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Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Suffolk County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Boston
Year Organized: 1643
Square Miles: 58 |
Court House: 24 New Chardon
County Courthouse
Boston, MA 02201-1001
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
For the English county of Suffolk
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 shires". Suffolk initially contained Boston, Roxbury,
Dorchester, Dedham, Braintree, Weymouth, Hingham, and Hull.[2] The county was named after Suffolk, England, and means
"southern folk."
In 1793 most of the original Suffolk County except for Boston and Chelsea (which remained in Suffolk) and Hingham and
Hull (which joined Plymouth County) split off and became Norfolk County.
Like an increasing number of Massachusetts counties, Suffolk County exists today only as a historical geographic region,
and has no county government. All former county functions were assumed by state agencies in 1999
Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 120 square miles (311 kmē), of which, 59
square miles (152 kmē) of it is land and 62 square miles (160 kmē) of it (51.32%) is water.
Neighboring Counties:
- Northeast: Essex County
- East: North Atlantic Ocean
- Southwest: Norfolk County
- Northwest: Middlesex County
Cities and Towns:
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- Boston
(County Seat) |
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- Cambridge |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Chelsea |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Revere |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Winthrop |
town |
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,
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