The indigenous people of this region first named the Assabet River, though the original meaning of the word … See more

Indigenous people lived in what became central Massachusetts for thousands of years prior to European settlement. Indigenous oral histories, archaeological evidence, and European settler documents attest to his… See more

The Assabet River rises from a 310-acre (130 ha) swampy area in Westborough known as the Assabet Reservoir. Streams located in the towns of Shrewsbury and Grafton feed the reservoir. From Westborou… See more

Despite its small watershed area and habitat loss to suburbanization, the Assabet River and greater Concord River basin host many native and naturalized species of trees, wildflowers, aquatic plants, birds, fish, mamm… See more

The official designation of major flooding on the Assabet River is a water depth of more than 7 feet (2.1 m) and a flow rate of 2,300 cubic feet (65 m ) per second as measured at the gauge maintained by the U.S. Geological … See more

Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote in praise of the river in his collection of short stories Mosses from an Old Manse:
Rowing our boat against the current, between wide meadows, we turn aside into the Assabe… See more