Neighborhood · Established 1722
South Billerica
South Billerica
| Location | Map |
| Established | 1722 |
| Area | About 633 acres |
| Roads |
Astrig Way Concord Road Dean Street Dudley Road Field Street Nashua Road Springs Road |
South Billerica is the old village of the southern part of the town, strung along Concord Road where Mill Brook crosses it at Hill's Millpond, from the Jonathan Hill House south past Dudley Road to Springs Road. Its center was Hill's Mills, the Hill family's grist mill beside the pond, where from soon after 1830 Jonathan Hill made leather-splitting machines and from 1853 Charles H. Hill carried on the business; a deed of 1853 calls the place "the Southerly part of said Billerica called Hills Mills." Across the road stood the Hill Blacksmith Shop, and at the corner of Dudley Road, the head of Job Hill's lane, the south district's Hill Schoolhouse, built in 1791 and standing until 2018.
The village had its own post office from March 4, 1878, with George W. Hill as the first postmaster, followed by Mary E. A. Libby that December. The railroad came through in 1877, first the narrow-gauge Billerica and Bedford Railroad and from 1885 the Boston and Lowell's Billerica and Bedford Branch, whose South Billerica Station stood on Spring Street, now Springs Road, beside the Rhoda Kemp House. Houses of the 1840s along the road include the Joseph Dane House and the Harvey Snow House. The farm land east of the mill pond became the Concord Road Corporate Center from 1961, and Astrig Way was built off Concord Road in the later twentieth century. At the south end the village takes in all of Springs Road and the east side of Concord Road at Field Street, which was laid out on the 1913 plan of Billerica Terrace. For the wider district, see the article on South Billerica.
As drawn here the neighborhood takes in the whole south end of the town east of the Concord River that is not in a later subdivision, from the Samuel Hill House at 187 Concord Road, north of the Route 3 interchange, south to the Bedford line. It includes the river meadows, the farms along Dudley Road out to Nashua Road, and the Hill Cemetery, the Job Hill family burying ground at the corner of Dudley and Nashua Roads, established in 1828.
Historic Buildings
| Name | Alternate | Address | Built | Moved | Demolished |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nathaniel Hill House | 312 Concord Rd | 1680 | 1780 | ||
| Captain John Stearns House (1689) | 96 Dudley Rd | 1689 | 1752 | ||
| Samuel Hill House | 187 Concord Rd | 1698 | |||
| Jonathan Hill Barn | 300 Concord Rd | 1700 | 1950 | ||
| Lt. John Stearns House | Maryknoll Fathers Novitiate - Retreat House | 77 Dudley Rd | 1715 | ||
| Hill's Mills | Hill Machine Shop | 316 Concord Rd | 1722 | 1940 | |
| Benjamin L. Judkins House (Concord Road) | 195 Concord Rd | 1734 | 2021 | ||
| Samuel Stearns House | 397 Concord Rd | 1749 | |||
| Captain John Stearns House | Moses P. Greenwood House | 96 Dudley Rd | 1752 | ||
| Jonathan Hill House | 312 Concord Rd | 1780 | |||
| Josiah Hill House | 363 Concord Rd | 1789 | |||
| Job Hill House | Perrin Place | 19 Dudley Rd | 1790 | 1925 | |
| Hill Schoolhouse | District Number 5 Schoolhouse | 329 Concord Rd | 1791 | 2018 | |
| Abner Stearns House | Pickman House | 141 Dudley Rd | 1798 | ||
| Job Hill Barn | 24 Dudley Rd | 1800 | 1970 | ||
| Jonathan & Laura Hill House | 340 Concord Rd | 1820 | |||
| Rhoda Kemp House | 1 Springs Rd | 1830 | |||
| Samuel Cole Blacksmith Shop | Concord Road | 1835 | 1899 | ||
| Samuel Cole House | Concord Rd | 1835 | 1951 | ||
| Hill Blacksmith Shop | 327 Concord Rd | 1840 | 1930 | ||
| Harvey Snow House | 356 Concord Rd | 1841 | |||
| Joseph Dane House | 354 Concord Rd | 1844 | |||
| Captain John J. Gorham House | 19 Dudley Rd | 1845 | 1998 | ||
| Colonel Charles A. Ranlett House | 305 Concord Rd | 1850 | 2019 | ||
| Martha A. Dodge House | Samuel Cole House #2 | Concord Road | 1850 | 1951 | |
| Adams, Susan Dodge - Stoker, Ralph House | 294 Concord Rd | 1851 | |||
| Captain Charles A. Ranlett House | 287 Concord Rd | 1851 | 1994 | ||
| W. Hildreth House | 8 Springs Rd | 1852 | 1977 | ||
| Charles E. Hosmer House | 388 Concord Rd | 1855 | |||
| Charles Henry Hill House | 332 Concord Rd | 1870 | 2005 | ||
| South Billerica Station | 3 Springs Rd | 1885 | 1960 | ||
| Riverhurst Trolley Station | Concord Road | 1901 | 1953 | ||
| Maryknoll Novitiate | 77 Dudley Rd | 1979 |
Points of Interest
- Hill's Corner (1750)
- Hill Cemetery (1828)
- Governor Thomas Dudley Park (1988)
- Ralph Hill Conservation Land (1990)
- Timber Creek Conservation Land (1992)
- Duserick Conservation Land (1999)
- Nashua Rd Conservation Land (2003)