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Stoughton / ˈ s t oʊ t ən / (official name: Town of Stoughton) is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 29,281 at the 2020 census . The town is located approximately 17 miles (27 km) from Boston , 31 miles (50 km) from Providence, Rhode Island , and 35 miles (56 km) from Cape Cod .
The Lucius Clapp Memorial is a historic library building in Stoughton, Massachusetts.The single story masonry Renaissance Revival structure was built in 1903. It was Stoughton's first purpose-built library building, and was built on the site of its first schoolhouse.
The Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad reached town in 1853, making Stoughton a shipping center for wheat from the surrounding farms. T.G. Mandt started a wagon-making factory the 1860s which was so successful that the town was known as "the Hub City."
The Stoughton Public Library is part of the Old Colony Library Network (OCLN), a cooperative of libraries located on the South Shore of Massachusetts. In addition to books and print materials, the library offers patrons access to eBooks and databases through the OCLN, as well as lending museum passes to area museums and zoos, coordinating free tutoring for adults in Basic Literacy and English ...
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Wagon-building became an important industry in the 1860s. The village incorporated in 1868, with about 950 people. The early population of the town was largely Yankees, but Norwegian immigrants began to arrive in the 1870s. By 1900 about 75% of the population had Norwegian roots and the town was known as "Little Norway." [2]
Healing effects of hydrotherapy. I walked into town to experience Friedrichsbad, the famed 17-step Roman-Irish bath that opened in 1877.Entry is 35 euros ($38), which includes a sheet, slippers ...
F. William Kempf, b. 1901/ d. 1950 (Stoughton)– one of his instrumental works, Suite Classique (1940) was performed by the Boston Pops, conducted by Arthur Fiedler. Laura Shafer Gebhardt, b. 1885/ d. 1959 (Stoughton) – composed Flag of All Our Country for the bicentennial of the Town of Stoughton in 1926.