Willard House and Clock Museum
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Willard House and Clock Museum is a museum in Massachusetts, at a recorded elevation of 130 m. Green Hill stands 231 m to the west-northwest, 6.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Axtell Forest, a nature reserve 0.2 miles away. Lost Villages Scenic Byway passes 11 miles off.
The story
The Willard House and Clock Museum is a museum located in North Grafton, Massachusetts, United States. Located at 11 Willard Street, it is located at the former farm homestead of the Willard brothers (Benjamin, Simon, Ephraim, and Aaron). The brothers made clocks there in the late 18th century, before they moved the business to Roxbury, where they became pillars of the emerging American clockmaking industry. The house was built about 1718 and is on the National Register of Historic Places. It stands in a rural setting, in the middle of a field that was part of the Willard farm back in the 18th century. Like other contemporaneous horologists, the Willard family originally divided its life seasonally, between farming and the clock workshop. Eventually the business became profitable, at which point the house was further enlarged. While in Grafton, Simon, the most innovative and most famous of the Willard brothers, developed his first so called banjo clock, more properly called the "Willard Patent Timepiece", which was patented in 1802.
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Wikidata Q8003427, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 130 m
What to expect
How to reach it
- 11.0 mi off the Lost Villages Scenic Byway
- 22.5 mi off the Battle Road Scenic Byway, National
- 22.6 mi off the Connecticut State Route 169, National
- 22.7 mi off the Revolutionary Heritage Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Sunset Ledge · 23 mi
- Lookout Point · 25 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Axtell Forest: 0.2 mi
- Hennessy Land: 1.1 mi
- Institute Road Forest: 1.2 mi
- Off Snow Road: 1.5 mi
- Suzanne Road Land: 1.5 mi
- Neighborhood Park: 1.3 mi
- Hyder Park: 1.4 mi
- Nelson Park: 1.6 mi
- Pratts Pond: 1.7 mi
- Secret Garden Entrance: 1.7 mi
- Green Hill: 1.4 mi
- Pigeon Hill: 2.1 mi
- Fay Mountain: 2.3 mi
- Boston Hill: 2.5 mi
- Tower Hill: 2.7 mi
- Old Black Oak: 2.4 mi
- The Explorer Express Train: 5.1 mi
- Mine Shaft: 5.8 mi
- Worcester Wall: 6.6 mi
- Boston Marathon Starting Line: 8.0 mi
- Shrewsbury World War I Memorial: 4.5 mi
- Shrewsbury War Veterans Memorial: 4.5 mi
- Spag's Memorial: 4.5 mi
- Shrewsbury Civil War Monument: 4.5 mi
- Fire and Police Memorial: 4.6 mi
- Uncle Beazley: 5.1 mi
- Siegfried: 5.1 mi
- Sundial: 5.1 mi
- Stone Griffins (Lion Gate): 6.0 mi
- Egg-Ice to Steel: 6.6 mi
- Shrewsbury Historical Society: 4.6 mi
- EcoTarium: 5.1 mi
- Blackstone River Valley Heritage Center: 6.3 mi
- Major Taylor Museum: 6.9 mi
- Worcester Historical Museum: 7.0 mi
- Jakubowitz-Chaifetz Garden: 7.6 mi
- Berlin Community Garden: 8.2 mi
- Hadwen Community Garden: 8.3 mi
- Southborough Town Pound: 8.6 mi
- Community Garden Southborough: 8.6 mi
- Point Rok Beach: 3.1 mi
- Lake Chauncy Public Beach: 4.8 mi
- Hopkinton Reservoir Beach: 8.2 mi
- Hopkinton Main Beach: 8.4 mi
- Memorial Beach: 8.8 mi
- Picnic Area: 19.1 mi
- Picnic Site 9: 23.5 mi
- Picnic Site 10: 23.5 mi
- Picnic Site 8: 23.5 mi
- Picnic Site 11: 23.6 mi
- Scar Hill Bluffs: 9.2 mi
- Rattlesnake Ledge: 9.7 mi
- Condo Rock: 9.9 mi
- Sawyer Bluff: 9.9 mi
- The Wall: 10.1 mi
- Johnny Appleseed Visitor Information Center: 19.6 mi
- Rest Area I-295 (North Bound): 23.7 mi
- Bike Trail Parking - Rest Area: 23.7 mi
- Cascades: 22.9 mi
- Emerson Falls: 23.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 7.3 miles of Willard House and Clock Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Green Hill | WNW 301° | 231 m | 6.5 mi |
| Millstone Hill | WNW 300° | 229 m | 6.0 mi |
| Crown Hill | WNW 296° | 229 m | 6.5 mi |
| Meeting House Hall | NNW 336° | 225 m | 5.1 mi |
| Rawson Hill | NNW 341° | 223 m | 5.9 mi |
| Mount Ararat | SW 235° | 223 m | 7.0 mi |
| Chandler Hill | WNW 291° | 222 m | 6.2 mi |
| Union Hill | W 271° | 217 m | 5.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:51 | 18:22 | 18:59 |
| June solstice | 05:11 | 19:45 | 20:27 |
| September equinox | 06:35 | 18:09 | 18:46 |
| December solstice | 07:13 | 15:33 | 16:18 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 25 | 27 | 35 | 46 | 57 | 65 | 71 | 69 | 62 | 51 | 40 | 31 |
| Precip in | 3.5 | 3.3 | 4.2 | 4.1 | 3.6 | 4.2 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 4.8 | 4.0 | 4.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Worcester, 11 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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Day trips start here
- Shrewsbury · 4 mi
- Blackstone Valley · 5 mi
- Millbury · 5 mi
- Upton · 6 mi
- Boroughs · 7 mi
- Worcester · 7 mi
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