Wheelockville District

Wheelockville is a small mill village in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, laid out along Mendon and Henry Streets near the Waucantuck Mill. Its roughly 10 acres hold a well-preserved group of wood-frame cottages and houses, mostly late Federal and Greek Revival, built between about 1825 and 1885. Later Italianate and Victorian houses are scattered among them, though the village's architectural character was largely set before 1865. The area grew alongside the mill, first built by Luke Taft in 1825 and later run by the Wheelock family. The Wheelock brothers built their own houses on a ridge overlooking the mill and may have owned worker housing nearby. In the 1840s and 1850s the village also had two boot factories, one run by Joshua Garside and one by Joseph Keith, both closed by 1870. The district was recognized for keeping the scale and appearance of Uxbridge's early and mid-nineteenth-century mill villages, and for its link to the Waucantuck Mill.