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FIPS code. 25-27795. GNIS feature ID. 0618340. Website. www.halifax-ma.org. Halifax is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 7,749 at the 2020 census. [1]
Jonathan Fairbanks. Fairbanks House, ca. 1641, is considered the oldest surviving timber-frame house in North America. Jonathan Fairbanks (1594 – December 5, 1668) was an English colonist born in Heptonstall, Halifax, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. [1] He immigrated to New England in 1633. Around 1641, Fairbanks built the Fairbanks ...
D+12 [2] Massachusetts's 4th congressional district is located mostly in southern Massachusetts. It is represented by Democrat Jake Auchincloss. Auchincloss was first elected in 2020. The district covers much of the area included in the 10th district before the 1992 redistricting. In prior years, the district stretched from Brookline to Fitchburg.
Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives 28 Julius Rockwell: Whig: 1835–1837 Pittsfield: Resigned when appointed commissioner of the Bank of Massachusetts 29 Robert Charles Winthrop: Whig: 1838–1840 Boston: Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives 30 George Ashmun: Whig: 1841 Blandford [data missing] 31 Thomas H. Kinnicutt: Whig ...
Massachusetts's 8th congressional district is located in eastern Massachusetts, including part of Boston. It is represented by Democrat Stephen Lynch. For one congressional term (1791–1793), it served as the home district of the District of Maine. The district boundaries were significantly changed, as of the elections of 2012, due to ...
October 9, 1960. The Fairbanks House in Dedham, Massachusetts is a historic house built around 1641, [ 1 ][ 2 ] making it the oldest surviving timber-frame house in North America that has been verified by dendrochronology testing. Puritan settler Jonathan Fairbanks constructed the farm house for his wife Grace (née Smith) and their family.
The Massachusetts House of Representatives is the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court, the state legislature of Massachusetts. It is composed of 160 members elected from 14 counties each divided into single-member electoral districts across the Commonwealth. The House of Representatives convenes at the Massachusetts State House in ...
Alexander Parris. Alexander Parris (November 24, 1780 – June 16, 1852) was a prominent American architect - engineer. Beginning as a housewright, he evolved into an architect whose work transitioned from Federal style architecture to the later Greek Revival. Parris taught Ammi B. Young, and was among the group of architects influential in ...