Historic Pepperell Landmarks

Arranged with notes by Franek Kiluk & Diane Cronin, Historical Commission


Ye Olde Pound located on Heald St. near Willow St. Built in 1756 to hold the occasional stray horse or cow until such time as the owner would claim them.


Blood Memorial, restored by the D.A.R. 1995. Located near 32 Blood St.


Minute Man Park located on Townsend St. where a historical boulder lies. Maintained by the D.A.R.


Old 1925 Horse Trough at intersection of Oak Hill St. and Boyton / Blood St. Designed by Ottis Merrill who also helped design Lowell's City Hall.


Grave of Keziah Jewett Blood and her son Nathan. Buried on Blood St. instead of the town cemetery due to contracting the much feared Small Pox disease.


The large historical boulder at Minute Man Park on Townsend St. This boulder is where Minuteman Edmund Parker stood and called his son to join Prescott and his men en route to the battle of Lexington & Concord on April 19, 1775.


Old street sign at Prescott St. and Park St.


Old street sign at Brookline St. and Park St.


The 1806 Wood Lawn Cemetery located on Heald Street.


Farrar flagpole located in Old North Village on Prescott St.


Soldiers Memorial Monument located at the intersection of Main St. and Park St. Dedicated on Aug. 23, 1930 honoring all the men from Pepperell who died during time of war.


Vietnam Memorial Located on Leighton St. adjacent to VFW Post 3291. Erected in 1983.


Bronze marker on boulder at Minute Man Park on Townsend St. honoring the Patriots in the Bancroft family.


Old Parish and Walton Cemetery on Park St. Here one will find the tomb of Rev. Joseph Emerson, Pepperell's first minister as well as the tomb of Colonel William Prescott, who was the hero of Bunker Hill. Also, you will find famed town patriots such as Daniel Hobart and Nathaniel Parker.


Little historical rock located on Elm St. with a bronze marker remembering the first white child born on the west side of the Lancaster (now Nashua) River: Samuel Shattuck Sept. 25, 1726.


Prudence Wright Memorial Stone: In November 1889 this marker of polished granite was first erected near the Pepperell Covered Bridge by a great-great-granddaughter of Prudence Wright, Mrs. H. A. Pevear of Lynn Mass, to commemorate the heroic act of her ancestress during the Revolutionary War.


Coon Tree Tablet located on Bancroft St. and Townsend St. This stone recognizes that British officers, who were prisoners of the Battle of Saratoga in 1777, were quartered in Pepperell and allowed to fraternized near this spot.


Jacob Ames Tablet located on Yale Rd. and River Rd. This marker claims the area of the last white man killed by Indians signifying that Pepperell was no longer a frontier town and was settled.


The "Lock-Up" at Railroad Square is the town jail constructed circa 1888 by vote at the Town Meeting on March 20, 1888. At that time the area was referred to as Depot Village and the parcel was described as being situated near Pat Flynn's Blacksmith Shop near the station of the Worcester and Nashua Division of the B & M Railroad.


St. Joseph's Cemetery located on Jersey St. 1880.


The imposing Memorial Gates located on Park St. This gate leads one into the cemeteries of the Walton and Corporation. These gates were a gift from the late Charles F. Lawrence and his sister, Mrs. Katherine Bass in 1891.


Memorial Bridge Marker located on Main St. Dedicated in 1937.


Pepperell hydro plant's wooden penstock. On of the world's largest at 13' x 600'. Built in 1918. Located under Memorial Bridge on Main St.


Penstock gates owned by Swift River Co. This enormous parallel slide disc gate valve is time worn but still functional to hydro plant's penstock. Circa 1918.


Sartelle's Saw Mill located on Sartelle St. Burned down in mid 1940's. Chimney and steam drums still present.


Remnants of the famed 1850's Burkinshaw knife factory located on Sheffield St.


Abandoned Gold and Silver mine at Gulf Brook near Heald's pond. Started in 1780 by Joseph Heald.