The Thomas Eames House

We are all familiar with the “Entering Ashland” signs as we cross over from Framingham, Holliston, Hopkinton, Southboro or Sherborn but the one thing that stands out is our incorporation date of 1846. As a community we are the youngest. Made up of equal parts of Hopkinton and Framingham to the east and west, and a smaller portion of Holliston […]

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Eliot, Gookin, and the Magunkaquog

A common name around Middlesex County is Eliot. You would be hard pressed not to see a signpost in Ashland, Natick, or any other of our neighboring communities that didn’t have “Eliot” in it somewhere. Most of us remember John Eliot as the Puritan that “converted the heathens and ministered the settlers” around the middle of the 17th century. A […]

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