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100 unusual facts about Massachusetts


2010 KQ

It was given the asteroid designation 2010 KQ by the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who identified its orbit as being very similar to that of the Earth.

457th Air Expeditionary Group

On Saturday, 28 July, Lieutenant Colonel William F. Smith lost his way while ferrying a B-25 Mitchell bomber from Bedford, Massachusetts, to Sioux Falls AAF via Newark Airport.

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.

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.

Albert Pike

Pike was born in Boston, Massachusetts, son of Ben and Sarah (Andrews) Pike, and spent his childhood in Byfield and Newburyport, Massachusetts.

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.

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.

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.

Blue Hill Country Club

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

Bolide

For example, the Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center of the USGS uses bolide as a generic term that describes any large crater-forming impacting body of which its composition (for example, whether it is a rocky or metallic asteroid, or an icy comet) is unknown.

Boston College Eagles men's basketball

The Boston College Eagles are a Division I college basketball program that represents Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States.

Brigham's Ice Cream

It was founded in Newton Highlands, Massachusetts.

Cambridge, Ohio

Both Cambridge, Maryland and Cambridge, Massachusetts have been speculated by historians as having inspired the naming of the town.

Catherine Clark Kroeger

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

Charles Lenox Remond

Remond was born in Salem, Massachusetts to John Remond, a free man of color from the island of Curaçao, who was a hairdresser, and Nancy Lenox, daughter of a prominent Bostonian, a hairdresser and caterer.

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.

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.

Domenic Sarno

As part of a host agreement, MGM pledged to pay the city $25 million per year in return for permission to build an $800 million resort in the city’s South End.

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.

Edward G. Walker

Having been inspired by Blackstone's Commentaries, Walker studied law at the Georgetown, Massachusetts office of Charles A. Tweed and John Q. A. Griffin.

Ephraim Porter Felt

Ephraim Porter Felt (7 January 1868 Salem - 14 December 1943) was an American entomologist who specialised in Diptera

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.

Fall River Government Center

The city's historic 19th century city hall was demolished in the early 1960s for construction of Interstate 195, which cut through the heart of downtown Fall River.

Fast day

The earliest known fast day was proclaimed in Boston on September 8, 1670.

Fishbone, Wishbone, Funnybone

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

Flag of New England

On 8 June 1989 the New England Governor's Conference (NEGC) adopted a flag designed by Albert Ebinger of Ipswich, Massachusetts, as the official flag of the New England Governors’ Conference.

George Davis Snell

Snell was educated in the Brookline, Massachusetts schools and then enrolled at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire where he continued his passion for mathematics and science, focusing on genetics.

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.

Giuseppina Morlacchi

The couple settled in a country estate in Lowell, Massachusetts with an additional home Leadville, Colorado, although she continued to perform, both with her husband in western dramas, and solo.

Gregory P. Baxter

Born in Somerville, Massachusetts, Baxter became an instructor in chemistry at Harvard in 1897.

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.

Henry Perky

The biscuits proved more popular than the machines, so Perky moved East and opened his first bakery in Boston, Massachusetts and then in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1895, retaining the name of The Cereal Machine Company, and adding the name of the Shredded Wheat Company.

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.

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.

Jack Le Goff

After retiring as the American coach, he spent five years in Hamilton, Massachusetts as the Director of the United States Equestrian Team (USET) Training Center.

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.

James Dobb

Whilst not winning any major titles, he was one of the series' top riders, winning an AMA National at Southwick.

James William Greig

Greig married Jeannie Taylor, daughter of Captain Edward Brown from Salem, Massachusetts.

Jeffrey Lynn

Born Ragnar Lind in Auburn, Massachusetts, Lynn was a school teacher before he began his acting career.

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.

Joe Sostilio

In 1946, he piloted the Koopman Offenhauser and finished 4th in BSMRA points, competing at tracks from Seekonk, Massachusetts to Akron, Ohio.

Johnny Kelley

In 1993, a statue of Kelley to commemorate him was erected near the City Hall of Newton, Massachusetts, on the Boston Marathon course, one hill and about one mile prior to the foot of Heartbreak Hill.

Julius Edgar Lilienfeld

They lived in Winchester, Massachusetts, while Lilienfeld was director of the Ergon Research Laboratories in Malden, Massachusetts.

Larinda

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

Linwood Clark

He graduated from Milton Academy of Milton, Massachusetts, in 1899, from the American University of Harriman in Harriman, Tennessee, in 1902, and from the law department of the University of Maryland in 1904.

Long-tailed shrew

In Massachusetts, the long-tailed shrew is only found in Berkshire County.

Maria Altmann

Traveling by way of Liverpool, England, they reached the United States and settled first in Fall River, Massachusetts, and eventually in Los Angeles, California.

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.

Mark Mancuso

Mark Mancuso (born in West Newton, Massachusetts) is an American meteorologist formerly employed by The Weather Channel in Atlanta, Georgia and now with AccuWeather in State College, Pennsylvania.

Massachusetts Route 35

Route 35 is a Massachusetts State Route running through the towns of Danvers and Peabody in northeastern Massachusetts.

Massachusetts Route 38

Route 38 is a state highway in Massachusetts, United States, running 27 miles (44 km.) from Sullivan Square in Boston north via Lowell to the state line in Dracut, where it continues as New Hampshire Route 38 in Pelham, New Hampshire.

Matthew A. Reynolds

He graduated from Tabor Academy in Marion, Massachusetts and received his B.S.F.S. degree and the Dean's Citation from the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University.

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.

In 1911 he submitted bills to the General Court of Massachusetts on subjects as varied as the control of pine forests and regulation of prostitution.

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.

New England Southern Railroad

It is currently on delivery to NEGS and as of June 15 was in Chelmsford, Massachusetts.

Newburyport Railroad

The first company was incorporated in 1846 and opened a line from Newburyport on the Eastern to Georgetown in 1849, and west to the Boston and Maine Railroad at Bradford in 1851.

North Cambridge, Massachusetts

North Cambridge, also known as "Area 11", is a neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts bounded by Porter Square and the Fitchburg Line railroad tracks on the south, the city of Somerville on the northeast, Alewife Brook and the town of Arlington on the northwest, and the town of Belmont on the west.

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).

Old Colony Railroad

In the spring of 1854, construction continued, with the railroad reaching Barnstable village May 8, Yarmouth Port May 19, and finally Hyannis on July 8, 1854.

Oliver's Story

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

Osee M. Hall

Born in Conneaut, Ohio, he attended the local public schools and graduated from Hiram College in Ohio and from Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts in 1868.

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.

Paul C. Borgman

Paul Carlton Borgman (born 1940) is an author of religious works and professor of English at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts.

Paul Harney

As his competitive playing days were winding down, Harney used his prize money to open his own course in East Falmouth, Massachusetts, which he owned until his death.

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.

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).

Salisbury Beach Military Reservation

Salisbury Beach Military Reservation was a coastal defense site located in Salisbury, Massachusetts.

Samuel McClellan

He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, married Rachel Abbe (a descendant of Plymouth, Massachusetts Governor, William Bradford) on March 5, 1766, and is buried in Woodstock, Connecticut.

Shad fishing

Massachusetts and Vermont: Holyoke Dam — perhaps the state's most famous spot — is where the current world record was set in 1986.

Steve Krug

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

Stoughton Musical Society

From the inspiration of a singing school given in Stoughton in 1774 by Boston composer, William Billings, a group of male singers in town decided to form a singing society.

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 Abate

Thomas Joseph Abate III (born August 20, 1978, in Lawrence, Massachusetts), also known as Poverty, is a hip-hop artist and actor from the New England area.

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.

Thorvald Solberg

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

U Pandita

U Pandita became well known in the West after conducting a retreat in the spring of 1984 at the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Barre, Massachusetts in the United States.

Van Sweringen brothers

While Shaker Heights rose to join the ranks of Beverly Hills and Wellesley, Massachusetts, the rail empire suffered financial difficulties.

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 Claflin

Claflin was a major force in the development of the village of Newtonville in Newton, Massachusetts.

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.

Woods Hole Train Station

The Woods Hole Train Station was located on Railroad Avenue in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

Zeno Scudder

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

Aldgate

In 1773 Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley, the first book by an African American was published in Aldgate after her owners could not find a publisher in Boston, Massachusetts.

Alexander Gerschenkron

Alexander Gerschenkron (in Russian Александр Гершенкрон, * 1904 in Odessa, Russian Empire, now Ukraine, † 26 October 1978 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was a Russian-born American Jewish economic historian and professor in Harvard, trained in the Austrian School of economics.

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.

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.

David Germain

After leaving Shadows Fall in 2001, Germain joined Boston, Massachusetts based punk/ska band Jaya the Cat, who have recorded three studio albums (Basement Style, First Beer of a New Day and the latest, More Late Night Transmissions) as well as performing on the live album Ernesto's Burning.

Deadwater Drowning

Following the release of their self-titled EP, the band continued playing shows in their local area including a performance at the 5th annual New England Metal and Hardcore Festival in Worcester, Massachusetts.

East Mountain

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

Edward Little

Edward P. Little (1791–1875), U.S. Representative from Massachusetts

Edward Martell

After receiving his Ph. D., he became a group leader at the Fermi Institute for Nuclear Studies at the University of Chicago and also took up a position at the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratory in Bedford, Massachusetts.

Ephraim Hammond House

Cedar Hill, the estate which it is a part of, has been in the hands of the Massachusetts council of the Girl Scouts of the USA since the early 20th century.

Fire and Rain

In a BBC interview he said the song chronicled his experiences in mental institutions, such as his stay in McLean Hospital in Massachusetts as a senior in high school, and the suicide of a friend.

Frederick Lucian Hosmer

Frederick Lucian Hosmer (1840-1929) was an American Unitarian minister who served congregations in Massachusetts, Illinois, Ohio, Missouri, and California and who wrote many significant hymns.

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 Naccara

George Naccara is serving as the Federal Security Director (FSD) for the United States Transportation Security Administration under the Department of Homeland Security at Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts.

George Washington Colonials men's basketball

President Bill Clinton joined the Colonials at Charles E. Smith Center when John Calipari and the top-ranked Massachusetts Minutemen came to Washington.

Hancock

John Hancock Tower, a building in Boston, Massachusetts, owned by the insurance firm

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.

John B. Chapin

After a year, he transferred to Williams College (Massachusetts) and received the A.B. degree in 1850.

Joseph Kendall

Joseph G. Kendall (1788–1847), U.S. Representative from Massachusetts

Lorena, Texas

As she called for the election of Governor Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts and then U.S. Senator Lloyd M. Bentsen of Texas as President and Vice President of the United States, Richards read a letter from an unnamed young mother in Lorena who described herself as "forgotten" by the national leadership.

Michał Zadara

After two years of study, he took a leave of absence from Swarthmore, and studied directing at the Theatre Academy in Warsaw, and then oceanography at Sea Education Association in Massachusetts.

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.

New England Interstate Route 10

New England Route 10 was a multi-state north–south state highway in the New England region of the United States, running through Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire.

Nonproliferation Policy Education Center

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

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.

Piotr Gajewski

Upon completing his formal education, Gajewski continued refining his conducting skills at the 1983 Tanglewood Music Festival in Massachusetts, where he was awarded a Leonard Bernstein Conducting Fellowship and where his teachers included Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, André Previn, Gunther Schuller, Gustav Meier and Maurice Abravanel.

Sanborn House

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

Sara Moulton

She began working in restaurants immediately, first in Boston, Massachusetts, and then in New York City, taking off time only for a postgraduate apprenticeship with Master Chef Maurice Cazalis of the Henri IV Restaurant in Chartres, France, in 1979.

Simeon Thayer

Soon after, he joined Colonel Fry's Massachusetts regiment and served in Rogers' Rangers during three separate clashes with French-allied Indians.

SMOC

South Middlesex Opportunities Council, a private social service group in Massachusetts.

Suze Yalof Schwartz

Yalof Schwartz received a BA degree in Fine Arts and French from Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts and studied her junior year at the Sorbonne in Paris.

The State of Massachusetts

"The State of Massachusetts" is a song about the effects of drugs on individuals and their families by the Dropkick Murphys and was released as the first single from the album The Meanest of Times.

Transportation in the Halifax Regional Municipality

It has been shelved by HRM staff and politicians, pending the provincial government's creation of a regional transportation planning authority, similar to what eastern Massachusetts did in the 1960s when MBTA was created.

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.

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

WTXX

WTXX-LP, a low-power television station (channel 34) licensed to Springfield, Massachusetts, United States

Zajonc

Arthur Zajonc (born 1949), professor of physics at Amherst College in Massachusetts