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Leominster (/ ˈ l ɛ m ə n s t ər / LEM-ən-stər) is a city in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. It is the second-largest city in Worcester County, with a population of 43,222 [3] at the 2023 census. [4] Leominster is located north of Worcester and northwest of Boston. Both Route 2 and Route 12 pass through Leominster.
The First Church congregation was funded with state tax revenue until 1835, when Massachusetts separated its churches from state funding. [ 2 ] The historic district also contains many 19th-century buildings, and the area was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
William S. Reed was a native of Sterling, Massachusetts who came to Leominster in 1872, and soon afterward introduced the manufacture of toys to the city, at first wooden blocks. Some of his early manufacturing may have taken place in the brick house at 41 Summer Street, built in 1840.
Francis A. Whitney, in addition to founding this company, opened a business manufacturing shirts, chairs, and thread in Leominster. [2] The historic district occupies 12 acres of land in a bend in Monoosnock Brook, about 0.25 miles (0.40 km) east of downtown Leominster, bounded on the south by Water Street and the east by Whitney Street.
Map of Massachusetts's 2nd Congressional District, 2003–2013, via Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth; Rose Institute of State and Local Government, "Massachusetts: 2010 Redistricting Changes: Second District", Redistricting by State, Claremont, CA: Claremont McKenna College, archived from the original on September 15, 2020
Rte. 13 northbound in Townsend. Route 13 begins at Route 12 north of downtown Leominster, where that route turns from Main Street to North Main Street. Route 13 continues along Main Street, crossing Route 2 near the Mall at Whitney Field, before crossing the north branch of the Nashua River and the Fitchburg Line of the MBTA Commuter Rail before turning northward towards the village of Whalom ...
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.
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.