Paxton, MA Home for Rent

When beginning a new chapter in a bucolic New England town, locals will say that there’s no better place than Paxton. Kristin Steinmetz, youth services librarian at Richards Memorial Library, raised her children in Paxton and says the town is “surrounded by beauty.”

Along the wooded and rural Holbrook Lane are charming colonials, ranch-style houses and Garrison-style homes from the 1960s go for about $420,000. There are split-level homes and ranch-style houses from the 1950s priced just under $600,000 on Cutler Road. On Brooks Road, a windin ...