Origin of the Names of the Towns in Worcester County
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Lunenbui-g is a cit} T in the old Kingdom of Hanover. George 11. Was of the house of Hanover and derived this title from this Hanoverian place. The origin of the name is obscure, but the accepted theory is that on the site of this city there was once a temple dedicated to the worship of the moon. The temple and locality acquired the name of the moon, luua, and finally the town or burg was called Lunenburg. Mendon : — The Indian was QuansJiipauge. The town was incorporated in 1667, and there is ...no doubt that it was named from Mendham, located on the river ' Waging, Suffolk County, England, a place of great antiquity. There is no doubt that the General Court in its act of incorporation changed the or- thography of the word either accidentally, ignorantly or inten- tionally, for no such town or place as Mendon existed in Eng- land at that time. As I have before stated ham is the Saxon for "home" or "hamlet ;" what the prefix mend means is a mat- ter of speculation. Mii/lbdry : — Millbury was taken from Sutton and incorpora- ted in 1 S 1 3 .
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