Sterling Center Town Common - Sterling, MA - Municipal Parks and Plazas on Waymarking.com

The Town Common, a focal point of community activity, was levelled and graded during the 1799 construction of the second Meeting House, and was the site of cattle shows for over one hundred years. Originally treeless, with present foliage planted in the 1880s, it once was surrounded by an iron fence and had an open bandstand at the south end, ca. 1899.

Sterling Common and First Church Grounds. For most of the 18th century, the only buildings in the Center were the meetinghouse , school, and pound, none of which survive today. The marshland comprising most of the center made it undesirable and thus undeveloped until after the Revolution. Contemporaries described the center as " a dark and almost impenetrable swamp, interspersed with grave knolls, crowned with rugged oaks"

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Name: Sterling Center Town Common Street Location: Park St, Meetinghouse Hill Rd, and Main St Local Municipality: Sterling State/Province, etc.: MA Country: USA Date Established: 1742 Monuments/Statues: Civil War, Mary Had a Little Lamb Monument Web Site: Not listed Memorial/Commemoration: Not listed Picnic Facilities: Not listed Recreational Facilities: Not listed Art (murals/sculpture, etc.): Not listed Fountains: Not listed Ponds/Lakes/Streams/Rivers/Beach: Not listed Special Events: Not listed Traditional Geocaches: Not listed

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