FITCHBURG – WWII Gen. George S. Patton had purchased a piece land for his family in 1928 in Hamilton, Mass., a farm that the famous general’s son turned into a produce farm, Green Meadows.

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Green Meadows, a Southbridge-based cannabis company founded by descendants of famous World War II General George Patton, has broken ground in Marlborough on its third retail location.