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100 unusual facts about Massachusetts


Acoustic Citsuoca

The packaging claims it was recorded at the Startime Pavilion in Braintree, MA on October 31, 2003, a show which did not, in fact, occur.

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.

Alvah Augustus Eaton

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

American Steam Car

The American Steam Car was a product of the American Steam Automobile Co, West Newton, Massachusetts, from 1924 to 1942.

Arthur Stephen Lane

Born in Arlington, Massachusetts, Lane received a B.A. from Princeton University in 1934, where he received the Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, Princeton's highest undergraduate honor.

Aspen Technology

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

Auburndale, Queens

The name comes from Auburndale, Massachusetts, the home of L. H. Green who developed the community starting in 1901, when the Long Island Railroad started offering train service to the area.

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.

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.

Beckett Hall

The estate and the Barrington family who lived there were the inspirations for the naming of Becket, Massachusetts and Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

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.

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–UMass football rivalry

After 22 years, the rivalry was renewed as UMass traveled to Chestnut Hill, MA to play Boston College once again.

Boston Neck

On the night of April 18, 1775, Patriot leader Doctor Joseph Warren sent Paul Revere and William Dawes on horseback with identical written messages to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams of the British expedition to capture them and to seize the powder in Concord.

Cambridge, Ohio

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

Catherine Steiner-Adair

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

Chad Wicks

In 2000, Wicks started his training at the Chaotic Training Center in North Andover, Massachusetts as "Lifesaver" Billy Kryptonite.

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.

Coast Guard Station Provincetown

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

Commerce Insurance Group

Commerce Insurance was founded in 1972 as small insurance company in the south-central Massachusetts town of Webster where the company is still located and headquartered.

Cotton Tufts

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

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.

Douglas Kiker

He died at the age of 61 from a heart attack, while vacationing in Chatham, Massachusetts.

East Otis, Massachusetts

East Otis is part of the town of Otis in Berkshire County, Massachusetts.

Eastern Air Defense Sector

The organization was in large part responsible for one of the foundational projects of the computer era: the development of the SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment) air defense system, from its first test at Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1951, to the installation of the first unit of the New York Air Defense Sector of the SAGE system, in 1958.

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 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.

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.

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.

In 1684, the town of Newbury, Massachusetts, though retaining the Cross of St George, changed to a green flag.

Francis Ayer

Ayer was born to Nathaniel Wheeler Ayer and Joanna B. Wheeler in Lee, Massachusetts, though he was raised in western New York.

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.

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.

George Schussel

Prior to founding DCI in 1983, Schussel was Vice President and CIO at the American Mutual Group of insurance companies in Wakefield, 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.

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.

Harold Dow Bugbee

Bugbee was born in Lexington, Massachusetts, to Charles H. Bugbee and the former Grace L. Dow.

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.

Huntsman Gay Global Capital

Huntsman Gay Global Capital which was originally named Huntsman Gay Capital Partners, has offices in Salt Lake City, Utah, West Palm Beach, Florida, Foxborough, Massachusetts and Palo Alto, California.

IBRIX Fusion

The software was produced, sold, and supported by IBRIX Incorporated of Billerica, Massachusetts.

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.

Jennifer Howard

Howard lost her father nine years later in a tractor mishap on their farm near Tyringham, Massachusetts.

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.

Joseph Blunt

Joseph Blunt (February 1792, Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts – June 16, 1860, New York City) was an American lawyer, author, editor and politician from New York.

Kanton Island

Three of the survivors, including Capt. Wing and Thomas E. Braley settled in Acushnet, Massachusetts.

Laurel Hill Association

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

Leigh Marble

The son of two Harvard, Massachusetts software engineers and nephew of science fiction novelist Piers Anthony, Leigh Marble is also the direct descendant of 19th century spiritualist Hiram Marble who spent years vainly searching for pirate's treasure that he believed lay buried within the abandoned cave of Dungeon Rock (now part of the Lynn Woods Reservation of eastern Massachusetts).

Lenox Dale, Massachusetts

There is also a marble quarry on the border with the town of Washington.

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.

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.

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.

Massachusetts Route 101

From Templeton, Route 101 enters the city of Gardner, acting as one of the main streets through town.

Massachusetts Route 133

Route 133 begins at the junction of Route 38 and Route 110 in Lowell, where Route 110 begins a concurrency with Route 38 northbound.

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.

Millstone Hill Observatory

Millstone Hill Observatory is a Massachusetts Institute of Technology atmospheric sciences research centre in Westford, Massachusetts.

Nabnasset, Massachusetts

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

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.

Ocean Grove

Ocean Grove, Massachusetts, a census-designated place in Swansea, Massachusetts, United States

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.

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.

Pervez Taufiq

Pervez Taufiq (born November 27, 1974 in Lowell, Massachusetts), is both the vocalist and primary songwriter for the hard rock band, Living Syndication.

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.

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.

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 P. Imbelli

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

Sarah Fuller

She was born in Weston, Massachusetts to Harvey and Celynda (Fiske) Fuller, and was educated at Allan English and Classical School, located in West Newton.

Selman Waksman

Selman Waksman died on August 16, 1973 and was interred at the Crowell Cemetery in Woods Hole, Barnstable County, Massachusetts.

Seth Berry

He attended high school at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, during which time he interned in the Washington, D.C., congressional office for Maine's District 1 representative, John R. McKernan, Jr..

Still River, Massachusetts

Still River is a village located on the west side of the town of Harvard, Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States.

Street in Venice

Oil on canvas, 46 cm × 37.5 cm, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown

Susan McFarland Parkhurst

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

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.

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.

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.

Valerie Barsom

She represented the 13th Hampden District, encompassing portions of Springfield, Wilbraham and East Longmeadow.

Voice of the Faithful

VOTF began when a small group of parishioners met in the basement of St. John the Evangelist Church in Wellesley, Massachusetts, to pray over allegations that a priest had abused local youngsters.

Wendy Murray

She completed a master’s degree in theological studies (New Testament) at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, S. Hamilton, Massachusetts, graduating magna cum laude in 1985.

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.

Woods Hole Train Station

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

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.

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.

Annite

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

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

Celtic Ash

On the advice of Irish-born trainer Tom Barry, Celtic Ash was purchased by Boston, Massachusetts banker Joseph E. O'Connell, who imported him to the United States to race for his Green Dunes Farm.

Christiana Morgan

The nude portrait statue of Morgan commissioned by Murray from Gaston Lachaise is now owned by the Governor’s Academy, Byfield, Massachusetts.

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.

Edward Little

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

Fan Fair

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

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 Churchill

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

George Ohsawa

They are, in particular, Herman Aihara in California, Roland Yasuhara in Belgium (where LIMA, the well-known manufacturer of macrobiotic products was born), Tomio Kikuchi in Brazil, Clim Yoshimi in France, and Michio Kushi in 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.

Huntington family

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

Intervale

Intervale Factory, a historic factory building in Haverhill, Massachusetts

John B. Chapin

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

John Denison

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

John McDonough

John E. McDonough (born 1953), member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, 1985–1997

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.

Nathaniel Gorham

In connection with Oliver Phelps, he purchased from the state of Massachusetts in 1788 pre-emption rights to an immense tract of land in western New York State which straddled the Genesee River, all for the sum of $1,000,000 (the Phelps and Gorham Purchase).

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)

Quentin Compson

A plaque on the Anderson Memorial Bridge (commonly but incorrectly called Larz Anderson Bridge) over the Charles River in Cambridge, Massachusetts, commemorates his life and death.

Sanborn House

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

Simeon Thayer

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

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.

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.

Thomas McGee

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

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.

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.

Winslow Sargeant

Sargeant's parents immigrated to the U.S. from Barbados and he grew up in Dorchester, Massachusetts, "one of Boston's mostly minority neighborhoods".

WTXX

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

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

Zajonc

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