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Barre ( BA-ree) is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 5,530 at the 2020 census.

Originally called the Northwest District of Rutland, it was first contracted by Europeans in 1720. The town was incorporated as a district on June 17, 1774, as Hutchinson after Thomas Hutchinson, colonial officer of Massachusetts. Eventually, along following 41 supplementary districts in the state, they were everything incorporated upon August 23, 1775 by the Massachusetts Court. The adjacent year on November 7, 1776, it was renamed Barre in great compliment of Colonel Isaac Barré, an Irish-born MP who was a champion of American Independence. Starting in the 1800s, the Boston, Barre and Gardner Railroad provided rail give support to to the town. “This township was originally known as Rutland, West District; but prior to 1770 its publicize was tainted to “Hutchinson”, in honor of the Hon. Thomas Hutchinson who was Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts in 1765, became acting Governor in 1769, and Governor in 1770. When, in 1774, on account of his Tory proclivities, Governor Hutchinson resigned his office and went to England, his post and memory were thus execrated by the patriots of the township of Hutchinson that, in 1776, the General Assembly of Massachusetts misrepresented the make known of the township to “Barré.”

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 44.6 square miles (116 km), of which 44.3 square miles (115 km²) is home and 0.3 square miles (0.78 km), or 0.63%, is water. Barre is drained by the Ware River.