Picnic at fort to mark anniversary; Town's first settlers in 1686 were fleeing religious persecution.
Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA) › Nbr. 2007, March 2007
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Picnic at fort to mark anniversary; Town's first settlers in 1686 were fleeing religious persecution.
Byline: Ellie Oleson
OXFORD - A small group of French families escaped religious persecution in 1686 and settled in Oxford for about a decade. Every year, the Huguenot Memorial Society of Oxford celebrates this modest beginning of the town with a picnic, to be held this year at noon ...See the full content of this document
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