Place:Webster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

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NameWebster
Alt namesChabanakongkomumsource: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS25003119
TypeTown
Coordinates42.05°N 71.867°W
Located inWorcester, Massachusetts, United States
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Webster is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 17,776 at the 2020 census.

Named after statesman Daniel Webster, the town was founded by industrialist Samuel Slater, and was home to several early American textile mills. It is home to the Chaubunagungamaug Reservation of the Nipmuc, as well as Lake Chaubunagungamaug, the third largest body of freshwater, and largest natural lake, in Massachusetts.

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History

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The area that is now Webster was the ancestral home of the Nipmuc people for thousands of years. It was first settled by Europeans in 1713 and was officially incorporated on March 6, 1832. The area forming the town had previously been divided among the town of Dudley, the town of Oxford and an unincorporated gore. The primary founder was the manufacturer Samuel Slater, who came to the area after his celebrated activities in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and founded several textile mills, one of which was taken over by the Cranston Print Works in 1936. He named the town after his friend Daniel Webster. Slater spent his last years in Webster and died and is buried there in Mount Zion Cemetery.

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