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Lancaster

Sterling, Massachusetts
· 1630 - 1930
Industry
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The Plantation of Nasheway, embracing this and several adjoining towns, was granted in 1644 to a group of Undertakers in search of iron deposits. John Prescott, the first settler, made a success of frontier farming under great difficulties.
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