Flowers for Millbury, MA

Millbury was a mill town before it was anything else — the Blackstone River powered the looms that built it, and the old brick buildings still line the water below the common. What changed the town's rhythm was the highway: Route 146 stitched Millbury to Worcester and the Mass Pike, and the Shoppes at Blackstone Valley turned the northern edge into one of the region's busiest retail corners. So the orders here split two ways — the personal side runs to the downtown blocks and the West Millbury lanes, birthdays and sympathy and get-well work bound for UMass Memorial a few minutes north; the commercial side runs to the 146 plazas, where store openings, staff thank-yous, and congratulations bouquets keep a steady beat. It is a small town punching above its size on delivery volume because of what sits just off its exits.

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