Place:Whitinsville, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

NameWhitinsville
Alt namesWhitinvillesource: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS25003929
TypeVillage
Coordinates42.112°N 71.673°W
Located inWorcester, Massachusetts, United States
Also located inNorthbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States    
Contained Places
Cemetery
Pine Grove Cemetery
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Whitinsville is an unincorporated village within the town of Northbridge in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. Whitinsville is a census-designated place (CDP) and its population was 6,750 at the 2020 census. Whitinsville is pronounced as if it were spelled "White-ins-ville". It was founded by the Whitin family, after whom it is also named. It is a post office jurisdiction, with a ZIP Code of 01588. It is located on the Mumford River, a tributary of the Blackstone River.

Whitinsville has been designated as a mill village of national historic significance to America's earliest industrialization, and is one of only four villages selected by the John H. Chaffee Blackstone River Valley National Historic Corridor Commission to receive this designation. Hopedale is the only other Massachusetts mill village to achieve this designation by the corridor commission.

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