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Ultimately, it was given the name Brockton in 1874, and officially became a city on April 9, 1881. Brockton was a stop on the Underground Railroad , a network of secret routes and safe houses that helped enslaved people escape to freedom in the North and Canada. [ 6 ]
The Centre and Montello Streets Historic District encompasses an area of well-preserved commercial buildings in Brockton, Massachusetts.The district extends west along Centre Street from the junction of Centre and Montello Streets in downtown Brockton, and includes a few buildings on Montello south of that intersection.
The South Street Historic District is a historic district on South Street from Main Street to Warren Avenue in Brockton, Massachusetts.South Street was a fashionable residential address from about 1850 to 1915, and includes a cross-section of residential architectural styles, with the Colonial Revival predominating.
South Street Historic District (Brockton, Massachusetts) T. Thorny Lea Golf Club; W. Westgate Mall (Massachusetts)
Pages in category "Brockton, Massachusetts" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
This partial list of city nicknames in Massachusetts compiles the aliases, sobriquets, and slogans that cities and towns in Massachusetts are known by (or have been known by historically), officially and unofficially, to municipal governments, local people, outsiders or their tourism boards or chambers of commerce.
The Howard Block is a historic commercial building at 93–97 Main Street in Brockton, Massachusetts.Built in 1876, it forms (along with the adjacent Lyman Block), an important nexus of commercial development of the post-Civil War era in Brockton.
The Goldthwaite Block is a historic commercial building on 99-103 Main Street in Brockton, Massachusetts. Built in 1892, it forms part of one of the city's best-preserved assemblages of 19th-century commercial architecture, alongside the Lyman Block and Howard Block. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [1]