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Massachusetts has been significant throughout American history. Colonists from England founded many towns and villages in the present-day territory of Massachusetts very early in the nation's history in the 1620s and 1630s. The Boston area became known as the 'Cradle of Liberty' for the ferment there which led to the American Revolution and the independence of the United States from Great Britain.

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During the late eighteenth century Boston was the location of several major events during the American Revolution, including the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party. Several early battles of the American Revolution, such as the Battle of Bunker Hill and the Siege of Boston, occurred within the city and surrounding areas ...

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Cambridge was established in 1630 as the town of Newe Towne. Located at the first convenient Charles River crossing west of Boston, Newetowne was one of a number of towns founded by the 700 original Puritan colonists of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The original village site is in the heart of today's Harvard Square ...

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Although the Cape was originally connected to the mainland, the Cape Cod Canal, which opened in 1914, technically transformed Cape Cod into a large island. Three bridges span the canal from the Massachusetts mainland to the Cape; the Sagamore Bridge and the Bourne Bridge or the Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge ...

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Founded as a planned manufacturing center for textiles along the Merrimack River northwest of Boston on land sectioned from neighboring Chelmsford, it was a thriving industrial center during the 19th century, attracting many immigrants and migrant workers to its mills ...

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Historically the first Springfield in the United States, it is also the largest city on the Connecticut River (and the largest city in Western Massachusetts and the Pioneer Valley). Springfield is notable as birthplace of Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, as well as the city in which James Naismith invented basketball ...

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Known for innovation in commerce, industry, education, and social thought, Worcester and the nearby Blackstone Valley claim their historic role as the birthplace of the American Industrial Revolution. Ichabod Washburn, an early industrialist, developed a process for extruding steel wire ...

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Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States ...