Spencer, Massachusetts

Spencer, United States

Spencer, Massachusetts shares 27 connections with 4056 other places across 11 topics, with transportation and military history drawing the most connections. The town sits at the junction of Routes 9 and 31 in central Worcester County. In 1784 it was a staging stop on the Boston Post Road between Boston and Hartford. General Henry Knox passed through with cannons from Fort Ticonderoga on his way to Boston, and George Washington stopped here in 1789. Elias Howe, a 19th-century American inventor, was born in Spencer.