Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Gardner, MA

Gardner is an incorporated city in Worcester County, Massachusetts.

It was first settled by Europeans in 1764, was incorporated as a town in 1785 from land granted by Ashburnham, Templeton, Westminster, and Winchendon, was named for Thomas Gardner, and was incorporated as a city in 1923.

The 2020 census counted 21,287 people in Gardner, in 8,720 households, with 9,411 housing units.

Gardner covers 23.02 square miles in total, with 22.07 square miles of land, at an elevation of 1,063 feet.

Gardner is known as "The Chair City" and "The Furniture Capital of New England," and by 1910 twenty chair factories in the city produced four million chairs a year.

The Heywood-Wakefield Company began in Gardner in 1826, when the five Heywood brothers began making wooden chairs, and the Conant Ball Company and Nichols and Stone also had Gardner roots.

The first practical time clock was invented in Gardner in 1894 by Edward G. Watkins at Heywood-Wakefield, leading to the Simplex Time Recorder Company.

The city is situated on Crystal Lake, and its highest point is Reservoir Hill, at over 1,280 feet.

Gardner's sites include Dunn State Park, Gardner Heritage State Park, the Blue Moon Diner, and Mount Wachusett Community College.

The Annual Chair Luge has run in downtown Gardner since 2009, and Gardner hosts the largest American Cancer Society Relay For Life event in New England.