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Discovery Museum is a hands-on museum for families that blends science, nature, and play, located in Acton, Massachusetts, United States.After an $8.8M expansion and renovation, the museum reopened in March 2018 as a 16,000 sq ft (1,500 m 2), accessible, single-building museum; a 550 sq ft (51 m 2) tree house and accessible nature playscape were added to the campus in July 2016. [1]
Acton Center is the civic center of the town and is the site of the town hall, the main public library (Acton Memorial Library), a children's playground, an obelisk monument commemorating Acton deaths in "the Concord Fight" of the Revolutionary War, a fire station, the Acton Congregational Church, a 64-acre (260,000 m 2) arboretum and ...
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South Acton is an area in Acton, West London, 6.4 miles (10.3 km) west of Charing Cross. At the 2001 census, Acton, comprising the wards of East Acton, Acton Central, South Acton and Southfield, had a population of 53,689 people. [1] The area is dominated by the South Acton housing estate, a large public housing estate owned by Ealing Council.
On Jolly's death, the Acton Gazette ran the headline "Tributes to the British 'Dr. Spock'", and called him "Britain's top child care doctor". [55] The People ran an article headlined "The children's friend", dealing with Jolly's reaction to legislation in the wake of the 1973 killing of Maria Colwell and attitude to fostering , by a foster ...
Acton (/ ˈ æ k t ə n /) is a town and area in west London, England, within the London Borough of Ealing. It is 6.1 miles (10 km) west of Charing Cross. At the 2011 census, its four wards, East Acton, Acton Central, South Acton and Southfield, had a population of 62,480, a ten-year increase of 8,791 people. [2]
In 1912, after prolonged debate, a Water District was established which provided water initially to the West Acton and South Acton villages. At this time, each of the five villages had its own fire department. On July 22, 1913, there was a very serious fire in West Acton. It destroyed houses, barns, businesses and factories.
South Acton railway station (England), in South Acton, London, England; See also. Acton (disambiguation) Acton station (disambiguation)