Acushnet was first settled in 1659 and was officially incorporated in 1860. In 1910, the Acushnet Process Company (now the Acushnet Company), was founded in the town, and continues to be one of Southeastern Massachusetts's most enduring industries. Acushnet Company owns Titleist,a corporation that makes professional golf balls ...

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Everett was first settled in 1630 and was officially incorporated in 1870. The city is named after the statesman Edward Everett, who unsuccessfully ran for vice president in 1860. Everett's largest claim to fame is having the nation's only local bicameral legislature, with both a city council and a board of aldermen. ...

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First settled in the early 1600s as a part of Boston, Massachusetts known as the hamlet of Muddy River, Brookline was incorporated as an independent town in 1705. President John F. Kennedy was born here, as was his brother Attorney General and Senator Bobby Kennedy. It was also the home of influential American landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, 60 Minutes icon Mike Wallace, former Governor of Massachusetts and 1988 Democratic Presidential candidate Michael Dukakis, television talk show host Conan O'Brien, television commentato ...

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Boston was founded on September 17, 1630, on a peninsula called Shawmut by its original Native American inhabitants. The peninsula was connected to the mainland by a narrow isthmus, and surrounded by the waters of Massachusetts Bay and the marshes at the mouth of the Charles River. Boston's early European settlers first called the area Trimountain. They later renamed the town for Boston, England, in Lincolnshire, from which several prominent colonists emigrated. A majority of Boston's early citizens were Puritans. Massachusetts ...

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Attleboro was incorporated from part of Rehoboth in 1694 as the Town of Attleborough. It was re-incorporated in 1914 as the City of Attleboro. Attleboro included the town of North Attleborough until 1887, and Cumberland, Rhode Island until 1747. When the city re-incorporated in 1914, the final "ugh" was removed from the name. During the colonial period, Nathaniel Woodcock lived in North Attleboro. During the Native American insurgency Woodcock's son was murdered and his head was placed on a pole in his front yard. The hous ...

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The earliest known document of the lands now comprising Amherst is the deed of purchase dated December 1658 between John Pynchon of Springfield and three native inhabitants, referred to as Umpanchla, Quonquont and Chickwolopp. According to the deed, "ye Indians of Nolwotogg (Norwottuck) upon ye River of Quinecticott (Connecticut)" sold the entire area in exchange for "two Hundred fatham of Wampam & Twenty fatham, and one large Coate at Eight fatham wch Chickwollop set of, of trusts, besides severall small giftes" (sic). When Amherst cele ...

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Auburn was first settled in 1714 and was officially incorporated in 1778. Robert H. Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket from his Aunt Eiffie's farm in Auburn on March 16, 1926. ...

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Williamsburg was first settled in 1735 and was officially incorporated in 1775. A flood on the Mill River on May 16, 1874, killed 88 people in the township of Williamsburg: 57 in the village of Williamsburg, 4 in the village of Skinnerville, and 27 in the village of Haydenville. ...

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Leverett was first settled in 1713 and was officially incorporated in 1774. In 1985, a Buddhist monastic order called Nipponzan Myohoji erected a large monument in Leverett. This structure, known as the New England Peace Pagoda, is considered the first of its kind to be built in North America. ...

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Marlborough was first settled in year 1657 and was officially incorporated in the year of 1660. In the 1650's, several families left the nearby town of Sudbury, just 18 miles west of Boston, to start a new town. The village was named Marlborough after the market town in Wiltshire, England and, in 1660, received permission from the Massachusetts General Court to incorporate their town. The early settlers survived the rigors of frontier life, including clashes with the local Nati ...

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Hadley Massachusetts - Early. Hadley was first settled in 1659 and was officially incorporated in 1661. Its settlers were primarily a discontented group of families from the puritan colonies of Hartford and Wethersfield, Connecticut, who petitioned to start a new colony up north after some controversy over doctrine in the local church. At the time, Hadley encompassed a wide radius of land on both sides of the Connecticut River, but mostly on the eastern shore. In the following century, these were broken off into ...

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Needham was first settled in 1680 and officially incorporated in 1711. Originally part of the Dedham Grant, Needham split from Dedham, Massachusetts and was named after the village of Needham Market in Suffolk, England, a neighbor of the English town of Dedham. By the 1770s settlers in the western part of the town who had to travel a long distance to the meeting house on what is now Central Avenue sought to form a second parish in the town. Opposition to this desire created conflict, and in 1774 a mysterious fire destroyed the extant meeting house. ...

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Springfield was founded in 1636 by William Pynchon, the then assistant treasurer of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The town was named after the city in England where he was born. The location on the floodplains of the Connecticut River included soil suitable for farming. Long, narrow plots of farmland were created, extending out from the river. Over time, parts of the settlement were sectioned off t ...

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First settled in the early 1600s as a part of Boston, Massachusetts known as the hamlet of Muddy River, Brookline was incorporated as an independent town in 1705. President John F. Kennedy was born here, as was his brother Attorney General and Senator Bobby Kennedy. It was also the home of influential American landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, 60 Minutes icon Mike Wallace, former Governor of Massachusetts and 1988 Democratic Presidential candidate Michael Dukakis, television talk show host Conan O'Brien, television commentato ...

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Gloucester was first settled (as the settlement on Cape Ann) in 1623 and was officially incorporated in 1642. This is also when the name "Gloucester" first appears (various spellings). Originally the boundaries included the current town of Rockport; until 1840 Rockport was Gloucester's Fifth Parish and was known as Sandy Bay. In 1873 Gloucester was reincorporated as a City. Its development as a fishing port is largely tied to its geographic proximity to Georges Bank and other fishing banks located ...

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The site of Weymouth first saw European inhabitants in 1622 as Wessagusset, an offshoot of the Plymouth settlement. In 1624, according to city lore, the settlement was bolstered by the arrival of the ship "Charity" from Weymouth, England, including one Richard Harding, the ancestor of President Warren Harding. It became part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 with 500 inhabitants and was officially incorporated in 1635, then assuming its present name. Myles Standish is credited with saving the settlement in its early years from Indian attack, hoping ...

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Pelham was first settled in 1738 and was officially incorporated in 1743. The name is properly pronounced "pel-am;" the "h" is silent. Emphasis is on the first syllable. Pelham was the homeplace of Daniel Shays, leader of Shays Rebellion, an uprising to stop declining economic conditions in Massachusetts from 1786 to 1787. Pelham holds the distinction of having the oldest Town Hall in continuous use in the United States. A Town Meeting i ...

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Groton began with the trading post of John Tinker, who conducted business here with the Nashaway Abenaki Indians at the confluence of Nod Brook and the Nashua River. Indians called the area "Petapawag," meaning "swampy land." Pioneers would follow Indian trails from Massachusetts Bay, as Tinker had, and found the region productive for fishing and farming. The town was officially settled and incorporated in 1655, named for Groton in Suffolk County, England, the hometown of an early selectman, Dean Winthrop. Called "The Plantation of Gr ...

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Ashburnham was first settled in 1736, and was officially incorporated in 1765. Ashburnam was originally made up of the lands granted to officers and soldiers of a 1690 expedition to Canada during the French and Indian War. It was called the Plantation of Dorchester-Canada until it was incorporated. ...

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