is water. The city is drained by the Nashua River. The high­est point in Fitch­burg is the sum­mit of Brown Hill near the north­west­ern cor­ner of the city, at 1,210 feet (370 m) above sea level.[10]
Fitch­burg is bor­dered by Ashby to the north, Lunen­burg to the east, Leomin­ster to the south, West­min­ster to the west, and a small por­tion of Ash­burn­ham to the north­west.
Fitch­burg is di­vided into mul­ti­ple dif­fer­ent neigh­bor­hoods/vil­lages, in­clud­ing:
Fitch­burg's cli­mate is humid con­ti­nen­tal, which is the pre­dom­i­nant cli­mate for Mass­a­chu­setts and New Eng­land.[15] Sum­mers are typ­i­cally warm, rainy, and humid, while win­ters are cold, windy, and snowy. Spring and fall are usu­ally mild, but con­di­tions are widely var­ied, de­pend­ing on wind di­rec­tion and jet stream po­si­tion­ing. The warmest month is July, with an av­er­age high tem­per­a­ture of 79 °F and an av­er­age low tem­per­a­ture of 56 °F. The cold­est month is Jan­u­ary, with an av­er­age high tem­per­a­ture of 31 °F and an av­er­age low tem­per­a­ture of 12 °F.
The mu­seum was founded in 1925 through the be­quest of artist, col­lec­tor and Fitch­burg na­tive Eleanor Nor­cross (1854–1923). The mu­seum's four build­ing com­plex fea­tures over 20,000 square feet of gallery and ed­u­ca­tional work­shop space and in­cludes the his­toric "Cross Barn" built in 1883, and the Si­mond's build­ing com­pleted in 1989. 12 gal­leries fea­ture Amer­i­can, Eu­ro­pean, African, Egypt­ian, Greek, Roman, Asian, and Pre-Columbian art.
The Rollstone Boulder, on the summit of Rollstone Hill in 1909.
Fitch­burg is noted for the "Roll­stone Boul­der", a 110-ton spec­i­men of por­phyritic gran­ite, which is in a small tri­an­gu­lar park ad­ja­cent to the city green. The boul­der was a fea­ture of the sum­mit of Roll­stone Hill; it was ex­ploded and re­assem­bled on the green in 1929 and 1930.
Listed on the Na­tional Reg­is­ter of His­toric Places, this ath­letic fa­cil­ity was a gift of Alva Crocker, in 1918, to the City Of Fitch­burg's school chil­dren. Alvah Crocker hired the fa­mous Olm­sted Broth­ers Land­scap­ing and De­sign Firm of Brook­line, MA to de­sign his "field of dreams." Babe Ruth once vis­ited Crocker field and asked Clarence Amiott, then the Fitch­burg High School Ath­letic Di­rec­tor, "What pro­fes­sional team plays here?" to which Mr. Amiott an­swered "The Fitch­burg High School teams."[17]
The So­ci­ety houses more than 200,000 items re­lated to the his­tory of Fitch­burg. In­cluded in the archives are orig­i­nal Sen­tinel news­pa­pers from 1838 to 1976, city di­rec­to­ries, pho­tographs, scrap­books, man­u­scripts, fam­ily ge­nealo­gies, post­cards, files on in­dus­tries in the City, and books and pam­phlets on Fitch­burg's his­tory from the 1700s to the pre­sent. In ad­di­tion there is an ex­ten­sive Civil War col­lec­tion and a col­lec­tion on the rail­road. The Re­search Li­brary is open to the pub­lic.
The So­ci­ety also has a re­mark­able col­lec­tion of ar­ti­facts which tell the story of Fitch­burg—early iron hearth cook­ing tools, the first print­ing press of the Fitch­burg Sen­tinel, ma­chines il­lus­trat­ing the strong in­dus­trial her­itage of the City, a stel­lar col­lec­tion of early paint­ings, and cloth­ing rep­re­sent­ing many decades in Fitch­burg. A com­pre­hen­sive strate­gic plan com­pleted in 2001 pointed out a need to find a build­ing bet­ter suited our needs in order to con­tinue col­lect­ing and pre­serv­ing the his­tory of Fitch­burg and con­duct­ing pro­grams for stu­dents and the gen­eral pub­lic. The His­tor­i­cal So­ci­ety is now in the final stages of ren­o­va­tion and up­grad­ing our build­ing lo­cated at 781 Main Street. As a re­sult of the ren­o­va­tions to the H. M. Fran­cis Phoenix Build­ing the So­ci­ety has moved to its new lo­ca­tion of 781 Main Street.
Cog­gshall Park is a Vic­to­rian park with miles of wooded trails branch­ing out from around Mir­ror Lake, which is en­cir­cled by a walk­ing path. Stone steps built into a hill­side face a gazebo on the water, mak­ing this a pop­u­lar spot for wed­dings and pho­tos. A clas­sic stone house on the prop­erty over­looks Mir­ror Lake. The ta­bles and benches scat­tered around the park draw pic­nick­ers as well as those sim­ply seek­ing a place to relax. A play­ground sits ad­ja­cent to the pond and a disc golf course.
Cog­gshall Park was a gift to the City from Mr. Henry Cog­gshall, an ex­ec­u­tive of The Fitch­burg Gas Com­pany, and his wife in 1894. The ini­tial do­na­tion in­cluded 86 acres (35 ha), but the cou­ple sub­se­quently pur­chased and do­nated ad­di­tional parcels to cre­ate the 212-acre park that ex­ists today. Cog­gshall Park also abuts a large par­cel of con­ser­va­tion land and a bird sanc­tu­ary, pro­vid­ing a total of ap­prox­i­mately 300 acres (120 ha) for vis­i­tors to enjoy.
The Friends of Cog­gshall Park was founded in 1992 when ap­prox­i­mately $1 mil­lion in state and fed­eral funds were used to ren­o­vate the park. Since the group's found­ing, the Friends have con­tributed sig­nif­i­cantly to the up­keep and beau­ti­fi­ca­tion of Cog­gshall Park. An­nual spring clean-up pro­jects, to which the Friends con­tribute both vol­un­teer labor and sup­plies (in­clud­ing more than 60 yards of mulch each year), en­sure the park's land­scap­ing re­mains well-kept. Other in­vest­ments made by the Friends have been even more sig­nif­i­cant, such as the pur­chase of a new foun­tain for Mir­ror Lake and a spe­cial­ized off-road fire­fight­ing ve­hi­cle for use in Cog­gshall or else­where around the city as needed.[18]
As of the cen­sus[31] of 2010, there were 40,318 peo­ple, 15,165 house­holds, and 9,362 fam­i­lies re­sid­ing in the city. The pop­u­la­tion den­sity was 1,450.3 peo­ple per square mile (560.8/km2). There were 17,117 hous­ing units at an av­er­age den­sity of 615.7 per square mile (239.3/km2). The racial makeup of the city was 78.2% White, 5.1% African Amer­i­can, 0.3% Na­tive Amer­i­can, 3.6% Asian, 0.0% Pa­cific Is­lander, 9.1% from other races, and 3.7% from two or more races. His­panic or Latino of any race were 21.6% of the pop­u­la­tion (14.6% Puerto Rican, 1.8% Do­mini­can, 1.6% Uruguayan, 1.4% Mex­i­can, 0.3% Ecuado­rian, 0.2% Colom­bian, 0.2% Hon­duran, 0.1% Guatemalan, 0.1% Sal­vado­ran, 0.1% Span­ish, 0.1% Pe­ru­vian).[32] 76.9% spoke Eng­lish, 15.1% Span­ish, 4.2% Other Indo-Eu­ro­pean Lan­guage and 2.6% Asian and Pa­cific Is­lander Lan­guages as their first lan­guage.
There were 15,165 house­holds, out of which 29.0% had chil­dren under the age of 18 liv­ing with them, 39.3% were mar­ried cou­ples liv­ing to­gether, 6.1% had a male house­holder with no wife pre­sent, 16.2% had a fe­male house­holder with no hus­band pre­sent, and 38.3% were non-fam­i­lies. 29.8% of all house­holds were made up of in­di­vid­u­als. The av­er­age house­hold size was 2.49 and the av­er­age fam­ily size was 3.10.
In the city, the pop­u­la­tion was spread out, with 22.9% under the age of 18, 14.1% from 18 to 24, 25.9% from 25 to 44, 24.7% from 45 to 64, and 12.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The me­dian age was 34.7 years. For every 100 fe­males, there were 94.5 males. For every 100 fe­males age 18 and over, there were 92.3 males.
The me­dian in­come for a house­hold in the city was $47,019, and the me­dian in­come for a fam­ily was $57,245. Males had a me­dian in­come of $47,350 ver­sus $37,921 for fe­males. The per capita in­come for the city was $22,972. About 14.6% of fam­i­lies and 19.4% of the pop­u­la­tion were below the poverty line, in­clud­ing 27.3% of those under age 18 and 12.7% of those age 65 or over.
Fitch­burg is pro­tected year-round by the 98 paid pro­fes­sional fire­fight­ers of the City of Fitch­burg Fire De­part­ment. The de­part­ment op­er­ates out of 3 fire sta­tions, lo­cated through­out the city, under the com­mand of one deputy chief/shift com­man­der per shift. The de­part­ment op­er­ates a fleet of 3 en­gines, 1 tower lad­der, 1 res­cue, 1 spe­cial op­er­a­tions unit (Haz-Mat), 2 am­bu­lances, 1 brush unit, 1 fire­boat, 1 main­te­nance unit, 1 trans­port bus, and sev­eral other spe­cial sup­port and re­serve units, in­clud­ing 2 re­serve en­gines, 1 re­serve en­gine/tanker, 1 re­serve tower lad­der, and 1 re­serve am­bu­lance. The de­part­ment is com­manded by a chief of de­part­ment, 4 deputy chiefs, 4 cap­tains, and 14 lieu­tenants. The Fitch­burg Fire De­part­ment re­sponds to ap­prox­i­mately 8,000 emer­gency calls an­nu­ally. The cur­rent chief of de­part­ment is Kevin D. Roy.[35][36]
Below is a com­plete list­ing of all fire sta­tion lo­ca­tions and ap­pa­ra­tus in Fitchburg.[37][38]
There are four law en­force­ment agen­cies that serve Fitch­burg, two at the city level, one at the county level, and one at the state level.
There is a med­ical fa­cil­ity in Fitch­burg, Hos­pi­tal (Bur­bank Campus).[42] Fitch­burg is also served by Hos­pi­tal HealthAl­liance (Leomin­ster Campus),[42] which is lo­cated in neigh­bor­ing Leomin­ster.
The Fitch­burg Pub­lic Library[43] was es­tab­lished in 1859 after cit­i­zens of Fitch­burg ap­proved an ar­ti­cle on the war­rant re­quest­ing $1851 and quar­ters in the Town Hall for the first Fitch­burg Pub­lic Library.[44][45]
In 1885, Rod­ney Wal­lace built and fur­nished the Wal­lace Li­brary and Art Gallery at the cor­ner of Main Street and New­ton Place as a gift to the peo­ple of Fitch­burg. In 1899, a child-spe­cific li­brary ser­vice began in one of the coun­try's first Chil­dren's rooms. It was not until 1950 that a new sep­a­rate Fitch­burg Youth Li­brary was opened. Ser­vice of the li­brary was in­creased with the pur­chase of a book­mo­bile which ex­tended ser­vice to out­ly­ing areas of the city.
Fitch­burg Pub­lic Li­brary be­comes the first re­gional li­brary in the Mass­a­chu­setts Re­gional Li­brary Sys­tem in 1962.
The ex­ist­ing Wal­lace Li­brary, named for George R. Wal­lace, Jr. and his wife Alice G. who pro­vided the li­brary build­ing, was ded­i­cated in 1967. The Fed­eral Li­brary Ser­vices and Con­struc­tion Act, money from the City of Fitch­burg also funded the pro­ject and the Helen E. Vick­ery Fund pro­vided a new book­mo­bile.
In fis­cal year 2008, the city of Fitch­burg spent 1.34% ($1,111,412) of its bud­get on its pub­lic li­brary—some $27 per person.[46] In fis­cal year 2009, the city of Fitch­burg spent .48% ($388,977) of its bud­get on its pub­lic li­brary -- $9.23 per person.[47] This rep­re­sented a year over year drop in mu­nic­i­pal fund­ing of 65% be­tween FY2008 and FY2009. As a re­sult, the Fitch­burg Pub­lic Li­brary did not meet Mass­a­chu­setts min­i­mum stan­dards of pub­lic li­brary ser­vices and was not cer­ti­fied by the Mass­a­chu­setts Board of Li­brary Com­mis­sion­ers for FY2009.[48][49] It re­turned to cer­ti­fi­ca­tion in FY2012.[49]
Fur­ther­more, on going sup­port comes from the Friends of the Fitch­burg Pub­lic Li­brary. The Friends of FPL[50] es­tab­lish closer re­la­tions be­tween the li­brary and the peo­ple it serves, pro­motes sup­port of ser­vices, and funds sev­eral im­por­tant ser­vices such pur­chas­ing books for the li­brary and the fees for the mu­seum passes. The Friends work with area mu­se­ums to bring li­brary pa­trons Mu­seum Passes that can be used to visit ex­hibits for re­duced fees.
In 2014 the Fitch­burg Law Library[51] opened at the Fitch­burg Pub­lic Li­brary in re­sponse to the clo­sure of the of­fice on Elm Street in Fitch­burg. The new li­brary lo­ca­tion is fully ac­ces­si­ble and open to the pub­lic.
State Normal School in c. 1920, now Fitchburg State University
St. An­thony of Padua School opened circa 1951 and closed in 2017. In its final year it had 144 stu­dents. Its clo­sure meant that Fitch­burg now has only one re­main­ing Roman Catholic grade school.[55]
Es­tab­lished in 1894 by an act of the Mass­a­chu­setts Leg­is­la­ture, the State Nor­mal School in Fitch­burg opened in tem­po­rary quar­ters in the old high school build­ing on Acad­emy Street.[56]
Trans­porta­tion for Fitch­burg is largely sup­plied by the Mon­tachusett Re­gional Tran­sit Au­thor­ity (MART). MART[57] op­er­ates fixed-route bus ser­vices, shut­tle ser­vices, as well as para­tran­sit ser­vices within the Mon­tachusett Re­gion. It also pro­vides two con­nec­tions to the MBTA Com­muter Rail line at Fitch­burg Sta­tion and Wachusett Sta­tion. The Fitch­burg Sta­tion is the sec­ond to last stop on the Fitch­burg Line from the North Sta­tion in Boston and the Wachusett Sta­tion is the last stop.
The Fitch­burg Mu­nic­i­pal Air­port oc­cu­pies 335 acres (136 ha) off Air­port Road in Fitch­burg near the Leomin­ster bor­der. In 1940, the air­port land was do­nated to the City of Fitch­burg and serves the greater Fitch­burg area.
Main Street, looking east, in c. 1912
Through­out the early twen­ti­eth cen­tury, Fitch­burg was known for its paper in­dus­try, which oc­cu­pied the banks of the Nashua River and em­ployed a large seg­ment of the Eu­ro­pean im­mi­grant pop­u­la­tion. It has been noted by many res­i­dents in Fitch­burg that the Nashua River would be dyed the color the paper mills had been col­or­ing the paper that day.[58]
The Fitch­burg Cen­tral Steam Plant (lo­cally known by its nick­name: the PLT) was built in 1928 to pro­vide steam and elec­tric­ity to the many local paper mills. As the paper mills were aban­doned or im­proved the Cen­tral Steam Plant fell into dis­use and was aban­doned. In 2008, the EPA des­ig­nated the Cen­tral Steam Plant a brown­field site due to con­t­a­m­i­na­tion of the site soil and ground­wa­ter with met­als and in­or­ganic con­t­a­m­i­nants. The EPA pro­vided the City of Fitch­burg $50,500 in grant money[61] to help clean up haz­ardous sub­stances on the site.
Cleanup[62] of the Cen­tral Steam Plant started in 2010 and is on­go­ing as of July 2011. Un­for­tu­nately as of De­cem­ber 2015 the Fitch­burg Cen­tral Steam Plant has been razed. The last struc­ture to fall being the mas­sive smoke­stack.
West Fitchburg Steamline Trail Park, a unique industrial heritage resource.
The Fitch­burg Parks and Recre­ation De­part­ment main­tains parks in Fitch­burg, which in­clude:
Flat Rock Wild Life Sanctuary,[63] a 326-acre wild life sanc­tu­ary that is part a net­work of Mass Aududon land, with 6 miles of trails. It is lo­cated within min­utes from down­town Fitch­burg, the hus­tling sounds of the city fade into a cho­rus of song­birds, rustling leaves, and zip­ping drag­on­flies. This wooded area pro­vides habi­tat for species need­ing rel­a­tively large ter­ri­to­ries such as fisher, coy­ote, and red fox. Bob­cat and black bear oc­ca­sion­ally travel through these woods over rocky ledges and through hem­lock groves.
The West Fitch­burg Steam Line Trail[64] is a bike and walk­ing path lo­cated in Fitch­burg on Route 2A. It is 0.6 miles long and runs along the Nashua River and Flag Brook in the Waites Cor­ner neigh­bor­hood. The path is gravel and is rel­a­tively easy ter­rain. The trail is the first con­tracted part of a planned pro­ject to build a mixed use bike and walk­ing trail through Fitch­burg. This trail will even­tu­ally con­nect with trails in the neigh­bor­ing towns of Leomin­ster and West­min­ster. Ad­di­tional parts of the pro­posed trail are in the River­front and Gate­way Parks.[65]
The Fitch­burg Steam Line Trail is lo­cated near the junc­tion of Route 31 (Prince­ton Rd) and Route 2A (West­min­ster St) at 465 West­min­ster Street. The trail park­ing lot is marked with signs, and is on the south side of 2A ap­prox­i­mately ¼ mile East of Route 31. The park­ing lot can ac­com­mo­date about 10-12 ve­hi­cles.
The trail starts to the left of the Fitch­burg Cen­tral Steam Plant.
Fitch­burg's cul­tural high­lights in­clude:
In the fic­tional Harry Pot­ter uni­verse, Fitch­burg is the home­town of the pro­fes­sional Quid­ditch team the Fitch­burg Finches.[70]
The Mc­Connell Story, star­ring Alan Ladd has its open­ing in Fitch­burg, and many scenes of June Allyson's char­ac­ter's fam­ily are in Fitch­burg, as the movie pro­gresses.
The open­ing scene in the pop­u­lar 1961 movie, By Love Possessed, star­ring Lana Turner, Ephram Zim­bal­ist Jr., Jason Ro­bards, and George Hamil­ton, fea­tures Fitch­burg's Court House and Mon­u­ment Park.
The band Nir­vana played a con­cert at the Wal­lace Civic Cen­ter in Fitch­burg on No­vem­ber 11, 1993. Ac­cord­ing to lore, front­man Kurt Cobain bought a Mar­tin D-18E Acoustic-Elec­tric gui­tar at Sal­va­tore Bros Great Music Box at 480 Main Street (now closed) which he fa­mously played on the band's record­ing of MTV Un­plugged In New York on No­vem­ber 18, 1993. This has s
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