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During the Late Industrial Period , Merino Village especially continued to grow, with expansion of the Stevens mill, construction of a library and residential infill. There are approximately 40 individual historic resources in the acre village, of which Nichols College makes up over 50 acres. It is a classic side-gabled, Federal style commercial building two and one-half stories high. The church is the central architectural resource in the area. Industrial development in the mill villages of Merino, Chaseville and Perryville over the next decades attracted a large immigrant population to work in the textile mills, including Irish, French Canadians and Polish. The Quinebaug River runs through a steep, narrow valley in the southwest corner of Dudley. Home About History. Open Space Protection A number of open spaces and open space corridors were identified as important to protect. Dudley Hill Inn circa Dudley Hill Dudley Map Circa. The lake was an intertribal meeting place, and during the midth century, became the site of a Christian Indian village under the aegis of the Reverend John Eliot. Many are in excellent condition while others have been updated with synthetic siding and modern windows. The resources that constitute Dudley Center lie along Center Road from the historic William Carter House on the north, where the road splits into Ramshorn Road heading northwest and Dudley Oxford Road heading northeast, to the south end of the Nichols College campus , oldest building The Carter House is the oldest standing building in Dudley, and was the site of the first town meeting when the town was established. The town common fronts on the Conant Memorial Congregational Church A war memorial with stone base, bronze plaques and a bronze sculpture of an eagle sits in front of the church. Historic buildings serve residential, academic, religious and civic uses. They continued, in progressively smaller numbers, to provide milk and milk products for local and regional markets until recently. The textile industry, including a new Stevens mill built in Merino Village in , continued to provide most of the employment in town, suffering a decline during the Depression, but recovering by with a wartime demand for textiles. A new textile village, Quinebaug or Dundee was established near the Connecticut line The early and midth century saw improvement of local roads, including Routes 12, , and , for automobile traffic, where development continued at this time. In , the Nipmucs sold a large tract of land in south central Massachusetts to colonial investors, but reserved for themselves five square miles between Dudley Hill and Lake Chaubunagungamaug. The building appears to have been built in two sections judging from the different heights of the roof. Each landscape is also representative of other, similar properties in the town and each demonstrates the multiple layers of significance that are common to most heritage landscapes. A gneiss ridge running along the western shore of the French River is the site of several good quarries. Residential buildings are set back feet while college and civic buildings around Dudley Town Common have deeper setbacks. In Amasa Nichols established Nichols Academy in the town center. Forty years later this reservation was also sold, and in Dudley became the first town incorporated in the new Worcester County. Black Tavern and Methodist Church.{/INSERTKEYS}{/PARAGRAPH} {PARAGRAPH}{INSERTKEYS}To the east, on the other side of the French River, lies Webster, to the north, Charlton, and to the west, Southbridge. Natural and cultural features, individual and civic histories, combine to present property owners and concerned citizens with a complex combination of present-day issues and opportunities. Sutton, Charlton and Paxton loams found on the tops of drumlins provide the town with rich agricultural soil, while land bordering the French River is gravelly glacial till. It occupies a prominent site in Dudley Center, and is one of the best preserved Federal style buildings in the area. The Grange Hall is a rectangular, two and one-half story Greek Revival building ornamented with paneled corner pilasters, frieze, and a molded cornice. A network of native trails crossed through Dudley, including a north-south trail from Oxford to Woodstock, Connecticut, a northwest trail probably including Dresser Hill Road , and a trail between the two rivers. Its brick Victorian Eclectic style cross-gabled form is dominated by a five-story tower with carillon, clock, rounded corner turrets and Romanesque detail. The Grange Hall ca. Dudley Hill was the site of a precontact Native American village, but the focus of precontact settlement in the area was Lake Chaubunagungamaug now in Webster.