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Dorchester (/ ˈ d ɔːr tʃ ɛ s t ər /) is a neighborhood comprising more than 6 square miles (16 km 2) in the city of Boston, Massachusetts, United States.Originally, Dorchester was a separate town, founded by Puritans who emigrated in 1630 from Dorchester, Dorset, England, to the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Suffolk County (/ ˈ s ʌ f ə k / SUF-ək) is located in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in the United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 797,936, [1] making it the fourth-most populous county in Massachusetts. [2] The county comprises the cities of Boston, Chelsea, and Revere, and the town of Winthrop. [3]
The U.S. state of Massachusetts has 14 counties, though eight [1] of these fourteen county governments were abolished between 1997 and 2000. The counties in the southeastern portion of the state retain county-level local government (Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Norfolk, Plymouth) or, in one case, (Nantucket County) consolidated city-county government.
For example, Dorchester was incorporated in 1630 and originally included all of the current Dorchester, now the largest neighborhood of Boston, plus the Boston neighborhood of Mattapan, and all of present-day Quincy, Milton, Braintree, Randolph, Holbrook, Canton, Sharon, Stoughton, Avon and the northeast portion of Foxboro.
Mount Wachusett, the highest point in Worcester County. Worcester County (/ ˈ w ʊ s t ər / WUU-stər) is a county in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. At the 2020 census, the population was 862,111, making it the second-most populous county in Massachusetts. It is also the largest county in Massachusetts by geographic area.
Mattapan (/ ˈ m æ t ə p æ n /) is a neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Mattapan is the original Native American name for the Dorchester area, [1] possibly meaning "a place to sit." [2] At the 2010 census, it had a population of 36,480, with the majority of its population immigrants.
The county was named after the English county of the same name. [3] Two towns, Cohasset and Brookline, are exclaves. Norfolk County is included in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH Metropolitan Statistical Area. Norfolk County is the 24th highest-income county in the United States with a median household income of $107,361. It is the ...
It covers part of Milton in Norfolk County and part of Boston in Suffolk County. [1] [2] Democrat Brandy Fluker Oakley of Dorchester has represented the district since 2020. [3] The current district geographic boundary overlaps with those of the Massachusetts Senate's Norfolk, Bristol and Plymouth district, 1st Suffolk district, and 2nd Suffolk ...