Pan Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. 19 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1887.

From the record

One of 686 National Register listings published here for Worcester County · listed in 2018 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. Main St., Annie Moore, Burnham, Hudson & Long Hill Rds., Bolton
When was it listed? August 2018
Category. district
National Register reference number. 100002783 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1887 to 1997

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 110 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Pan Historic District, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet covering Pan Historic District, surveyed 1887

Fires near this property

102 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Pan Historic District between 2004 and 2020, burning about 112 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Recreation and ceremony	15
Arson/incendiarism	4
Smoking	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
5 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
28 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
23 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
20 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
20 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
14 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
12 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Every fire recorded in Worcester County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Pan Historic District: 15 past producers, 5 producers, 1 unknown. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Berlin Stone Co Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Producer
Gneiss Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Bates Sand and Gravel Co.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Berin Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Berlin Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Berlin Town Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Bolton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Boxborough Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Casaceli Trucking	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Casaceli Trucking Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Worcester County

Maps showing this location

19 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1887 USGS Marlboro quadrangle1:62500
1889 USGS Marlboro quadrangle1:62500
1896 USGS Marlboro quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Marlboro quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1908 USGS Quinsigamond quadrangle1:125000 - 3 printings
1943 USGS Hudson quadrangle1:31680 - 4 printings
1943 USGS Quinsigamond quadrangle1:125000
1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1950 USGS Hudson quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1966 USGS Hudson quadrangle1:25000
1966 USGS Hudson quadrangle1:24000
1977 USGS Hudson quadrangle1:25000
1985 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Hudson quadrangle1:25000 - 2 printings
1989 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1997 USGS Hudson quadrangle1:25000

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Pan Burying Ground	0.5 miles	2007
East End Historic District	0.9 miles	2025
Whitcomb Inn and Farm	1.1 miles	2002
Bolton Center Historic District	1.4 miles	1997
Felton Street School	2.6 miles	1986
Eastwood Cemetery (Additional Documentation)	3.9 miles	2024

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100002783 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Worcester County	All 686 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.