Billerica, Massachusetts Billerica, Massachusetts Billerica Public Library Billerica Public Library Official seal of Billerica, Massachusetts Billerica, Massachusetts is positioned in the US Billerica, Massachusetts - Billerica, Massachusetts ZIP code 01821 (Billerica), 01862 (North Billerica) Billerica Listeni/b l r k / is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
Wishing to replace the foreign-sounding Shawshin with a name more familiar, the pioneer chose the name Billerica, likely because some of the families living in the settlement came originally from the town of Billericay in Essex, England.
The town was incorporated as Billerica in 1655, on the same day as neighboring Chelmsford and close-by Groton.
The initial plantation of Billerica was divided up into four towns, Billerica, Bedford, Wilmington, and Tewksbury, sometime amid the colonial era.
Concord River, North Billerica According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 26.4 square miles (68 km2), of which 25.9 square miles (67 km2) are territory and 0.5 square miles (1.3 km2) (1.90%) is water.
Billerica is positioned 20 miles (32 km) north-northwest of Boston along the Northwest Expressway (Massachusetts) portion of U.S.
The town is also situated less than 3 miles from the Massachusetts Route 128/Interstate 95 High-Technology belt to the south and less than 2 miles from the Interstate 495 (Massachusetts) outer belt highway to the north.
Billerica has a several small neighborhoods that form villages (or sections) of town.
Those villages are East Billerica, North Billerica, Nutting Lake, Pinehurst, Rio Vista, River Pines, Riverdale, Riverside, and South Billerica. Billerica borders the following towns: Chelmsford, Lowell, Tewksbury, Wilmington, Burlington, Bedford, and Carlisle.
The border with Lowell is at a point in the middle of the Concord River where Billerica, Chelmsford, Lowell and Tewksbury all meet.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 25.7% under the age of 18, 7.3% from 18 to 24, 34.6% from 25 to 44, 24.0% from 45 to 64, and 8.4% who were 65 years of age or older.
As of the 2010 census, the median income for a homehold in the town was $87,073, and the median income for a family was $95,128.
Billerica Public Schools operate major and secondary schools.
The Billerica enhance school fitness consists of six elementary schools, two middle schools, and one high school. In addition, the town is home to a county-wide technical high school.
Hajjar Elementary School (Rogers & Call Streets; North Billerica) Kennedy Elementary School (Kimbrough Road & Carline Drive; East Billerica) Parker Elementary School (River Street; Billerica Village) Orland S.Marshall Middle School (Floyd Street; Billerica Village) Locke Middle School (Allen & Baldwin Roads; Billerica) Billerica Memorial High School (River Street; Billerica Village) Shawsheen Tech serves Billerica and four of its neighboring towns: Bedford, Burlington, Tewksbury, and Wilmington.
There are no parochial or private schools in the town of Billerica.
In celebrating Sports Illustrated's 50th anniversary, the periodical titled Billerica one of the nation's top fifty suburbs for sports and recreation and the "Sportstown for the Bay State." Altitude Billerica is the first trampoline park in Massachusetts to include a modern climbing wall and a battle beam.
Robert J Calabrese Stadium, opened in 1972, Home of Billerica High's Football and Lacrosse Teams North Billerica MBTA station MBTA Commuter Rail provides service from Boston's North Station with the North Billerica station on its Lowell Line.
The Lowell Regional Transit Authority provides bus service in parts of Billerica.
Route #3 (South Lowell) services the North Billerica MBTA station and the North Billerica Business Center.
Route #13 (Billerica via Edson) services Boston Road (Massachusetts Route 3 - A) from North Billerica to Pinehurst.
Stops along the way include the North Billerica MBTA Station, Pollard Street, High Street, Billerica Center and Town Hall, the Billerica Mall, and Towne Plaza, and a shopping center positioned in Riverdale.
Route #14 (Burlington Mall/Lahey Hospital & Medical Center) services Route 3 - A until Billerica Center, where it continues onto Concord Road and the Middlesex Turnpike.
The Middlesex Canal, which flowed through Billerica between 1795 and 1852, was used to transport goods between Lowell and Boston.
In the 1840s, the Boston and Lowell Railroad's chief line was assembled and passed through the town's villages of North Billerica and East Billerica.
Stations were assembled in both locations and North Billerica Station is still an active station on the MBTA Commuter Rail.
Trains stopped taking passengers at East Billerica in 1965 and the station was remodeled and is now a private home.
Raytheon Company, a primary American defense contractor and industrialized corporation with core manufacturing concentrations in weapons and military and commercial electronics, has two large offices in Billerica, MA. GE Measurement & Control, a $5 billion energy technology unit of General Electric, recently moved its command posts to Billerica, MA Cabot Corporation, a $3.3 billion specialty chemicals and performance materials company, has its major Research and Development facility in Billerica, MA. Avaya Inc, a privately held $8 billion global provider of company communications and collaboration systems, has its New England command posts in Billerica, MA. Pan Am Railways, New England's biggest barns , is headquartered in North Billerica, Massachusetts. Merck Millipore is the life sciences subsidiary of Merck and is headquartered in Billerica.
Pharmalucence, a biotech business which makes drugs for disease diagnosis has its corporate command posts in Billerica.
American Science & Engineering, based in Billerica, "said it received a $6.7 million order for its X-ray detection technology that will be used by the US government for counterterrorism missions." Billerica is governed through a representative town meeting.
The town meeting is the legislative branch of the town and comprises approximately 240 meeting members who are propel from the town's 11 precincts and who vote democratically on town company at a bi-weekly town meeting that has two sessions a year.
The town charter states that "All powers of the town shall be vested in the representative town meeting, except as otherwise provided by law or by the charter." In addition to the town meeting, the town elects a board of five selectmen to serve as the executive head of the town.
These selectmen deal with enforcing town laws, granting town licenses and the setting of town policy and are explicitly forbidden from becoming involved with day-to-day administration.
Alongside the board of selectmen the town elects the following: a school committee which appoints the superindendent and sets enhance school regulations, a town clerk to keep all town records and serve as custodian of the town seal, and a planning board which studies and prepares plans cocerning the resources, possibilities and needs of the town.
The town charter also explicitly spells out the formation of a Department of Public Works to manage all utility services in the town.
Billerica is a part of Massachusetts's 6th congressional district. Billerica Town Common District Billerica is a sister town/city of Billericay, England, United Kingdom United Kingdom.
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