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Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Middlesex County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Cambridge
Year Organized: 1643
Square Miles: 824 |
Court House: 40 Thorndike Street
Cambridge, MA 02141-1715
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
For the former English county of Middlesex
Demographics:
County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick
Facts
History
The county was created by the Massachusetts General Court on May 10, 1643, when it was ordered "that the whole
plantation within this jurisdiction be divided into four sheires". Middlesex initially contained Charlestown,
Cambridge, Watertown, Sudbury, Concord, Woburn, Medford, and Reading
Like an increasing number of Massachusetts counties, Middlesex County exists today only as a historical geographic
region, and has no county government. All former county functions were assumed by state agencies in 1997
Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 848 sq mi (2,195 kmē). 823 sq mi (2,133 kmē)
of it is land and 24 sq mi (62 kmē ) of it (2.84%) is water.
Neighboring Counties:
- Northeast: Essex County
- Southeast: Suffolk County; Norfolk County
- Southwest: Worcester County
- Northwest: Hillsborough County, N.H.
Cities and Towns:
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- Acton |
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- Arlington |
town |
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- Ashby |
town |
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- Ashland |
town |
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- Ayer |
town |
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- Bedford |
town |
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- Belmont |
town |
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- Billerica |
town |
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- Boston |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Boxborough |
town |
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- Burlington |
town |
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- Cambridge
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city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Carlisle |
town |
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- Chelmsford |
town |
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- Concord |
town |
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- Dracut |
town |
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- Dunstable |
town |
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- Everett |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Framingham |
town |
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- Groton |
town |
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- Holliston |
town |
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- Hopkinton |
town |
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- Hudson |
town |
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- Lexington |
town |
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- Lincoln |
town |
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- Littleton |
town |
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- Lowell |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Malden |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Marlborough |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Maynard |
town |
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- Medford |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Melrose |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Natick |
town |
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- Newton |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- North Reading |
town |
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- Pepperell |
town |
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- Reading |
town |
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- Sherborn |
town |
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- Shirley |
town |
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- Somerville |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Stoneham |
town |
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- Stow |
town |
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- Sudbury |
town |
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- Tewksbury |
town |
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- Townsend |
town |
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- Tyngsborough |
town |
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- Wakefield |
town |
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- Waltham |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Watertown |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Wayland |
town |
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- Westford |
town |
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- Weston |
town |
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- Wilmington |
town |
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- Winchester |
town |
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- Woburn |
city |
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County Resources:
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County Resource Guide
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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic
features of our country!"
But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.
Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally,
act locally." |
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