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The area was first incorporated as part of Dorchester in 1630 and was briefly annexed by Boston in 1634. [12] The area became Braintree in 1640, [13] bordered along the coast of Massachusetts Bay by Dorchester [14] to the north and Weymouth [15] to the east. Beginning in 1708, the modern border of Quincy first took shape as the North Precinct ...
The Quincy Quarries is a 22-acre (8.9 ha) public recreation area in Quincy, Massachusetts, commemorating the site of the Granite Railway—often credited as being the first railroad in the United States. [1]
The parkway takes its name from the course of the stream it follows, [3] [4] Furnace Brook, which begins on the eastern slopes of the Blue Hills and meanders for about four miles from southwest to northeast through the middle of Quincy, ending where it meets the Atlantic estuary known as Blacks Creek near Quincy Bay.
North Quincy is a neighborhood of Quincy, Massachusetts. It is separated from the city of Boston by the Neponset River, and borders the Quincy neighborhoods of Squantum, Montclair and Wollaston. It contains the smaller neighborhoods of Atlantic (sometimes used as a metonym for North Quincy) and Norfolk Downs, as well as much of Wollaston Beach.
The Census Bureau classifies towns in Massachusetts as a type of "minor civil division" and cities as a type of "populated place". However, from the perspective of Massachusetts law, politics, and geography, cities and towns are the same type of municipal unit, differing primarily in their form of government and some state laws which set ...
The Dorothy Quincy Homestead / ˈ k w ɪ n z i / is a US National Historic Landmark at 34 Butler Road in Quincy, Massachusetts.The house was originally built by Edmund Quincy II in 1686 who had an extensive property upon which there were multiple buildings.
Numbering plan areas and area codes since May 2001 September 1997 [1] – May 2001 [2] July 1988 [3] – September 1997 [4] [5] October 1947 – July 1988 [6]. Massachusetts is divided into five distinct numbering plan areas (NPAs), which are served by nine area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP), [7] organized as four overlay complexes and a single-area code NPA.
Location mi km Destinations Notes; Plymouth: Kingston: 0.0: 0.0: Route 3A to Route 3 – South Duxbury, Kingston Ctr. Southern terminus: Pembroke: 4.6: 7.4: Route 14 east – Duxbury, Green Harbor, East Pembroke: Southern terminus of Route 14 concurrency: 6.3: 10.1: Route 14 west to Route 36 – Pembroke Center, Hanson, Hobomock Pond: Northern ...