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From 1658 to 1820 Maine was an integral part of Massachusetts. In 1820, Maine was separated from Massachusetts (with its consent) and admitted into the Union as an independent state, as part of the Missouri Compromise. (See the History of Maine for information about its boundaries, including disputes with New Hampshire and Canadian provinces.)
The location of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States of America An enlargeable map of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts An enlargeable map of the 14 counties of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Prehistory of Massachusetts. History of Massachusetts § Before European settlement (Indigenous peoples)
The Massachusetts Archives building Documents in the Commonwealth Museum. The Massachusetts Archives is the state archive of Massachusetts.It "serves the Commonwealth and its citizens by preserving and making accessible the records documenting government action and by assisting government agencies in managing their permanent records."
Massachusetts population density map Most Bay Staters live within a 60-mile radius of the State House on Beacon Hill , often called Greater Boston : the City of Boston, neighboring cities and towns, the North Shore , South Shore , the northern, western, and southern suburbs, and most of southeastern and central Massachusetts.
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 .
The 1820 United States census was the fourth census conducted in the United States. It was conducted on August 7, 1820. The 1820 census included six new states: Louisiana, Indiana, Mississippi, Illinois, Alabama and Maine. There has been a district wide loss of 1820 census records for Arkansas Territory, Missouri Territory, [1] and New Jersey.
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 ...
After Massachusetts started offering a tax credit to those who film in the Commonwealth, a few movies have been made in Lowell. The Invention of Lying was released in September 2009, and shortly before, filming on The Fighter , about Lowell boxing legend Micky Ward and his older brother Dicky Eklund , was completed.