Education

Lancaster is served by the Nashoba Regional School District. The town is also served by Minuteman Regional Technical High School It is also the site of the former Atlantic Union College and of South Lancaster Academy, incorporated in 1882–1883. The Dr. Franklin Perkins School is a private special education school located in the town. Trivium School, founded in 1979, is a private Catholic college preparatory school occupying the former estate of E. V. R. Thayer Jr.

Library

thumb|Lancaster public library, 1899

Lancaster's public Thayer Memorial Library first opened in 1868. In fiscal year 2008, the town of Lancaster spent 1.74% ($259,465) of its budget on its public library—approximately $36 per person, per year.

Notable people

  • Herman Vandenburg Ames, dean of the University of Pennsylvania graduate school
  • James Atherton, pioneer and the namesake of Atherton Bridge
  • Frank Bancroft, Baseball manager
  • Luther Burbank, botanist, horticulturist and a pioneer in agricultural science
  • Ezra Butler, United States Representative from Vermont
  • James C. Carter, New York City lawyer
  • Charles F. Chandler, chemist
  • Horace Cleveland, landscape architect
  • Francis B. Fay, merchant and politician
  • Hannah Flagg Gould, poet
  • Stephen N. Haskell, clergyman and pioneering leader of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination, founded South Lancaster Academy
  • Caroline Lee Hentz, novelist
  • Henrietta Swan Leavitt, astronomer who discovered the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variable stars
  • Charles W. Moors, Wisconsin politician
  • Herbert Parker (Massachusetts politician), Republican politician, Massachusetts Attorney General from 1902–1906
  • Mary Rowlandson, colonial Indian captive and author of one of America's first best selling books
  • Jared Sparks, historian, Harvard University president (taught at a private school in Lancaster 1815–1817)
  • John Thayer, ornithologist
  • Nathaniel Thayer, Unitarian congregational minister
  • Nathaniel Thayer (Jr.), financier and philanthropist
  • Dr. Samuel Willard, representative to the Massachusetts ratification of the United States Constitution

References

  • Town of Lancaster official website
  • Lancaster Online , community website
  • Annals of Lancaster: The Massacre of February 10, 1676
  • Information about early education in Lancaster
  • Lancaster 2007 Master Plan maps and tables