"Fruitlands Museums" a Harvard Travel Page by grandmaR

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Alcott House and grape arbor

Harvard University is in the Boston area (actually Cambridge and Boston) and **NOT** in Harvard Massachusetts.

The town of Harvard was incorporated in 1732. For some unknown reason the town has attracted people carrying out a series of unusual sociological and religious experiments.

The most well known of these experiments in Harvard were the 1781 celebate Shaker village founded by Mother Ann Lee and Bronson Alcott's 1843 transcendental experiment. The farmhouse where the Alcotts lived (Fruitlands- pictured here) is part of the Fruitlands Museum on Prospect Hill.

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Wo-peen the Dreamer statue

Facts about Harvard, MA

Aliases: Shaboken, Shaker Village, Still River
Neighbors: Ayer, Bolton, Boxborough, Groton, Lancaster, Littleton, Lunenburg, Shirley, Stow
County: Worcester County
Congressman: Martin T. Meehan
Senators: Edward M. Kennedy, John F. Kerry
Land Size: 26.35 square miles
Population: 5,981 people. (228th in Massachusetts.)
Pop/Land: 226.98 people per square mile. (241st in Massachusetts.)
ZIP Codes: 01451, 01467