About Douglas, Massachusetts

Douglas is a town of 8,983 people in southern Worcester County, where the borders of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut come together. By 1715 English settlers had arrived. Since most came from Sherborn and some from Natick, the place was called New Sherborn for years. The settlement passed from Suffolk County into the new Worcester County when it was formed on April 2, 1731.

Fifteen years later, a physician from Boston named Dr. William Douglass asked for the right to name the township. In return he offered $500 to start free schools, plus 30 acres of land with a house and barn on it, and the town took the name Douglas in 1746. He later promised a bell for the school at the town center and 50 pounds sterling a year for seven years toward the ministry, but much of that never reached the town. The town was incorporated in 1775. During the Revolution, the Marquis de Lafayette swapped horses in Douglas while heading to Boston to meet General Washington.

  • A general store from the 1830sIn the 1830s, as East Douglas grew into the town's business center, Ebenezer Balkcom set up a small shop where Main Street crosses Pleasant Street, now Depot Street. Gardner Chase owned it next and sold it to Edward L. Jenckes. After Jenckes died in 1924, daughters E. Mialma and Helen R. ran it until it closed in 1964. In 1972 the Douglas Historical Society acquired it and made it the E. N. Jenckes Store Museum, a National Register site.
  • Red Sox and Yankees in 1946Winfield A. Schuster, whose family held the woolen mill on the Mumford River, wanted to honor the men coming home from World War II. On September 26, 1946, he brought the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox to Soldiers Field, the town ballpark, for an exhibition game. A crowd estimated at 12,000 came to watch, and New York beat Boston 8 to 7.
  • Axes, wool and graniteWoodcutters worked the town's forests, which also fed the Douglas axe company. Along the Mumford River in East Douglas, a woolen company grew into one of the town's leading businesses. At the town center, quarries in the granite ledges produced stone for building and ornament, sent to nearly every part of New England.
  • Douglas State Forest, 1934In 1934 the state purchased 1,245 acres to begin Douglas State Forest, and during the 1930s Civilian Conservation Corps crews added a picnic pavilion and other work. Today the forest spans 5,525 acres beside the state lines, with Wallum Lake and a rare swamp of Atlantic white cedar. From the Midstate Trail, a brief spur reaches the marker at the point where the three states touch.

Find your street

Names on the Douglas map

Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.

Places and landmarks14

  • Downtown
  • Bald Hill
  • Bare Hill
  • Emerson Hill
  • Mount Daniels
  • Badluck Lake
  • Bating Pond
  • Manchaug Pond
  • Whitin Reservoir
  • Douglas State Forest
  • Wallum Lake
  • East Douglas
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  • East Douglas Station
  • Tasseltop

Streets and roads91

  • Main Street
  • Davis Street
  • South Street
  • Webster Street
  • Douglas Road
  • Southwest Main Street
  • Southeast Main Street
  • High Street
  • Manchaug Street
  • North Street
  • West Street
  • Pine Street
  • Oak Street
  • Linden Street
  • Birch Street
  • Northwest Main Street
  • Yew Street
  • Perry Street
  • Wallum Lake Road
  • Maple Street
  • Wallis Street
  • Walnut Street
  • Martin Road
  • Monroe Street
  • Chestnut Street
  • Franklin Street
  • Vine Street
  • Gilboa Street
  • Orange Street
  • Wallum Lake Park Road
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  • Cedar Street
  • Mumford Street
  • Ridge Trail
  • Ledgestone Road
  • Hemlock Street
  • Locust Street
  • Old Farm Road
  • Riedell Street
  • Woodland Road
  • Grove Street
  • Shore Road
  • Pond Street
  • Island Road
  • Cross Street
  • Glen Street
  • Downs Road
  • Parker Road
  • Crescent Lane
  • Arch Street
  • Potter Road
  • Summer Court
  • Fairbanks Court
  • Hilltop Drive
  • Church Street
  • Caswell Court
  • Charles Street
  • Elm Street
  • Marilyn Drive
  • Brown Road
  • Northeast Main Street
  • Cliff Street
  • Eagle Drive
  • Depot Street
  • Lakeshore Drive
  • Olde Carraige Lane
  • Laurel Glades
  • Douglas Hill Way
  • Birch Hill Road
  • Royal Crest Drive
  • White Court
  • Gilboa Court
  • Bigelow Road
  • Cook Street
  • Wixtead Court
  • Smith Hill Way
  • Fairway View Drive
  • Forest Street
  • Bald Hill Road
  • Ledge Stone Road
  • Sunset Drive
  • Kerney Road
  • Johnson Court
  • Parker Court
  • Conservation Drive
  • Ledgewood Drive
  • Compass Point Drive
  • Old Douglas Road
  • Towle Court
  • Churchill Road
  • Robin Drive
  • Kelly Circle

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  1. Aerial imagery of Mendon, Massachusetts, from the USDA NAIP program

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