词条 | Wilmington, Massachusetts |
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| official_name = Wilmington, Massachusetts | nickname = | motto = | image_skyline = Church Street, Wilmington MA.jpg | imagesize = 250px | image_caption = Church Street | image_seal = WilmingtonMA-seal.png | image_flag = | image_map = Wilmington_ma_highlight.png | mapsize = 250px | map_caption = Location in Middlesex County in Massachusetts | image_map1 = | mapsize1 = | map_caption1 = | | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = United States | subdivision_type1 = State | subdivision_name1 = Massachusetts | subdivision_type2 = County | subdivision_name2 = Middlesex | established_title = Settled | established_date = 1665 | established_title2 = Incorporated | established_date2 = 1730 | established_title3 = | established_date3 = | government_type = Open town meeting | leader_title = Town {{nbsp|3}}Manager | leader_name = Jeffrey M. Hull | leader_title1 = | leader_name1 = | area_magnitude = | area_total_km2 = 44.6 | area_total_sq_mi = 17.2 | area_land_km2 = 44.4 | area_land_sq_mi = 17.1 | area_water_km2 = 0.2 | area_water_sq_mi = 0.1 | population_as_of = 2010 | settlement_type = Town | population_total = 22325 | population_density_km2 = auto | population_density_sq_mi = | elevation_m = 29 | elevation_ft = 96 | timezone = Eastern | utc_offset = −5 | timezone_DST = Eastern | utc_offset_DST = −4 | coordinates = {{coord|42|33|N|71|10|W|region:US-MA|display=inline,title}} | website = www.town.wilmington.ma.us | postal_code_type = ZIP Code | postal_code = 01887 | area_code = 978 | blank_name = FIPS code | blank_info = 25-80230 | blank1_name = GNIS feature ID | blank1_info = 0618246 | footnotes = }} Wilmington is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. HistoryWilmington was first settled in 1665 and was officially incorporated in 1730, from parts of Woburn, Reading, and Billerica. The first settler is believed to have been Will Butter, Richard Harnden or Abraham Jaquith. Butter was brought to Woburn as an indentured captive. Once he attained his freedom, he fled to the opposite side of a large swamp, in what is now Wilmington. Harnden settled in Reading, in an area that is now part of Wilmington. Jaquith settled in an area of Billerica that became part of Wilmington in 1740. Minutemen from Wilmington responded to the alarm on April 19, 1775 and fought at Merriam's Corner in Concord. The Middlesex Canal passed through Wilmington. Chartered in 1792, opened in 1803, it provided freight and passenger transport between the Merrimack River and Boston. One important cargo on the canal was hops. From the middle of the 18th century until the early 19th century, Massachusetts was the acknowledged leader in hop production in North America. Middlesex County in particular was famous for its hop yards, and Wilmington was the first place where the culture grew to a fever pitch.[1] When Lowell was built in the 1820s, the canal became a primary means of transporting cotton to and from the mills. It was abandoned in 1852 after the construction of the Boston and Lowell Railroad. The Boston and Lowell Railroad was built in 1835. The line is now the oldest operating rail line in the U.S. Wilmington is also served by the Haverhill Division (the old B&M Portland Division). A spur track known as the Wildcat connects the Haverhill and Lowell divisions, following the path of the old Wilmington & Andover Railroad, the corporate ancestor of the Boston & Maine. Wilmington is where the Baldwin apple was discovered. Wilmington is also home to the Col. Joshua Harnden Tavern, which probably served as a stop on the underground railroad and now houses the Wilmington Town Museum. Since World War II, Wilmington's population has quadrupled. Interstate 93, Route 62, Route 129 and Route 38 run through town, and Route 128 is about a mile south of Wilmington. GeographyWilmington is located at {{Coord|42|33|N|71|10|W|type:city}} (42.560, −71.170).[2] According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of {{convert|17.2|sqmi|km2}}, of which {{convert|17.1|sqmi|km2}} is land and {{convert|0.1|sqmi|km2}}, or 0.46%, is water. Wilmington borders the towns of Andover, North Reading, Reading, Woburn, Burlington, Billerica, and Tewksbury. Much of Wilmington was built on or still is wetlands. The Ipswich River starts in Wilmington, and the Shawsheen River forms part of Wilmington's border with Billerica. There is one lake in the town, Silver Lake, a kettle lake formed in the retreat of the Pleistocene glaciers at the end of the last ice age.[3] It is open for swimming during the summer. Demographics{{See also|List of Massachusetts locations by per capita income}}{{Historical populations | type=USA| 1850|874 | 1860|919 | 1870|866 | 1880|933 | 1890|1213 | 1900|1596 | 1910|1858 | 1920|2581 | 1930|4013 | 1940|4645 | 1950|7039 | 1960|12475 | 1970|17102 | 1980|17471 | 1990|17651 | 2000|21363 | 2010|22325 | footnote=* = population estimate. {{Historical populations/Massachusetts municipalities references}} }} The Census Bureau has defined Wilmington as a census-designated place that is equivalent to the town As of the census[4] of 2000, there were 21,363 people, 7,027 households, and 5,776 families residing in the town. The population density was {{convert|1247.0|PD/sqmi|/km2}}. There were 7,158 housing units at an average density of {{convert|417.8|/sqmi|/km2}}. The racial makeup of the town was 96.31% White, 0.41% Black or African American, 0.08% Native American, 2.03% Asian, 0.42% from other races, and 0.74% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.95% of the population. There were 7,027 households out of which 41.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 69.6% were married couples living together, 9.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 17.8% were non-families. 14.0% of all households were made up of individuals and 5.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.00 and the average family size was 3.33. In the town, the population was spread out with 27.6% under the age of 18, 5.9% from 18 to 24, 33.5% from 25 to 44, 22.2% from 45 to 64, and 10.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females, there were 98.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.1 males. The median income for a household in the town was $70,652, and the median income for a family was $76,760. Males had a median income of $50,446 versus $36,729 for females. The per capita income for the town was $25,835. About 1.8% of families and 1.9% of the population were below the poverty line, including 1.7% of those under age 18 and 2.7% of those age 65 or over. It is the 181st richest place in Massachusetts. See Massachusetts locations by per capita income. EducationWilmington has its own schools. Kindergarten students attend the Wildwood Street and Boutwell Street Schools. Grades 1-3 attend the Woburn Street School and the Shawsheen School. Grades 4 and 5 attend the North Intermediate School and the West Intermediate School. Grades 6-8 attend Wilmington Middle School. High School Students attend Wilmington High School. Wilmington High's mascot is the wildcat and its athletic teams participate in the Middlesex League. The Wildcats' colors are Navy Blue, Columbia Blue and White and the primary rivals are the Tewksbury Redmen of the Merrimack Valley Conference. The rivalry reaches its highest point every Thanksgiving when the two towns square off in a football game. In the 2007 season, Wilmington lost to Tewksbury for the first time since 2002 and still trails in the overall series history that started with two games in 1935. The series has never been disrupted although they did not play on Thanksgiving in 1935 or from 1941 to 1956. In those years, their game was played on November 11. Wilmington is also home to Abundant Life Christian School a Pre-K to 8 private religious school. Wilmington students also have the option of attending Shawsheen Technical High School. GovernmentWilmington has an open town meeting, a board of selectmen and a town manager. The current town manager is Jeffrey Hull. Five of the town's six districts are represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives by Jim Miceli until his death in 2018, the last is represented by Ken Gordon. The town's state senator is Bruce Tarr. Wilmington is in the Massachusetts 6th Congressional District and is represented in the United States House of Representatives by Seth Moulton. Points of interest{{Expand list|date=August 2008}}
TransportationMBTA Commuter Rail provides service from Boston's North Stationwith the Wilmington station on its Lowell Line and the North Wilmington station on its Haverhill/Reading Line. LRTA provides bus service from Wilmington station via Rt 38 to Lowell Station. Notable residents
References1. ^Tomlan, Michael, "Tinged with Gold: Hop Culture in the U.S." Univ. of Georgia, 1992. 2. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/gazette.html|publisher=United States Census Bureau|accessdate=2011-04-23|date=2011-02-12|title=US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990}} 3. ^Crosby, Irving B., 1928, Boston through the Ages: The Geological Story of Greater Boston, Marshall Jones Company, Boston, Massachusetts 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://factfinder2.census.gov|publisher=United States Census Bureau|accessdate=2008-01-31|title=American FactFinder}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.lakeplacidnews.com/page/content.detail/id/500660.html?nav=5001|title=BARBARA KELLY: A person you should know: Jeanne Ashworth |publisher=LakePlacidNews.com |date=2008-11-13|accessdate=2010-02-17}} 6. ^[https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/04/books/david-g-hartwell-editor-who-specialized-in-science-fiction-dies-at-74.html David G. Hartwell, Literary-Minded Editor of Science Fiction, Dies at 74] at New York Times 7. ^https://archive.org/details/uranographyatlas00kend 8. ^Sheldon, Asa, forward by John Seelye, Yankee Drover, Being the Unpretending Life of Asa Sheldon, Farmer, Trader, and Working Man 1788–1870, originally published as Life of Asa G. Sheldon: Wilmington Farmer, in Two Arrangements, 1862, E. T. Moody, Woburn, Massachusetts, new edition 1988, University Press of New England, Hanover, NH. 9. ^Rev. Samuel Sewall's 1868 biography of Thompson External links{{Commons category}}{{wikivoyage|Wilmington (Massachusetts)}}
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