Place:Sterling, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

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Name
Sterling
Alternate names
Sterling Centre     (USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS25003380)
Type
Town
Coordinates
42.433°N 71.75°W
Located in
Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

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Sterling is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA. The population was 7,257 at the 2000 census.

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Sterling was first settled in 1720 and was officially incorporated in 1781. Sterling is the setting of Sarah Hale's famous poem, Mary Had a Little Lamb. Mary Sawyer, the subject of the historically true poem, lived in Sterling. The Sawyer's house still stands to this day.

Sterling is the birthplace of Ebenezer Butterick (29 May, 1826 – 31 March, 1903), inventor of tissue paper dress patterns, which revolutionized home sewing. The town's municipal building is located in the old Butterick School, which was named after Ebenezer Butterick.

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