July's HBA Summer Outing
The HBA will be having its annual summer outing (cookout and swimming) instead of a July business meeting.
The outing will be held at Ed Blanchard's house on Comet Pond, directions to his house, as well as the date & start time will be posted here this week.
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HBA Monthly Newsletter
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HBA Scholarship Info
The Hubbardston Business Association will be offering two $500 scholarships to Hubbardston Seniors graduating in the spring of 2009.
One $500 scholarship will be awarded to a Hubbardston Senior graduating from Quabbin, School Choice, Home School, etc. and going into a business program at a college or business school.
The second $500 scholarship will be awarded to a Hubbardston Senior graduating from Monte Tech., School Choice, Home School, etc. and going into a trade or to a technical school.
Applications are available from the Guidance Departments at Quabbin and Monte. Tech., at B’s Country Kitchen, Hubbardston Pizza Palace, and the Hubbardston Market.
Applications must be returned to the HBA Scholarship Committee; P.O. Box 585; Hubbardston, MA 01452-0585 by 4/18/09 to be considered for the scholarship.
Applications can be downloaded here.
Welcome to the Hubbardston Business Association
The Town of Hubbardston is in the hill country of central Worcester County.
The first European settlers were recorded in 1737, and the town's early economy was based on
agriculture and small scale chair, boot and shoe manufacturing. 
Hubbardston
was sympathetic to Shays' Rebellion and one of the leaders of
the rebellion, Captain Adam Wheeler, was from Hubbardston.
Eighty men from the town marched to Worcester under Wheeler's
command and took control of the courthouse to protest the
widespread foreclosures and seizures of property by creditors
that occurred during the cash poor 18th century. 
The community is described by historians as being a poor town,
sparsely settled and almost wholly agricultural, but having
sawmills, potash works and cottage industries such as the making
of horse blankets and palm leaf hats.
By the 19th century, dairy and berry farming and market gardening were major pursuits
in the town, and immigrants from Ireland, French Canada, England, Sweden and Russian
Finland had moved into town to work with earlier settlers. Even in 1940, Hubbardston
had a rural population of 55.9%, the second highest in the county.
Businesses in Hubbardston have much changed since 1737. The Hubbardston Business Association was started in the 1980's to give a voice to local business owners. We've come along way since we first began meeting then. We're dynamic, we're growing and
we're local. Check out the rest of this site to learn more about Hubbardston's local business
community.
(Narrative and photos based on information provided by the Massachusetts Historical Commission)
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