poll: #3 Shrewsbury: Central Massachusetts’ Best Communities 2013

Thursday, June 20, 2013

GoLocalWorcester Best Communities Team

What is the best thing about Shrewsbury?

Once home to Spag’s, a discount store owned by local businessman Anthony Borgatti, Shrewsbury is now a thriving community with a blend of residential and commercial development. The town, which boasts beautiful parks and lakes, is also home to three Nationally Registered Historic Places: The Gen. Artemas Ward Homestead, the Shrewsbury Historic District, and two 1767 Milestones, which marked the route of the old Boston Post Road.

Shrewsbury by the numbers

Established: 1727
Population: 35,608
Median household income: $88,985
Median housing price: $297,450

2013 Best Communities rankings

Overall ranking: 3
Affordability ranking: 53
Education ranking: 1
Economic condition ranking: 7
Safety ranking: 1
Arts & Culture ranking: 50 (T)

Famous residents

Lillian Asplund, Last American survivor of the SS Titanic
Gregory McDonald, Author
Craig C Mello, Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine
Francis Patrick O'Connor, Massachusetts Supreme Court Judge
Robert Allan Ridley Parker, Director of the NSA Management Office at the Jet Propulsion Lab
Charles P Pierce, Journalist, panelist on NPR.

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