Henry Gardner lived near here. From his graduation from Harvard until he died, he devoted his time and service to his county, province, and finally his new nation. On May 29, 1775 the town chose him to represent the town in the congress at Watertown. He was the first treasurer of the provisional government, and later state treasurer. The house has been down but a marker honors him. Tradition has it that military stores were hidden nearby in April of 1775 before the battle in Concord.

Members of the Hapgood family were in the area prior to King Philip's War. Later members of the family fought in the Revolution.            

Owned by Tenney family until 1930's.            

Dr. Charles Whitman was one of Stow's representatives on the Committee of Correspondence in 1773. He served as a member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, and was a signer of the Massachusetts Constitution in 1780.

Built by Stephan Randall. His grandson Abraham Randall, thought to have been born here, served in the Revolutionary army during the alarm of April 19, 1775.

The monument is a granite marker commemorating Matthew Boon, the first settler of the area. The lake that bears his name is approximately 290 acres, a Great Pond that straddles the Stow/Hudson line. Access is limited to town-owned recreational fields at Pine Bluffs off Sudbury Road.

Gleasondale is a good example of the multiple layers of heritage landscapes. The village evolved on the Assabet River and along Gleasondale Road (Rt. 62) with farms, mills, a dam, mill housing for workers and owners, a church, stores and the village post office. The village first was known as Randall’s Mills for Abraham Randall who bought the ca. 1735-50 saw and gristmills in 1776. Randall built his Georgian style house just outside the village and in 1813 he added a cotton mill on the northwest side of the river. During the construction of the cotton mill the laborers had to dig down to “rock bottom” after which the village was called Rock Bottom. By the mid 19th century the textile mills were owned by Samuel Dale and Benjamin Gleason. Samuel Dale died following a disastrous fire in the mills. Ebenezer Dale took over until his death in 1871 when Gleason bought out Dale’s heirs. However, the name Gleasondale did not become official until 1898.

The old blacksmith shop is located on the former Peter A. A. Larsen farm, which the town purchased in 1953. Following the purchase of that Great Road property, buildings were demolished or relocated except for Larsen’s blacksmith shop and a stone apple barn. Larsen’s house was sold at auction and moved to an adjacent lot. The Center School was constructed on the land east of the two remaining farm buildings.

Stow’s first village center was located at Lower Village where the first meetinghouse (1685, no longer extant), the Minister’s Manse (1686), the Common, and the Lower Village Cemetery (1683) were established at the intersection of Red Acre Road, White Pond Road, and Pompositticut Street with Great Road (Route 117). An 1820 painting of the Lower Common area depicts a bucolic scene with cows on the common, elegant houses and some minor commercial activity with a blacksmith shop and a lawyer’s office.

Lake Boon is a state-designated Great Pond that straddles the Hudson-Stow line. The irregular shape of the lake, the wooded shore line, the town beach, small cottage developments and the causeway at the narrows all contribute to Lake Boon’s scenic quality. The lake was named after Matthew Boon who explored the area in the 1660s, lived on Boon Hill off Barton Road, and was killed in King Philip’s War in 1676 when only a short distance from his home.