Andover, Massachusetts This article is about the Massachusetts town.
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Andover, Massachusetts Andover's Old Town Hall, positioned in downtown Andover Andover's Old Town Hall, positioned in downtown Andover Official seal of Andover, Massachusetts Location in Essex County and the state of Massachusetts.
Location in Essex County and the state of Massachusetts.
Website The Official Website of Andover, Massachusetts Andover is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States.
Part of the town comprises the census-designated place of Andover.
1.4 Andover in the American Revolutionary War 1.5 Post-Revolution Andover It has been suggested that this section be split out into another article titled History of Andover, Massachusetts.
In 1642, the Massachusetts General Court set aside a portion of territory in what is now Essex County for an inland plantation, including parts of what is now Andover, North Andover and South Lawrence.
The first permanent settlement in the Andover region was established in 1642 by John Woodbridge and a group of pioneer from Newbury and Ipswich.
In May 1646 the settlement was incorporated as a town and was titled Andover.
This name was likely chosen with respect to the town of Andover in England, which was near the initial home of some of the first residents.
The first recorded town meeting was held in 1656 in the home of settler John Osgood in what is now the town of North Andover.
The old burying ground in what is now North Andover marks the center of the early town.
Contrary to prominent belief, the suburbs split due to the locale of the Old North Church, also positioned in what is now North Andover.
The villagers from the southwestern part of the town were tired of walking all the way to the extreme north of what was then Andover and decided to build their own church central to what is now Andover.
Early on the general populace was concentrated together around the Old Center (North Andover) for protection from feared Indian attacks, but the Indians were fairly peaceful until the outbreak of King Philip's War in 1675.
Benjamin Abbott farmhouse, Andover, 1934 During the Salem witch trials in 1692, Andover resident Joseph Ballard asked for help for his wife from a several girls in the neighboring Salem Village who were already identifying witches there.
After visiting Elizabeth Ballard, the girls claimed that a several citizens in Andover had bewitched her: Ann Foster, her daughter Mary Lacey Sr.
During the course of the legal proceedings, more than 40 Andover people, mostly women and their children, were formally accused of having made a covenant with the Devil.
Three Andover residents, Martha Carrier, Mary Parker, and Samuel Wardwell, were convicted and executed.
(daughter of Andover's minister, Francis Dane) in 1692 and Wardwell's wife Sarah and Rev.
By 1705, Andover's populace had begun to move southward and the idea of a new meeting home in the south end of town was proposed.
This was firmly opposed by the citizens living near the initial meeting home in the north, but the dispute was finally settled in 1709 when the Great and General Court divided Andover into two churches, North and South.
After the division of the two churches, South Andover established the South Parish "Burying-Yard," as it was called, with early Andover settler Robert Russell the first to be interred at age 80 in December, 1710. But despite this split, the town remained politically one unit.
For many years Andover was geographically one of the biggest towns in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; in 1826 a third church was established and West Parish Church was constructed on Reservation Road.
The name Andover was assumed by the more crowded and wealthy West and South churches, while the name North Andover was given to the North Parish.
Andover in the American Revolutionary War Records show that on the morning of April 19, 1775, approximately 350 Andover men marched toward Lexington.
Among the Andover men who were delegates to the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1779 1780 were Colonel Samuel Osgood, Zebadiah Abbot, John Farnum and Samuel Phillips, Jr.
Phillips who would later go on to found Phillips Academy was later appointed by John Adams to help draft the Massachusetts state constitution.
During the burning of Charlestown (June 17, 1775) Andover townspeople hiked to the top of Holt Hill to witness it.
Brown was arrested in Andover, Massachusetts but because he could not afford the $4,000 bail, he was taken to Salem for trial.
Memorial Hall Library, which was constructed in 1873 in memory of the 53 Andover men who lost their lives amid the Civil War, was financed through private donations.
The anti-slavery boss had many supporters in Andover long before the American Civil War began.
Her home, known as Stowe House, is now owned by Phillips Academy Andover.
By the time the war ended in 1865, 600 Andover men had served in the Union Army.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 32.1 square miles (83.2 km2), of which 31.0 square miles (80.3 km2) is territory and 1.1 square miles (2.9 km2) (3.49%) is water.
Significant water areas include the Shawsheen River and Haggetts Pond, positioned in west Andover, which serves as the town's reservoir.
Haggetts Pond was originally set apart from other waters, but since the late 1990s has had waters added from the Merrimack River, which constitutes half of the town's northern border, to supplement the burgeoning needs of the town.
Andover is also home to the Harold Parker State Forest, the Charles W.
Andover's town center is positioned approximately four miles south of the center of Lawrence, and is 22 miles (35 km) north of Boston and 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Manchester, New Hampshire.
Andover contains the westernmost point of Essex County, along the Merrimack River.
It is bordered by Lawrence to the north, North Andover to the northeast, North Reading and Wilmington to the south, Tewksbury to the southwest.
Andover also borders Dracut to the northeast; however, the boundary is inside the Merrimack River, and as there are no crossings of the Merrimack inside the boundaries of Dracut, one must go through Methuen or close-by Lowell to enter Dracut, as is the case with Dracut's border with Tewksbury.
Andover is the locale of the intersection of Interstate 93 and Interstate 495.
The town is also served by Route 28, which serves as the chief road from north to south through town, as well as Route 133 and Route 125.
Andover has two stops, Ballardvale and Andover along the Haverhill/Reading Line of the MBTA Commuter Rail, providing rail service from Haverhill to Boston's North Station.
Andover Station is also near the Third Railroad Station, a former Boston and Maine Railroad station which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The nearest small plane service is at Lawrence Municipal Airport in North Andover, and nationwide service can be found at both Logan International Airport and Manchester-Boston Regional Airport, both inside thirty miles of the town.
Several routes of the Merrimack Valley Regional Transit Authority also enter the town, mostly in the north end of town.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 28.8% under the age of 18, 4.7% from 18 to 24, 27.5% from 25 to 44, 26.8% from 45 to 64, and 12.3% who were 65 years of age or older.
Andover had 217 inhabitants who filed as making at least $1 million in 2011, accounting for one millionaire per every 157 citizens . The average income for millionaires in Andover was $2,441,000. Using income and other demographic data, Andover ranked 37 out of 490 in a ranking of wealthiest zipcodes in Massachusetts. The Andover Police Department provides full-time general law enforcement for the town.
The town is also served by Troop A of the Massachusetts State Police.
Andover Fire-Rescue provides full-time fire and emergency medical services for Andover.
The Andover Inn, a New England nation inn on the Phillips ground The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Andover Campus service center, which for many years accepted tax forms from a several neighboring states.
Andover is the site of a large factory owned by Raytheon, the builder of the Patriot Missile Chandler-Bigsby-Abbot House, assembled in 1673, is the earliest home in Andover Andover is home to the second earliest territory preservation society in the country, the Andover Village Improvement Society (AVIS), which controls over 1,100 acres (4.5 km2).
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