W. S. Reed Toy Company-Wachusett Shirt Company Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021. 20 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 2021 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 41-45 Summer St., Leominster
When was it listed? November 2021
Category. district
National Register reference number. 100006863 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

180 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 180 fires within 5 miles of W. S. Reed Toy Company-Wachusett Shirt Company Historic District between 2015 and 2020, burning about 180 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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	76
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	65
Smoking	26
Recreation and ceremony	12
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
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
7 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
5 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
3 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
24 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.4 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	MONOOSNOC HILL
22 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
19 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
18 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Every fire recorded in Worcester County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of W. S. Reed Toy Company-Wachusett Shirt Company Historic District: 4 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Tungsten, Lithium, Tin. 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
Fitchburg Area	Tin, Lithium	Occurrence
Leominster	Lithium, Tin	Occurrence	1824
Leominster Pit	Geothermal	Past Producer
Luciani Prospect	Tungsten	Prospect
Keating Quarry & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
Keating Quarry and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Luenburg Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
P J Keating	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Szocik Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Tanzio Road Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Worcester County

Maps showing this location

20 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 Fitchburg quadrangle1:62500
1889 USGS Fitchburg quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Fitchburg quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1935 USGS Fitchburg quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1936 USGS Fitchburg quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1943 USGS Fitchburg quadrangle1:125000
1946 USGS Fitchburg quadrangle1:31680 - 4 printings
1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1953 USGS Fitchburg quadrangle1:50000
1954 USGS Fitchburg quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1954 USGS Fitchburg quadrangle1:31680
1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1969 USGS Fitchburg quadrangle1:24000
1969 USGS Fitchburg quadrangle1:25000
1975 USGS Fitchburg quadrangle1:25000
1984 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Fitchburg quadrangle1:25000
1988 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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
Wachusett Shirt Company	under 500 feet	1982
F. A. Whitney Carriage Company Complex Historic District	0.1 miles	1988
Whitney & Company	0.2 miles	1989
Pine Grove Cemetery	0.2 miles	2008
Monument Square Historic District	0.2 miles	1982
Cluett Peabody & Company	0.2 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100006863 in Record Group 79.
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.