These towns, some along main corridors, some connected by roads following old Indian trails that seem to wind endlessly through the woods and past one stately home after another, are generally preserved as much as possible in their original form.
Each neighborhood has its own little town center, clean, functional, accessible, and dominated by local businesses. There are some areas of more modern retail and restaurants, but these are generally kept to a minimum and are compelled to conform visually with the surroundings. The result: housing is expensive, but it is a good value. Downtown is a world class financial center, employing tens of thousands. The city has two beltways. The tradition persists today, although the industry now centers on biotech and emerging technologies.
The employment picture in recent years has been mixed, partly due to rollover in startup firms and to high business costs. The latter seems to affect businesses such as textiles and shipbuilding the hardest. There are still several industrial areas, but industry and manufacturing do not define the future.
Businesses with a stronger research and development component are more likely to prosper. Commutes to these areas generally require a car, and traffic and long commutes are a concern.
The Boston-Quincy metro area starts downtown, where living accommodations are either expensive high-rises or the posh historical gem of Beacon Hill just west of the main downtown business district.
Older, more working class neighborhoods lie south in Quincy, Braintree, and Dedham, mixed in with commercial areas. From there, living choices lie primarily along three corridors.
The I corridor, farthest west and south of the inner beltway, is the fastest growing area, especially out towards Foxboro and beyond. Excellent family communities can be found in and around Westwood, Sharon, and Attleboro. The State Route 24 corridor to the east is more commercial but also has good residential areas: Randolph, Avon and the old mill town of Brockton.
Finally, areas south and west of State Route 3 offer excellent housing and good values — the Hanovers and the Pembrokes are classic with lots of small lakes adding to the scenery. Proximity to the Atlantic Ocean also brings somewhat cooler summer evenings. Education, at all levels, is excellent in the Boston area.
Area public schools are nationally recognized; people move to the area just for the schools. Boston has the largest number of highly ranked universities in the country. It is hard to draw a single bottom line on the Boston area. Its positives — education, arts, entertainment, historic interest, housing — are unquestionably among the tops in the US. For those able to deal with these shortcomings, it is hard to do better.
It is relatively level with land rising in all directions. Terrain becomes rolling to hilly to the west and north relatively more level with numerous small lakes south. Most areas are covered with dense, deciduous forest.
The climate is complex. Storm tracks, latitude, and the coastal location work together to guarantee changing weather patterns and significant precipitation. Hot summer afternoons are frequently relieved by locally celebrated sea breezes, particularly close to shore.
This is a historical and genealogical guide to the town of Marshfield. You will find help with town histories, vital records, city directories, cemetery records and cemeteries, churches, town records, newspapers, maps, and libraries. Marshfield was an outgrowth of the settlement at Plymouth. By , precincts were formed and this area was granted at Green's Harbor as Rexhame.
The precinct soon became a town in This area was Plymouth Colony Genealogy in the beginning. The town was placed in Plymouth County when counties were formed in For a brief time, the town was part of the Dominion of New England Genealogy from to The town is still in Plymouth County , though was in limbo, until the "Colony" was merged with Massachusetts Bay Colony Genealogy in that became the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The basic data is from the "Historical Data" publication series [1] with additions from various sources.
The Library of Congress Washington, D. They are likely to own most of the years listed above. Their collection is in microfiche, microfilm, and books, but there is no online inventory of their holdings except for microfilm.
Health care Construction Other sales and related occupations, including supervisors 6. Other sales and related occupations, including supervisors 9. Secretaries and administrative assistants 9. Air pollution and air quality trends lower is better. City: City: 0. City: 8. City: 1. City: 7. Average household size: This place: 2.
Percentage of family households: This place: Percentage of households with unmarried partners: This place: 5. Education Gini index Inequality in education Here: 8. Number of grocery stores : 85 Plymouth County : 1. State : 1. Number of supercenters and club stores : 2 This county : 0. Massachusetts : 0. Number of convenience stores no gas : Plymouth County : 2. Massachusetts : 2. Number of convenience stores with gas : This county : 2.
Number of full-service restaurants : Here : 7. Massachusetts : 8. Adult diabetes rate : Plymouth County : 7. Adult obesity rate : This county : Low-income preschool obesity rate : Plymouth County : Healthy diet rate : Marshfield: Average overall health of teeth and gums : Here: Average BMI : Here: People feeling badly about themselves : This city: Average hours sleeping at night : This city: 6. Overweight people : This city: General health condition : This city: Average condition of hearing : Here: Here: 5.
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