Natick Massachusetts was settled in 1651 by John Eliot, a Puritan missionary born in Widford, England, who received a commission and funds from England's Long Parliament to settle the Massachusett Indians called Praying Indians on both sides of the Charles River, on land deeded from the settlement at Dedham.
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Natick Massachusetts was the first of Eliot's network of praying towns and served as their center for a long time.
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In 1775, both European and Indian citizens of Natick Massachusetts participated in the battles of Lexington, Concord and Bunker Hill, as well as serving in the Continental Army.
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The shoes made in Natick Massachusetts were primarily heavy work shoes with only one or two companies making lighter dress shoes.
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Natick Massachusetts was famous for its brogan, a heavy ankle-high boot worn by soldiers in the American Civil War.
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In 1874, a fire in downtown Natick Massachusetts demolished 18 business blocks, two shoe factories, the Town Hall, Natick Massachusetts's only fire engine house and the Congregational Church, as well as many private homes.
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Natick Massachusetts Center, known as Downtown Natick Massachusetts, is at the intersection of Central Street and Main Street and serves as the town's civic and cultural hub.
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South Natick Massachusetts, known for its scenic nature, is where the Native American settlers first arrived and began the town on the shores of the Charles River.
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West Natick Massachusetts is a large section of Natick Massachusetts that borders the town of Framingham.
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Natick Massachusetts is a small town, and thus, the various sections of tract development homes are considered neighborhoods.
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Wethersfield area of Natick Massachusetts is a residential neighborhood north of Route 9.
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Just before South Natick Massachusetts begins, there is a Virgin Mary statue on a large rock on the south side of the Charles River, enveloped by pine trees.
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Natick is surrounded, on three sides, by five of the eleven most affluent towns in Massachusetts with Wayland to the north, Weston to the northeast, Wellesley to the east, Dover to the southeast, and Sherborn to the southwest.
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Natick Massachusetts has representative town meeting form of government with a Board of Selectmen and a Town Administrator.
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Mismanagement of Middlesex County's public hospital in the mid-1990s left the county on the brink of insolvency, and in 1997 the Natick Massachusetts legislature stepped in by assuming all assets and obligations of the county.
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Natick Massachusetts was the setting for Harriet Beecher-Stowe's 1869 fictional novel Oldtown Folks.
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Natick Massachusetts appears on the Family Guy episode "Da Boom" when the family sets out to the town after Peter reveals that there is a Twinkie factory there .
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Natick Massachusetts eventually starts a town on the ruins of the community, naming it New Quahog.
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Part of South Natick Massachusetts made an appearance in the Oscar-nominated movie Knives Out.
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Many Natick Massachusetts residents crowded around in hopes of getting a glimpse of Evans.
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