Place:Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

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Name
Grafton
Alternate names
Grafton Center     (USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS25003851)
Grafton Centre     (USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS25003851)
Type
Town
Coordinates
42.2°N 71.683°W
Located in
Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

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Grafton is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 14,894 at the 2000 census.

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History

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Bands of the Nipmuc tribe were the indigenous inhabitants, and maintain a state-recognized reservation known as Hassanamessit, or Hassanamisco, which was formerly a Praying Indian village. Grafton was first settled by Europeans in 1718 and was officially incorporated in 1735. It is named for the Duke of Grafton, a title created for the illegitimate son of King Charles II of England. In the 1930s, a movie, Ah, Wilderness!, was filmed in the town. The moviemakers built a gazebo for the screenshots and left it on the town's common. The gazebo still stands there today.

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