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Location: 78 Hollis Street, Groton, MA Coordinates: 42°36′52″N 71°34′21″W / 42.6145°N 71.5725°W / 42.6145; -71 Principal: Russell Alfred Hoyt
Groton is a town in northwestern Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, within the Greater Boston metropolitan area. The population was 11,315 at the 2020 census.An affluent bedroom community roughly 45 miles from Boston, Groton has a large population of professional workers, many of whom work in Boston's tech industry.
Route 40 leads east 11 miles (18 km) to North Chelmsford, and Route 225 runs southeast out of Groton with Route 119 but leads 19 miles (31 km) to Bedford. According to the United States Census Bureau , the Groton CDP has a total area of 1.67 square miles (4.33 km 2 ), of which 0.001 square miles (0.003 km 2 ), or 0.06%, are water. [ 1 ]
Lawrence Academy at Groton is a private, nonsectarian, co-educational college-preparatory boarding school located in Groton, Massachusetts.Founded in 1792 as Groton Academy and chartered in 1793 by Governor John Hancock, Lawrence is the tenth-oldest boarding school in the United States and the third-oldest in Massachusetts, following The Governor's Academy (1763) and Phillips Academy at ...
In 1649 the first Middlesex County Registry of Deeds was created in Cambridge. On April 19, 1775, Middlesex was the site of the first armed conflict of the American Revolutionary War. In 1855, the Massachusetts State Legislature created a minor Registry of Deeds for the Northern District of Middlesex County in Lowell. [5]
The regional school district was established in 1967 [25] with the high school located on Main St. in Groton. In 1997, the school adopted 4x4 block scheduling. [26] In 1999, the "new gym" at the Main Street campus was renovated and renamed as the Peter Twomey Youth Center (PTYC) in order to honor a then recently deceased student.
In 1883, St. Paul's hosted the first organized ice hockey game in the United States. [23] The St. Grottlesex schools entrenched their social distinctiveness by charging much higher tuition than the academies. When Groton was founded in 1884, it charged $500 a year for tuition, room, and board. [24]
The old Groton High School is a historic school building at 145 Main Street in Groton, Massachusetts. It has also variously been known as the Prescott School, Groton Junior High School, and Butler School. The building is two stories, with a flat roof.