Original Grocery Tenant: Boylston Center Store
Address: 700 Main St, Boylston, MA
Opened: ca. early 1960s
Closed: ca. 1990s
Later Tenants: Boylston Deli
Photographed: May 11, 2023
Welcome to Boylston! There aren't a lot of businesses in Boylston nor is there exactly a downtown, but there is a town green. On the town green is this small store, a longtime grocer that dates back to at least the 1960s but around the 90s became the Boylston Deli, a small restaurant. Incidentally, why do so many of these small New England towns have town commons (or greens)? Well, originally they were intended as shared space to graze livestock for townspeople who didn't have their own pastures but kept an animal or two. Today, the spaces are mostly cosmetic and serve as gathering places (and Boylston's is beautiful). Boylston is on the eastern side of the Wachusett Reservoir, and on Monday we're headed up about five miles north to Clinton, the town at the northern point of the reservoir!
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