Bedford, Massachusetts Bedford, Massachusetts Bedford Depot Flag of Bedford, Massachusetts Flag Official seal of Bedford, Massachusetts Bedford is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
The populace of Bedford was 13,320 at the 2010 census.
1.1 Huckins Farm and Job Lane House 2.1 The Bedford Flag The following compilation comes from Ellen Abrams (1999) based on knowledge from Abram English Brown's History of the Town of Bedford (1891), as well as other sources such as The Bedford Sampler Bicentennial Edition including Daisy Pickman Oakley's articles, Bedford Vital Records, New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Town Directories, and other publications from the Bedford Historical Society.
The territory now inside the boundaries of Bedford was first settled by Europeans around 1640.
In 1729 it was incorporated from a portion of Concord (about 3/5 of Bedford) and a portion of Billerica (about 2/5 of Bedford).
In 1637, the General Court of Massachusetts granted some 2,200 acres (9 km ) of land, including Huckins Farm territory to the first governor, John Winthrop, and to Deputy Governor Thomas Dudley.
The following year, the two men agreed to divide the territory so that the parcel south of the two large boulders by the Concord River (Brothers Rocks) belonged to Governor Winthrop and north of the Rocks was to belong to Deputy Governor Dudley.
Governor Winthrop's grandson, Fitz John Winthrop, in 1664, sold 1,200 acres (5 km ) of this territory (including what is present-day Huckins Farm) to Job Lane (1), a skilled artisan and home builder, in exchange for a home that Lane assembled for him in Connecticut.
(Note: The numbers appended to the names of Lane family members indicate the generation number beginning with Job Lane (1), who immigrated from Mill End, Rickmansworth, England.) Upon his death, he passed all of this territory to his son, John Lane (2), who left it to his three sons, John Lane (3), Job Lane (3), and James Lane (3).
A direct descendant of both Winthrop and Dudley, Pickman bought the territory without knowledge of the Winthrop-Dudley grant. He identified later that he had purchased his ancestors' lands.
Today's Dudley Road and Winthrop Avenue in Bedford, as well as Pickman Drive, are titled for these families.
Bedford Flag - First Battle Flag (1775) The Bedford flag on display at the Bedford Free Public Library is the earliest known surviving endured battle flag in the United States.
Winthrop claimed the territory to one side of one rock; Dudley claimed the territory on the other side of the other rock.
Fish and Wildlife service, and the Bedford Historic Preservation Commission.
This traditional saltbox-style home at 295 North Road dates back to the early 18th century and was assembled by Job Lane (3), the grandson of one of Bedford's earliest settlers, Job Lane (1), a master carpenter.
Early on the morning of April 19, 1775, an alarm sounded warning the citizens of Bedford that British soldiers were marching from Boston to Concord.
The Fitch Tavern is positioned in Bedford center, a little over a mile from Huckins Farm.
A 1972 "Bedford Landmark Tour" says, "Site of the Wilson mills dating from about 1685; mills, dam, and pond passed from the Wilson family about 1770 to Oliver Bacon, then bought by Jonas Gleason (1782) and by Simeon Blodgett (1816); through the years, the site was directed as a grist mill, a saw mill, and later a cider mill." According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 13.9 square miles (36 km2), of which 13.7 square miles (35 km2) is territory and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2), or 0.94%, is water.
Bedford is a mostly circular town.
In addition to the Concord River which forms part of the town's borders, the Shawsheen River flows through town.
Vine Brook flows from Lexington, Massachusetts, through Burlington, Massachusetts, and into the Shawsheen in Bedford.
Source: United States Enumeration records and Population Estimates Program data. In the town, the populace was spread out with 23.6% under the age of 18, 3.9% from 18 to 24, 27.8% from 25 to 44, 26.3% from 45 to 64, and 18.3% who were 65 years of age or older.
Bedford was the home of a Consolidated Mail Outpatient Pharmacy (CMOP).
It has moved to the Lowell region as a result of the Veterans Administrations Cares Mission and is no longer in Bedford.
As part of the Middlesex 21st District, Bedford is represented by Ken Gordon in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
Bedford Public Schools operate Bedford's enhance school system.
Job Lane Elementary (3 5), John Glenn Middle School (6 8), and Bedford High School (9 12).
Some students from Hanscom Air Force Base, which is partially positioned in Bedford, join Bedford inhabitants at Bedford High for 9th undertaking and beyond.
There is a METCO program, where students from Boston come to the Bedford schools, starting in kindergarten and staying with the class until graduation.
Bedford is also part of the school precinct of Shawsheen Valley Technical High School which is in close-by Billerica.
The former Center School was deactivated in the 1970s, and is today the Town Center and Recreation Department Nathaniel Page School was similarly deactivated in about 1982 and today is a condominium community.
John Glenn Middle School (originally called Bedford Junior High School) is titled for John Glenn, formerly the Superintendent of Schools in Bedford, not for the U.S.
The Davis and Lane (and former Page) schools are titled for small-town officers who took part in the Battle of Concord on April 19, 1775.
Bedford is slightly northwest of the intersection of I-95 (also known as MA-128) and MA-4/MA-225 (which cross in Lexington).
The MBTA operates the Route 351 express bus service, from Alewife; the bus terminates at Oak Park Drive, Bedford Woods, and EMD Serono; this service operates only on the morning and evening weekday rush hour times, and joins to the Red Line at Alewife.
Bedford is also served by Hanscom Field (IATA: BED, ICAO: KBED), a civilian airport, adjoining to Hanscom Air Force Base.
Other historic transit systems through Bedford encompassed the narrow-gauge Billerica and Bedford Railroad and the Middlesex Turnpike.
Madeleine Altmann, video artist, Director of Bedford TV History of the Town of Bedford, Middlesex County, Abram English Brown, presented by the author, Bedford, 1891 "Bedford, Massachusetts (U.S.)".
Excerpt from a copy of "Bedford landmark Tour, presented by Bedford Historical Society, written by the society's president John Abbott, 1972.
"TOTAL POPULATION (P1), 2010 Enumeration Summary File 1".
"Massachusetts by Place and County Subdivision - GCT-T1.
"1990 Enumeration of Population, General Population Characteristics: Massachusetts" (PDF).
"1980 Enumeration of the Population, Number of Inhabitants: Massachusetts" (PDF).
"1950 Enumeration of Population" (PDF).
"1920 Enumeration of Population" (PDF).
"1890 Enumeration of the Population" (PDF).
"1870 Enumeration of the Population" (PDF).
"Enumeration 2000 Demographic Profile Highlights for Bedford, MA".
"Will Bedford man turn into next VP?".
Section on Bedford in Volume 2 page 241 by Josiah A.
History of the Town of Bedford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, by Abram English Brown, presented 1891, 158 pages.
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