The Commonwealth's nickname is the Bay State. Other nicknames are the Old Colony State, and less commonly the Puritan state and the Baked Bean state. On December 18, 1990, the Legislature decided that the people of the Commonwealth would be designated as Bay Staters. The United States Postal Service abbreviation for Massachusetts is MA and its traditional abbreviation is Mass. Seven ships of the United States Navy have been named USS M ...

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The Valley and the neighboring Hill Towns consist of three counties in the Connecticut River valley of Western Massachusetts: Pioneer Valley - Franklin County. The rural Franklin County, a land full of orchards, fields, barns, farmhouses, churches, and small shops in the once common, now vanishing stereotypical New England lifestyle. Pioneer Valley - Hampshire County. Hampshire County is a fairly affluent area with a large amo ...

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There are 50 cities and 301 towns in Massachusetts, grouped into 14 counties. Massachusetts shares with the five other New England states, plus New York and New Jersey, a governmental structure known as the New England town. ...

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The Pioneer Valley is sometimes known to its inhabitants as "the Happy Valley", but more often this is used as a gimmick for tourists, and the residents usually refer to it simply as "the Valley". It is the "valley full o' Pioneer" in "the sleepy west of the woody east" of which the Pixies sang in the song "UMass." Pioneer Valley - Bookstores. Valley residents love reading. Housing an independent bookstore in almost every town, several small publishers, and countless local authors, the Valley could well be ...

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Massachusetts - Population. As of 2005, Massachusetts has an estimated population of 6,398,743, which is a decrease of 8,639, or 0.1%, from the prior year and an increase of 49,638, or 0.8%, since the year 2000. This includes a natural increase since the last census of 131,329 people (that is 426,232 births minus 294,903 deaths) and a decrease due to net migration of 73,741 people out of the state. Immigration from outside the United States resulted in a net increase of 162,674 people, and migration within the country produced a net loss of 236,415 people. The population of Massachusetts in ...

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The capital of Massachusetts is Boston and the current governor is Mitt Romney (Republican). All governors of Massachusetts are given the title His Excellency, a carry-over from the Commonwealth's British past, despite titles being uncommon in American political traditions. The state does not maintain an official governor's residence. Massachusetts's two U.S. senators (Since 1985) are Edward Kennedy (Democrat) and John Kerry (Democrat); as of the 2001 redistricting, Massachusetts has ten seats in the United States House of Representat ...

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The Pioneer Valley covers approximately the second lowest quarter of the Connecticut River Valley, a river valley formed by tectonic plate subduction millions of years ago and filled in by Lake Hitchcock and the Connecticut River over thousands of years ago. Today the most geographically interesting parts of the valley are the basalt flows, South Hadley dinosaur tracks, the layers of rock deposit laid down by the rive ...

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The Northeast has a landscape varying from the rocky coast of New England to the fertile farmland of the Ohio River Valley behind the Allegheny Front in Pennsylvania. The Isles of Shoals near the Maine/New Hampshire border begins the rocky Atlantic coastline of the Northeast. Jagged cliffs rise up to a hundred feet above the ocean on Maine's northern coast; south of West Quoddy Head Peninsula in Maine, the eastern most point in the United States, the coastline subsides to sandy beaches which extend through the rest of the Northeast's Atlanti ...

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Massachusetts - The central role of education. Massachusetts contains only 2.5% of the U.S. population, but is home to many of its most renowned preparatory schools, colleges, and universities[2] (see full list of colleges and universities in Massachusetts). The population of metropolitan Boston, in particular, surges during the school year (see list of colleges and universities in metropolitan Boston). ...

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The Commonwealth's nickname is the Bay State. Other nicknames are the Old Colony State, and less commonly the Puritan state and the Baked Bean state. On December 18, 1990, the Legislature decided that the people of the Commonwealth would be designated as Bay Staters. The United States Postal Service abbreviation for Massachusetts is MA and its traditional abbreviation is Mass. Seven ships of the United States Navy have been named USS M ...

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There are 50 cities and 301 towns in Massachusetts, grouped into 14 counties. Massachusetts shares with the five other New England states, plus New York and New Jersey, a governmental structure known as the New England town. ...

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Massachusetts - Banned in Boston. During the first half of the 1900s Boston was socially conservative, and strongly under the influence of Methodist minister J. Frank Chase and his New England Watch and Ward Society, founded in 1878. In 1903, the Old Corner Bookstore was raided and fined for selling Boccaccio's Decameron. Howard Johnson's got its start when Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude was banned in Boston, and the production had to be moved to Quincy. In 1927, works by Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, Joh ...

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The Bureau of Economic Analysis estimates that Massachusetts's total state product in 2003 was $297 billion. Per capita personal income in 2003 was $39,504, making the state the 4th wealthiest in the nation. Its agricultural outputs are seafood, nursery stock, dairy products, cranberries, and vegetables. Its industrial outputs are machinery, electric equipment, scientific instruments, printing, and publishing. Thanks largely to the Ocean Spray cooperative, Massachusetts is the second largest cranberry producing state in the ...

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Massachusetts - Population. The population of Massachusetts in 2004 was 6,416,505 according to the US Census Bureau. There were 881,400 foreign-born residents living in the state in 2004. Since 1990 the population has increased 400,000, a growth of 6.7% The bulk of the state's population surrounds Greater Boston, with approximately 5,800,000 people, and the North and South Shores. Historically, the coast has been much more urban than Western Massachusetts, which is very rural, save for the cities of Springfield and Worcester. See also:

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The capital of Massachusetts is Boston and the current governor is His Excellency Mitt Romney (Republican). All governors of Massachusetts are given the title His Excellency, a carry-over from the Commonwealth's British past, despite titles being uncommon in American political traditions. The state does not maintain an official governor's residence. Massachusetts's two U.S. senators are Edward Kennedy (Democrat) and John Kerry (Democrat); as of the 2001 redistricting, Massachusetts has ten seats in the United States House of Represent ...

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The Society of Alumni of Williams College is the oldest existing alumni society of any academic institution in the United States, and may be the oldest alumni organization in the world. The Society of Alumni was founded during the "Amherst crisis" in 1821, when Williams College President Zephaniah Swift Moore left Williams. Graduates of Williams formed the Society to ensure that Williams would not have to close, and raised enough money to ensure the future survival of the school. In the years since the Amherst Crisis the generosity of alumni has made Williams one of the wealthiest educational institutions in the Uni ...

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See List of Williams College people. In the syndicated cartoon strip Foxtrot, the father Roger Fox, is an alumnus of Willot College, a parody of Williams College. The creator, Bill Amend is an Amherst grad. ...

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The school's sports teams are called the Ephmen, or the Ephs (pronounced "Eef", or [if] in IPA) - a shortening of the first name of founder Ephraim Williams. They participate in the NCAA's Division III and the New England Small College Athletic Conference. Williams has had tremendous success winning the NACDA Director's Cup, an annual award formerly known as the Sears Cup which is presented to the institution within each NCAA division that has the greatest overall success in NCAA sanctioned championships. Williams has won the D ...

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Colonel Ephraim Williams was an officer in the Massachusetts militia and a member of a prominent landowning family. His will included a bequest to support and maintain a free school to be established in the town of West Hoosac, Massachusetts, provided that the town change its name to Williamstown. The will was unsigned and undated, and provided additional stipulations, such as the town remaining in Massachusetts rather than becoming part of New York, as some residents wanted. Williams was killed at the Battle of Lake George on September 8, 1 ...

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Massachusetts is bordered on the north by New Hampshire and Vermont, on the west by New York, on the south by Connecticut and Rhode Island, and on the east by the Atlantic Ocean. At the southeastern corner of the state is a large, sandy, arm-shaped peninsula called Cape Cod. The islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket lie to the south of Cape Cod. Massachusetts is known as the Bay State because of the several large bays that give its coastline its distinctive shape: Massachusetts Bay and Cape Cod Bay on the state's east coast, and Buzzards Bay to the ...

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Massachusetts - Mass-adchu-et. The Massachusetts Bay Colony was named after the indigenous population, the Massachusett, whose name can be segmented as mass-adchu-et, where mass is "great", adchu is "hill" and et is a locative suffix. It has been translated as "at the great hill," "at the place of large hills," or "at the range of hills," with reference to the Blue Hills, or in particular, Great Blue Hill, located on the boundary of Milton and Canton, to the southwest of Boston. Massachusetts - Commonwealth. Main article: Commonwea ...

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