Boxborough is a town in Middlesex County,Massachusetts,United States. The population was 5,506 at the 2020 census. The town name is often simplified to "Boxboro" on highway signs and official documents.
Stow is a town in Middlesex County,Massachusetts,United States. The town is located 21 miles west of Boston,in the MetroWest region of Massachusetts. The population was 7,174 at the 2020 United States Census. Stow was officially incorporated in 1683 with an area of approximately 40 square miles. Over centuries it gave up land as newer,smaller towns were created,ceding land to Harvard (1732),Shirley (1765),Boxborough (1783),Hudson (1866) and Maynard (1871). Stow now has an area of 18.1 square miles (47 km2). With the exception of factories at Assabet Village and Rock Bottom,Stow was primarily sparsely settled farm and orchard land until the 1950s.
Sudbury is a town in Middlesex County,Massachusetts,United States. At the 2020 census,it had a population of 18,934. The town,located in Greater Boston's MetroWest region,has a rich colonial history.
William Goffe (1605?–1679?) was an English Roundhead politician and soldier,perhaps best known for his role in the execution of King Charles I and later flight to America.
Maynard is a town in Middlesex County,Massachusetts,United States. The town is located 22 miles west of Boston,in the MetroWest and Greater Boston region of Massachusetts and borders Acton,Concord,Stow and Sudbury. The town's population was 10,746 as of the 2020 United States Census.
Julian Randolph Stow was an Australian-born writer,novelist and poet.
The Assabet River is a small,34.4-mile (55.4 km) long river located about 20 miles (30 km) west of Boston,Massachusetts,United States. The Assabet rises from a swampy area known as the Assabet Reservoir in Westborough,Massachusetts,and flows northeast before merging with the Sudbury River at Egg Rock in Concord,Massachusetts,to become the Concord River. The Organization for the Assabet,Sudbury and Concord Rivers (OARS),headquartered in West Concord,Massachusetts,is a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation,protection,and enhancement of the natural and recreational features of these three rivers and their watershed. As the Concord River is a tributary of the Merrimack River,it and the Assabet and Sudbury rivers are part of the larger Merrimack River watershed.
Massachusetts's 4th congressional district is located mostly in southern Massachusetts. It is represented by Democrat Jake Auchincloss. Jake Auchincloss won this seat in the 2020 election.
Massachusetts's 5th congressional district is a congressional district in eastern Massachusetts. The district is represented by Katherine Clark. Massachusetts congressional redistricting after the 2010 census has changed the borders of the district starting with the elections of 2012,with the new 3rd district largely taking the place of the old 5th. The 5th district covers many of the communities represented in the old 7th district. As of 2010,the population of the 5th congressional district was 727,515. On July 15,2013,Ed Markey resigned from the seat to become the junior Senator from Massachusetts. On December 10,2013,Democrat Katherine Clark won a special election to fill the seat for the remainder of the 113th Congress. She was sworn into office on December 12,2013 and serves as the Assistant Speaker of the United States House of Representatives for the 117th Congress.
Area code 978 was created as a split from area code 508 on September 1,1997,and covers north central and most of northeastern Massachusetts. Use of 978 became mandatory on February 1,1998. Prior to when this area was served by 508,it was served only by the 617 area code,along with the rest of the eastern two-thirds of the state. 351 has been sharing the service area since May 2,2001. Since then,10 digit local dialing is mandatory.
Lake Boon is a lake in eastern Massachusetts covering about 163 acres (0.66 km2) in the towns of Stow and Hudson,Massachusetts. The lake is approximately 1.5 miles long and consists of four basins connected by narrows. The first and largest basin at the north-west end of the lake stretches from a dam along Barton Road in Stow down to narrows just above the towns south border. It is the only part of the lake that is completely within Stow. The second basin is about half the size of the first and straddles the border with Hudson. The 3rd and 4th basins at the eastern end of the lake are much smaller and less easily navigable due to shallow waters and significant plant-growth.
Baron Stow (1801–1869) was a Boston Baptist minister,writer and editor,who in 1843 with Samuel Francis Smith compiled a Baptist hymnal entitled:The Psalmist,which for the next thirty years was the most widely used Baptist Hymnal in the United States.
Stow Bardolph,sometimes simply referred to as Stow,is an estate and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk,lying between King's Lynn and Downham Market on the A10.
Elizabeth A. "Liz" Malia is an American politician from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. A Democrat,she has served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives since March 1998. She represents the Eleventh Suffolk district,which includes parts of the Boston neighborhoods of Jamaica Plain,Roslindale,Roxbury and Dorchester.
Kate Hogan is an American politician from Stow,Massachusetts. A Democrat,she is a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives representing the 3rd Middlesex district. She was first elected in 2008 and took office on January 7,2009.
The Massachusetts 3rd General Court District is an electoral district for the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Located in central Massachusetts,it comprises the towns of Hudson,Maynard and Stow,as well as the town of Bolton. Democrat Kate Hogan of Stow has represented the district since 2013. She is running unopposed for re-election in the 2020 Massachusetts general election.
Crow Island Airport is a private airport along the Assabet River in Stow,Massachusetts,United States. It has a 2,300 foot grass airstrip which is popular with "pilots flying a variety of aircraft including,trikes,ultralights,vintage taildraggers,seaplanes,hang gliders,powered paragliders,powered parachutes,RC aircraft and more."
The American Heritage Museum is a military history museum located on the grounds of the Collings Foundation in the town of Stow,Massachusetts,21 miles (34 km) west of Boston. The collection consists of over 100 artifacts,most of which were formerly part of the Military Vehicle Technology Foundation collection in Portola Valley,California. Over half of the items on display are from the World War II era,with World War I,the Korean War,Vietnam War,Gulf War,Iraq War,and the War on Terror are also represented. Most of the items on display are American,German,Russian,or British in origin.
The Robert Stow Bradley Jr. Memorial is a fountain and memorial on the Harvard University campus,in Cambridge,Massachusetts.
White Pond is a 58.5 acre lake and reservoir within the towns of Stow and Hudson,in Middlesex County,Massachusetts. The lake has historically provided a source of drinking water to the town of Maynard,and Maynard maintains water rights to the pond and owns some of the land surrounding it. White Pond is adjacent to Lake Boon but their waters are not connected.
