Photographs from the nomination case file, National Park Service records.
Hassanamisco Reservation
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
2011. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
From the record
“Hassanamisco Reservation Grafton (Worcester), MA The Hassanamisco Reservation is eligible for listing in the National Register as a Traditional Cultural Property under Criterion A for its association with the history of the Nipmuc Tribe, and Criteria Consideration A, ownership by a religious institution or use for religious purposes. The reservation is unique in Massachusetts for having never been owned or occupied by non-Native people.”
Narrative Statement of Significance, National Register nomination for Hassanamisco Reservation. Machine-read text.
one of 500 National Register listings in Worcester County · listed in 2011 · category: Site · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Worcester County.
National Register reference number.11000615- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
51 since 2002
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Hassanamisco Reservation between
2002 and 2020, burning about 33 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
14
Recreation and ceremony
8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
8
Smoking
8
Railroad operations and maintenance
4
Power generation/transmission/distribution
4
Arson/incendiarism
4
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 1,531 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Hassanamisco Reservation between 1839 and
1975: 905 Plantae, 377 Animalia, 226 Fungi, 14 Unrecorded, 5 Protozoa, 4 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A E WOODHEAD, A. A. Eaton, A. B. Seymour and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
11 workings within 5 miles of Hassanamisco Reservation: 5 producers, 4 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 plant.
6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Metal. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Grafton, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1995 and 2017: 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 flood.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
Two inch diameter hail fell in Grafton damaging screens and vinyl shutters on the west side of one house. On Route 122A, hail covered the ground, making the road slick, and broke car windows.
Lincoln and Cambridge Streets in Worcester were flooded with one to two feet of water. The intersection of Ward Street and Route 122 in Millbury was flooded with one and a half feet of water. In Grafton, Hayes Pond overflowed onto East Road spilling water onto the road up to four inches in depth.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
From the nomination file
16,012 words on record
When this property was proposed for the
National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is,
and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain.
It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the
occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s
typewriter's.
Statement of significance
Applicable National Register Criteria (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property for National Register listing.) A B Property is associated with events that have made a sianificant contribution to the broad patterns of our history Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. (Expires 5/31/2012) Worcester/MA County and State Areas of Significance (Enter categories from instructions.) ETHNIC HERITAGE/Native American (Nipmuc) Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack individual distinction.
Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history. Period of Significance 1728-1961 Significant Dates 1728 (Allotment to Moses Printer) 1920s (First documented Tribal Powwows) 1801 (Construction of Cisco Homestead) Significant Person (Complete only if Criterion B is marked above.) Criteria Considerations (Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply.) Property is: A Owned by a religious institution or used for religious purposes. B C D E F G removed from its original location. a birthplace or grave. a cemetery. a reconstructed building, object, or structure. a commemorative property. less than 50 years old or achieving significance within the past 50years.
Cultural Affiliation Architect/Builder Period of Significance (justification) See Continuation Sheets Criteria Considerations (explanation, if necessary) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 11000615, 71 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
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.
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.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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