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The Fitchburg Public Library was established in 1859. [40] [41] In 1899, a child-specific library service began in one of the country's first children's rooms. [42] Fitchburg Public Library became the first regional library in the Massachusetts Regional Library System in 1962. [43] In 2008, the library had a budget of $1,111,412. [44]
The terms, which are used interchangeably, are usually understood to refer to the area economically tied with the cities of Gardner, Fitchburg and Leominster. The "North County" label—the county referred to is Worcester County—is often used to emphasize the area's distance and separate political identity from the county seat at Worcester.
On July 21, 2023, the OMB delineated two combined statistical area, seven metropolitan statistical areas, and three micropolitan statistical area in Massachusetts. [1] As of 2023, the largest of these is the Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH CSA , comprising the area around Massachusetts' capital and largest city of Boston .
For example, Dorchester was incorporated in 1630 and originally included all of the current Dorchester, now the largest neighborhood of Boston, plus the Boston neighborhood of Mattapan, and all of present-day Quincy, Milton, Braintree, Randolph, Holbrook, Canton, Sharon, Stoughton, Avon and the northeast portion of Foxboro.
This is a list of villages in Massachusetts, arranged alphabetically.. In Massachusetts, villages usually do not have any official legal status; all villages are part of an incorporated municipality (town or city - see List of municipalities in Massachusetts) which is the smallest official form of government.
The Moran Square Historic District is a historic district encompassing an area of late 19th and early 20th-century industrial, commercial, and residential development in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Centered on the triangular junction of East Main Street with Lunenburg and Summer Streets, this area developed as a secondary node apart from the city ...
District area (counties and municipalities) District created March 4, 1789 Elbridge Gerry : Anti-Administration: March 4, 1789 – March 3, 1793 1st 2nd: Elected in 1788. Re-elected in 1790. Retired. 1789–1793 Middlesex County: All Shearjashub Bourne : Pro-Administration General ticket: March 4, 1793 – March 3, 1795 3rd
The U.S. state of Massachusetts has 14 counties, though eight [1] of these fourteen county governments were abolished between 1997 and 2000. The counties in the southeastern portion of the state retain county-level local government (Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Norfolk, Plymouth) or, in one case, (Nantucket County) consolidated city-county government.