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100 unusual facts about Massachusetts


2009 Emerald Bowl

USC had won both games in the series, a 23–17 victory in Los Angeles in 1987 and a 34–7 win in Chestnut Hill in 1988.

Agawam, Massachusetts

Ipswich, Massachusetts was also known as Agawam during much of the 17th century, after the English name for the Agawam tribe of northeastern Massachusetts.

Air New England Flight 248

Air New England Flight 248 was a commercial airliner that crashed on approach to Barnstable Municipal Airport in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, on 17 June 1979.

Albany River Rats

On February 19, 2009, five people were seriously injured when a bus carrying the team home from a game in Lowell struck a guard rail and rolled on its side on Interstate 90 in Becket, Massachusetts.

Alice Barrows

Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, the daughter of Charles Dana Barrows and Marion Merrill, Alice graduated from Vassar College with an A.B. During 1901–03, she was employed as an English teacher at the Packer Collegiate Institute, then she taught English at the Ethical School in New York City from 1903–04.

Alvah Augustus Eaton

He went on three field trips to Florida and one to Europe for the Ames Botanical Laboratory in Easton, Massachusetts.

Ameridose

The original location of the company's plant was in Framingham, Massachusetts next to its sister-companies New England Compounding Center and Medical Sales Management.

Annite

Annite was first described in 1868 for the first noted occurrence in Cape Ann, Rockport, Essex County, Massachusetts, US.

Aspen Technology

Headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, USA, Aspentech has 34 offices in 27 countries, spanning 6 continents.

Avidyne Corporation

Avidyne Corporation is an avionics company based in Lincoln, Massachusetts.

Banning Lyon

In the summer of 2010 Mr. Lyon lived and worked as first mate aboard the SV Valora, a wooden schooner based out of Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts.

Beau MacMillan

At 16 years old, MacMillan started working at Crane Brook Tea Room in Carver.

Becker guitars

Becker soon moved from its smaller shop in Stoughton, Massachusetts to a larger space in Attleboro, Massachusetts in order to accommodate a growing production line.

Benson Leavitt

On October 1, 1845, Mayor Thomas Aspinwall Davis wrote Board of Aldermen chairman Benson Leavitt from his home in Brookline.

Biblical Witness Fellowship

Founded in 1978 as the United Church People for Biblical Witness, the movement reorganized as the Biblical Witness Fellowship at a national convocation in Byfield, Massachusetts in 1984, hosted by the current president of BWF, the Rev. Dr. William Boylan.

Blue Hill Country Club

Blue Hill Country Club is a private country club located in Canton, Massachusetts established in 1925.

Bread and Roses Heritage Festival

Bread and Roses is the only broadly multicultural festival in Lawrence, the Immigrant City.

Catherine Clark Kroeger

In their latter years they resided on Cape Cod in Brewster, Massachusetts.

Catherine Steiner-Adair

She has a private psychotherapy practice in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts where she works with adolescents, adults, couples, and families.

Charles Devens

Fort Devens in central Massachusetts, which opened in 1917, was named after him, as was its successor, the Census-designated place Devens, Massachusetts.

Charlie Davies

Born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, as a child Davies was encouraged to play soccer and coached by his father Kofi Davies, an immigrant from the Gambia.

Church Lawford

Church Lawford along with Cambridge, Massachusetts is said to be the inspiration for the poem as the poet visited England for a three-year trip.

Coast Guard Station Provincetown

United States Coast Guard Station Provincetown is a United States Coast Guard station located in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Defunct townships of Cuyahoga County, Ohio

The township was first settled in 1811 by the family of one Seth Payne, who came from Williamsburg, Massachusetts, and who was soon followed by several other families.

Dr. Edgar Everett Dean House

Edgar Everett Dean House is an historic house at 81 Green Street in Brockton, Massachusetts.

Dudley W. Adams

Dudley Whitney Adams (November 30, 1831, Winchendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts – February 13, 1897, Tangerine, Florida) was a horticulturalist who led the granger movement.

Eber Brock Ward

In 1861 Ward and Zoheth S. Durfee of New Bedford, Massachusetts, obtained control of the patents of William Kelly, credited in Europe to Henry Bessemer.

Evelyn Sears

Evelyn Georgianna Sears (March 9, 1875, Waltham, Massachusetts - November 10, 1966, Waltham) was an American tennis player at the beginning of the 20th century.

F Jackie

F Jackie was recorded live at The Comedy Place in Andover, Massachusetts on May 12 and 13, 2000.

Fishbone, Wishbone, Funnybone

Fishbone, Wishbone, Funnybone is an album by Massachusetts folk musician Zoë Lewis, released in 2001.

Frederic C. Lawrence

He was later appointed rector of St. Paul's Church in nearby Brookline.

Gene Lindsey

Gene Lindsey is President and CEO Emeritus of Atrius Health and Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates and a resident of Wellesley, Massachusetts.

Gerard C. Bond

He worked at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York as Head of the Deep-Sea Sample Repository, after teaching briefly at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts and the University of California, Davis.

Girl Authority

The group chose the song "I Am Me", a song written by a fourteen-year-old girl named Allison Boudreau from Swansea, Massachusetts.

Goodell Glacier

It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Janice G. Goodell of the United States Geological Survey, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, a support member of the Glacier Studies Project Team from the early 1990s onwards.

Gregory Mangin

In 1931 Mangin, partnering with compatriot Berkeley Bell, were runners-up in the doubles final of the U.S. National Championships, played in Brookline, MA, losing in straight sets to compatriots John Van Ryn and Wilmer Allison.

Gunpowder Incident

In early September, General Thomas Gage, the royal governor of Massachusetts, had removed gunpowder from a powder magazine in Charlestown (in a location now in Somerville), and militia from all over New England had flocked to the area in response to false rumors that violence had been involved.

Hampden Bank

As of 2011, Hampden Bank has ten office locations in Springfield, Agawam, Longmeadow, West Springfield, Wilbraham, at Tower Square in Metro Center Springfield, and in Indian Orchard.

Historical United States Census totals for Suffolk County, Massachusetts

Like most areas of New England, Suffolk County is (and has been at all times since well before the 20th century) entirely divided into incorporated municipalities.

Horace Gregory

Horace Gregory (April 10, 1898 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin – March 11, 1982 in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts) was a prize-winning American poet, translator of classic poetry, literary critic and college professor.

Howard Petrie

When Howard was three years old his family moved to Concord, Massachusetts The Petries later lived in Arlington, Massachusetts and then Somerville, Massachusetts, where Howard Petrie received his secondary school education.

Huntley N. Spaulding

Huntley Nowel Spaulding was born in Townsend Harbor, Massachusetts in 1869, to Jonas Spaulding and his wife, Emaline Cummings.

Isaac Hall House

Isaac Hall House is a historic house at 43 High Street in Medford, Massachusetts.

Jagdgeschwader 5

It was originally being restored by The White 1 Foundation in Kissimmee, Florida, until its 2012 transfer to the Collings Foundation in Stow, Massachusetts.

Joaquín Nin-Culmell

He taught at Middlebury College, Vermont for two years before joining the music department of Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts (where Stephen Sondheim was one of his students).

Joe Cronin

Cronin died at the age of 77 on September 7, 1984, in Osterville, Massachusetts, and is buried in St. Francis Xavier Cemetery in nearby Centerville.

Jon Shain

For high school, Shain attended The Governor's Academy in Byfield, Massachusetts, where he met up with other aspiring musicians among its small student body.

Larinda

It was moved from its home to the launching point in Falmouth, Massachusetts.

Laurel Hill Association

Founded in 1853 in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, it has played a key role in the beautification of the town.

Lowell Junction

Lowell Junction is a railroad junction located in Andover, Massachusetts, about one mile south of the village of Ballardvale.

Manhattan Board of Coroners

In 1914 Israel L. Feinberg, President of the Manhattan Board of Coroners, suggested switching to a medical examiner style office like the one used in Massachusetts.

Marie Eguro

Marie attended Troy Junior High School in Shorewood Illinois, moved on to Phillips Academy, Andover for her high school years, and went on to graduate cum laude from Harvard University in 1996 with a major in chemistry.

Markku Uusipaavalniemi

Two weeks before the start of the 2006 World Men's Curling Championship in Lowell, Massachusetts, Uusipaavalniemi suffered a wrist injury that forced him to miss the team's first three games of the competition.

Merchant W. Huxford

He was born in Conway, Massachusetts and later moved to St. Marys, Ohio before finally settling permanently in Fort Wayne.

Merrimac Square

Merrimac Square is located in the center of the town of Merrimac, Massachusetts.

Morrison I. Swift

Morrison I. Swift retired to Newton Centre, Massachusetts where he boarded in the home of a music teacher and author.

Moses Packard House

Moses Packard House is an historic house at 647 Main Street in Brockton, Massachusetts.

Musketaquid Mills

Musketaquid Mills is a historic mill building at 131 Davidson Street in Lowell, Massachusetts.

Nabnasset, Massachusetts

Nabnasset is a village located in the northeastern portion of Westford, Massachusetts, between North Chelmsford, Dunstable, Graniteville and Westford Center.

Norumbega

In the late 19th century, Eben Norton Horsford linked the name and legend of Norumbega to sites in the Cambridge, Massachusetts area, and built the Norumbega Tower at the confluence of Stony Brook and the Charles River in Weston, Massachusetts, where he believed Fort Norumbega was located (see the Horsford article for more on his claims).

Oliver's Story

The Stanley Woolen Mill in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, and other locations in that community were used for this film.

Osgood Perkins

Perkins was born James Ripley Osgood Perkins in West Newton, Massachusetts, son of Henry Phelps Perkins, Jr., and his wife, Helen Virginia (née Anthony).

Patricia Courtney

Born in Everett, Massachusetts, Pat Courtney graduated from Everett High School, where she excelled in sports.

Patrick Tracy Jackson

He was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, the youngest son of Jonathan Jackson and his second wife, Hannah Tracy Jackson.

Pentucket Regional High School

The school's main rival is Triton Regional High School of nearby Byfield, against whom Pentucket plays football on Thanksgiving Day.

Peterboro Basket Company

The company's history dates to 1841, when Amzi Childs came to Peterborough from Deerfield, Massachusetts to work on the manufacture of lead pipe.

Pierpont Township, Ashtabula County, Ohio

In November 1811, Benjamin Matthews arrived from Washington, Massachusetts, and located temporarily near the cabin of Vosburg; he remained until the December following, when he moved into a cabin which he had in the meantime constructed.

Plymouth High School

Plymouth North High School of Plymouth, Massachusetts, formerly Plymouth-Carver High School, and prior to that, Plymouth High School.

Punchbowl.com

Punchbowl.com is a free web-based party planning service and digital greeting cards site based in Framingham, Massachusetts.

Quentin Tod

Quentin Tod was born in Kent, England, son of Alexander Maxwell Tod, an Englishman, and his American wife Belle Perkins Tod, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

Richard Tufts

Born in Medford, Massachusetts, he was a grandson of James Walker Tufts, the founder of Pinehurst Resort in North Carolina, which was long America's preeminent golf resort.

Robbie Mustoe

After retiring as a player, Mustoe moved to Lexington, Massachusetts in the United States where he coached college soccer.

Robert E. Clary

Born March 21, 1805 in Ashfield, Massachusetts, the second son of Electa (Smith) and Ethan Allen Clary was named after the recently executed Irish patriot Robert Emmet.

Robert Kelker-Kelly

From 2002-2003 he was an acting teacher at the Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter High School (PVPA), in Hadley, Massachusetts (currently in South Hadley).

Robert L. D. Potter

At the age of nine his family moved to Egremont, Massachusetts, where he remained until about 20 years old, when he left to attend Union Law School in Easton, Pennsylvania, receiving his degree in 1857.

Robert P. Imbelli

Currently, Father Imbelli is an associate professor of Theology at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

Robin Lane

Since then, Lane has moved to western Massachusetts, where she works with the Turners Falls, Massachusetts Women's Resource Center, using music therapy to aid survivors of abuse.

Sagamore Train Station

The former Sagamore Train Station was located on Freight House Road in Sagamore, Massachusetts on Cape Cod.

Sante Graziani

From 1951 to 1981, Graziani was at the School of the Worcester Art Museum in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he taught and was also Dean.

Steve Krug

Steve Krug is an information architect and user experience professional based in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

Susan McFarland Parkhurst

Susan McFarland was born in Leicester, Massachusetts, and composed popular songs and parlour piano solos during the 1860s.

Tabitha Brown

Born on May 1, 1780, in Brimfield, Massachusetts, Tabitha was the daughter of Lois Haynes Moffatt and Dr. Joseph Moffatt.

Thomas Hardiman

Thomas Michael Hardiman (born July 8, 1965 in Winchester, Massachusetts) is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Thomas Junta

Thomas Junta of Reading, Massachusetts was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in 2002 after he attacked Michael Costin, at 51 Symonds Way on July 5, 2000, who later died of his injuries.

Thomas Oliver Selfridge

Rear Admiral Selfridge died in Waverly (now part of Belmont, Massachusetts).

Thorvald Solberg

Thorvald Solberg was married to Mary Adelaide Nourse of Lynn, Massachusetts.

Tisbury

Tisbury, Massachusetts, United States, on the island of Martha's Vineyard.

Tony Tulathimutte

Raised in South Hadley, Massachusetts, he is currently a times square mascot, and formerly worked as a writer and researcher on user experience topics.

U.S. Route 6 in Indiana

U.S. Route 6 (US 6) is a part of the United States Numbered Highway that runs from California to Provincetown, Massachusetts.

UConn–UMass football rivalry

The first game played between the two schools took place on November 6, 1897, in Amherst, Massachusetts.

United States presidential election in Massachusetts, 1928

The remaining two counties that went to Smith were Bristol County, south of the Boston area, and rural Berkshire County in the far west of the state.

United States Senate special election in Massachusetts, 1962

In the Republican primary, George C. Lodge, a former member of the Eisenhower administration and the son of Henry Cabot Lodge, defeated Laurence Curtis, the Representative from Massachusetts's 10th congressional district in the Republican primary.

ViziApps

The online ViziApps Studio is provided by ViziApps, Inc. based in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

West Indian manatee

While this is a regularly occurring species along coastal southern Florida, during summer, this large mammal has even been found as far north as Dennis, Massachusetts and as far west as Texas.

WGBX-TV

WGBX-TV first signed on the air on September 25, 1967; its transmitter has been located in Needham (on a broadcast tower that is now operated by CBS Corporation, and is used by some of the Boston markets' commercial television stations, including CBS-owned WBZ-TV), WGBX's current digital transmitter shares the master antenna at the very top of the tower with the commercial stations.

Wilder Street Historic District

Wilder Street Historic District is a historic district at 284-360 Wilder Street in Lowell, Massachusetts.

William Dummer

Dummer then retired, dividing time between his farm in Byfield and his home in Boston.

WMFP

WMFP maintains studio facilities located on Lakeland Park Drive in Peabody, and its transmitter (which is shared with radio station FM-128) is located in Needham.

Workman-Temple family

Pliny Fisk Temple-F.P.T was named for a Congregationalist missionary in Palestine, was born to Jonathan Temple and Lucinda Parker in Reading, Massachusetts, near Boston.

Zeno Scudder

He was admitted to the Bar in 1856 and conducted a lucrative practice in Barnstable, Massachusetts.


1996 Atlantic 10 Men's Basketball Tournament

Future NBA players Marcus Camby (Massachusetts), Marc Jackson (Temple), and Tyson Wheeler (Rhode Island) were among those also named to the All-Championship Team.

Academy Hill Historic District

Westminster Village-Academy Hill Historic District, Westminster, MA, listed on the NRHP in Massachusetts

Adams family political line

George Washington Adams (1801-1828), Massachusetts State Representative 1826.

Addington Palace

Mr Trecothick had been raised in Boston, Massachusetts, and became a merchant there; he then moved to London still trading as a merchant, and later became Lord Mayor and then an MP.

Afrocentrism

Mary Lefkowitz, Professor Emerita of Classical Studies at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, has rejected George James's theories about Egyptian contributions to Greek civilization as being faulty scholarship.

Arthur Raymond Brooks

He graduated as valedictorian from Framingham Academy and High School in Massachusetts in 1913 and from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1917.

Assumption High School

Assumption Preparatory School or Assumption High School, a school in Worcester, Massachusetts

Bear Swamp Hydroelectric Power Station

Bear Swamp Generating Station is a pumped-storage hydroelectric underground power station that straddles the Deerfield River in Rowe and Florida, Massachusetts.

Charles Ingersoll

Charles Fortescue Ingersoll (1791–1832), Massachusetts-born Canadian businessman and political figure who served in War of 1812 and represented Oxford County in Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1824 until his death from cholera

Christopher Wilkins

Wilkins was born in Boston, Massachusetts where by 1978 he obtained bachelor's degree from Harvard College He studied with German-born conductor named Otto-Werner Mueller while being enrolled into Yale University and got his Master of Music degree from there by 1981.

Committee of Five

On June 11, the members of the Committee of Five were appointed; they were: John Adams of Massachusetts, Roger Sherman of Connecticut, Robert Livingston of New York, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, and Thomas Jefferson of Virginia.

Cotton Tufts

Cotton Tufts (born in Medford, Massachusetts, 30 May 1734; died in Weymouth, Massachusetts, 8 December 1815) was a Massachusetts physician.

East Mountain

East Mountain, part of the southern Green Mountains located in Clarksburg, Massachusetts and traversed by the Appalachian Trail

Edward Teshmaker Busk

Hunsaker, Jerome C. Dynamical Stability of Aeroplanes, U. S. Navy and Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Fan Fair

Fantasia Fair, a transgender and cross-dressing conference in Massachusetts

George Bachrach

In 1998, he again sought the Democratic nomination for the 8th District seat in the United States House of Representatives but finished third in the primary, losing to Mike Capuano, who later won the seat.

George Churchill

George B. Churchill (1866–1925), U.S. Representative from Massachusetts

Greens/Green Party USA

The Clearinghouse has operated from various locations, including (originally) Kansas City, Missouri; Blodgett Mills, New York; Lawrence, Massachusetts; and Chicago, Illinois.

Harold M. Westergaard

Harold Malcolm Westergaard (9 October 1888 Copenhagen, Denmark – 22 June 1950 Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA).

Haverhill Gazette

The Haverhill Gazette (est.1821) is a weekly newspaper in Massachusetts, owned by Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. of Montgomery, Alabama.

Huntington family

Huntington Avenue, after Ralph Huntington (1784–1866), in Boston, Massachusetts

Indian Dormitory Art Museum

The Massachusetts poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow studied Schoolcraft's works for themes and inspiration for his epic poem, The Song of Hiawatha.

James Hodges

James L. Hodges, (1790–1846), delegate from Massachusetts in the United States House of Representatives

John Denison

John A. Denison, American Politician of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1875-1948

John Weeks

John W. Weeks (1860–1926), U.S. Senator from Massachusetts and Secretary of War

Kennedy Building

Kennedy-Worthington Blocks, Springfield, Massachusetts, listed on the NRHP in Hampden County

Mechanics Arts High School

John D. O'Bryant School of Mathematics & Science in Boston, Massachusetts, originally named "Mechanic Arts High School"

Minear

Richard Minear, Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst

Mini-Tuesday

The Democratic primaries and caucuses were contested between retired General Wesley Clark of Arkansas, former Governor Howard Dean of Vermont, Senator John Edwards of North Carolina, Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, Congressman Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, and the Reverend Al Sharpton of New York.

Myah Moore

She did not place in the nationally televised pageant, which was won by Susie Castillo of Massachusetts.

Navid

Naveed Nour, an international artist and photographer based in Boston, Massachusetts

Nonproliferation Policy Education Center

Richard K. Lester – Director, Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Industrial Performance Center (IPC) and professor of nuclear science and engineering

Olmsted Park System

Olmsted Park, Boston and Brookline, Massachusetts, also known as Olmsted Park System (and listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) under that name)

Paper cup

Dixie Cup is the brand name for a line of disposable paper cups that were first developed in the United States in 1907 by Lawrence Luellen, a lawyer in Boston, Massachusetts, who was concerned about germs being spread by people sharing glasses or dippers at public supplies of drinking water.

Phil Brooks

Phillips Brooks (1835–1893), Bishop of Massachusetts in the Episcopal Church during the early 1890s

Philip Berrigan

These people stole files out of 4 Boston Draft Boards in order to prove that the State of Massachusetts was drafting mostly Puerto Ricans and poor whites to fill their quotas.

Sanborn House

Rev. Peter Sanborn House, Reading, MA, listed on the NRHP in Massachusetts

Spare Change

Spare Change News, a street newspaper founded in 1992 and published in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Star Island

The Star Island conference center is owned and operated by the Star Island Corporation, a not-for-profit United States Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3) membership organization incorporated in the state of Massachusetts.

Telco

Telco Systems, a telecommunications systems manufacturer based in Mansfield, Massachusetts, USA

Thomas McGee

Thomas W. McGee (1924–2012), speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives

United States House of Representatives elections in Massachusetts, 1790

Elections for the United States House of Representatives for the 2nd Congress were held in Massachusetts on October 4, 1790, with subsequent elections held in four districts due to a majority not being achieved on the first ballot.

Vokes Theatre

The theater is located on the estate of Herford and her husband, Sidney Hayward and has been designated as a Massachusetts Historical Site.

Webster County, Georgia

The County is named for Daniel Webster, U.S. representative of New Hampshire and U.S. representative and U.S. senator of Massachusetts.

WGBH

WGBH-TV, a public television station based in Boston, Massachusetts

WRLM

WSNE-FM, a radio station (93.3 FM) licensed to Taunton, Massachusetts, United States, which used the call signs WRLM and WRLM-FM from 1966 until 1980

WUPE

WBEC-FM, a radio station (95.9 FM) licensed to Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States, which used the call signs WUPE-FM and WUPE from 1977 until 2006

Yatri

It was invented by Benjamin Franklin in the 18th century and recreated for Yatri by the late Gerhard Finkenbeiner, a master glass blower in Waltham Massachusetts from Franklin’s original sketches.