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Middleborough
is a town in
Plymouth County
,
Massachusetts
, United States. The population was 23,116 at the
2010 census
.
[2]
For geographic and demographic information on the village of Middleborough Center, please see the article
Middleborough Center, Massachusetts
.
Middleborough is frequently written as
Middleboro
.
In the summer of 2007, Middleborough became the proposed location for a controversial future resort
casino
,
[3]
sponsored by the
Wampanoag
Tribe of
Mashpee, Massachusetts
.
[4]
History
[
edit
]
The town was first settled by
Europeans
in 1661 as Nemasket, later changed to Middlebury, and officially incorporated as Middleborough in 1669. The name Nemasket came from a
Native American
settlement along the small river that now bears the same name.
Nemasket
may have meant "place of fish", due to the large amount of
herring
that migrate up the river each spring. There are no contemporary records that indicate the name Middlebury was taken from a place in England, and changed to the more modern Middleborough. The names Middlebury and Middleborough were actually derived from the city of
Middelburg
,
Zeeland
, the westernmost province of the Netherlands. Middelburg was an international intellectual center and economic powerhouse. The English religious dissenters called the
Brownists
developed their governance institutions in Middelburg before emigrating on the Mayflower, and were the earliest settlers of Middleborough where their town and church governance ethics were continued.
During
King Philip's War
(1675–76), the town's entire populace took shelter within the confines of a fort constructed along the
Nemasket River
. The site is located behind the old junior high school (now a
kindergarten
), and is marked by a state historical commission marker along
Route 105
. Before long, the fort was abandoned and the population withdrew to the greater shelter of the
Plymouth Colony
; in their absence, the entire village was burned to the ground, and it would be several years before the town would be refounded. Western Middleborough broke away in 1853 and formed the town of
Lakeville
, taking with it the main access to the large freshwater lakes there, including
Assawompset Pond
.
Middleborough was once a large producer of shoes and is still home to the
Alden Shoe Company
, one of the last remaining shoe manufacturers in America.
[5]
Middleborough has since become the
cranberry
capital of the world, hosting the corporate headquarters of
Ocean Spray
Cranberries. Notable sights include the 1870s
Victorian
-style town hall, the Beaux Art style town library (1903), and in the spring, the Nemasket River alewife and blueback herring run upstream to the Assawompset Ponds complex to spawn.
In recent history, Middleborough has made its mark through the prowess of its
Little League Baseball
program. In 1994 the Middleborough All Stars reached the
Little League World Series
by defeating Milburn-Short Hills, New Jersey to take the East Region title. The team would finish 3rd in the United States. They are one of only two Massachusetts Little League teams to win the East title (Andover Little League, 1988) before the splitting of the New England and Mid-Atlantic Regions in 2001. In 1999, the team again won the Massachusetts State title and fell in the East Region final to Toms River, New Jersey - the eventual U.S. runner-up.
Since 2000, the team has reached the State semi-finals five times, finishing third in the state in 2000 and 2003, and second in 2002 and 2008. In 2012, they finished fourth in the state. The 2012 team was coached by Skeeter Porter and Ron Holmgren. The 2002 team was only beaten by U.S. runner-up, Jesse Burkett Little League of
Worcester
.
Geography
[
edit
]
According to the
United States Census Bureau
, the town has a total area of 72.2 square miles (186.9 km
2
), of which 69.1 square miles (178.9 km
2
) is land and 3.1 square miles (8.0 km
2
), or 4.27%, is water.
[6]
Middleborough is the second largest municipality in Massachusetts in terms of area, smaller only than
Plymouth
.
Middleborough lies on the western border of Plymouth County. It is bordered by
Bridgewater
and
Halifax
to the north,
Plympton
and
Carver
to the east,
Wareham
and
Rochester
to the south, and
Lakeville
,
Taunton
and
Raynham
to the west. Despite its name, Middleborough is not located anywhere near the other 11 "-boroughs" in the state, lying south and east of all of them. The town is approximately 15 miles (24 km) west of Plymouth, 30 miles (48 km) east of
Providence, Rhode Island
and 40 miles (64 km) south of
Boston
.
Middleborough's rivers and brooks feed in two directions. The
Taunton River
,
Nemasket River
and their tributaries flow southeastward as part of the
Taunton River Watershed
, which empties into
Narragansett Bay
. The other waterways of the town, including the
Weweantic River
, flow southward into
Buzzards Bay
. Along Middleborough's border with Lakeville lie the
Assawompset
,
Pocksha
and
Great Quittacas
ponds.
Tispaquin Pond
, Woods Pond, and several other ponds make up the town's other bodies of water. Middleborough has four wildlife management areas, as well as the Beaver Dam, Great Cedar and Little Cedar Swamps, the swamps being located in the north of town. The town is also the site of several cranberry bogs, especially in the southeastern part of town along the Carver town line.
Ocean Spray's
headquarters are just over the town line in Lakeville.
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