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Town Brook Herring Run counts (2008-2016) Town Brook is a 1.5-mile (2.4 km) stream in Plymouth, Massachusetts that provided drinking water to the Pilgrims who made their homes adjacent to the brook on Leyden Street in Plymouth. Town Brook's headwaters are the Billington Sea, a 269-acre (109 ha) freshwater pond. The brook passes through numerous ...
Drake's Leat, also known as Plymouth Leat, was a watercourse constructed in the late 16th century to tap the River Meavy [1] on Dartmoor, England, from which it ran 17.5 miles (28.2 km) in order to supply Plymouth with water. [2]
The town is patrolled by the First (Norwell) Barracks of Troop D of the Massachusetts State Police. [27] Hanson is governed by the open town meeting form of government and is led by current Town Administrator Lisa Green [28] and a five-member Board of Selectmen. The town hall is located on the shore of Wampatuck Pond, at the town center.
Plymouth (/ ˈ p l ɪ m ə θ / ⓘ PLIM-əth; historically also spelled as Plimouth and Plimoth) is a town and county seat of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States.Located in Greater Boston, the town holds a place of great prominence in American history, folklore, and culture, and is known as "America's Hometown".
Little South Pond is a 62-acre (250,000 m 2) reservoir in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The pond is within the Eel River watershed, located west of South Pond village, northwest of Great South Pond, and south of Billington Sea. The pond serves as the primary municipal water supply for the Town of Plymouth.
The mills erected by the early settlers were used to saw wood and grind grain. As Plymouth prospered and grew, smaller industrial operations harnessed the brook's water power to perform other functions. During the 19th century, the nation's industrialization reached Town Brook, and mill complexes of larger size were also built.
Ship Pond is an 11-acre (45,000 m 2) reservoir in the Vallerville village of Plymouth, Massachusetts located in a narrow area between Route 3A and Cape Cod Bay, south of Surfside Beach, north of Bayside Beach, and east of Morey Hole. The pond is a secondary municipal water supply for the Town of Plymouth.
In addition, with a population of 51,701 at the 2000 census and an estimated population of 57,901 in 2007, [1] Plymouth is the second-largest town in the state by population (after Framingham. (Framingham is actually now a city making Plymouth the largest town.)