Bridgewater, Massachusetts For geographic and demographic knowledge on the census-designated place Bridgewater, please see the article Bridgewater (CDP), Massachusetts.
Bridgewater, Massachusetts Town of Bridgewater Bridgewater Town Hall Bridgewater Town Hall Flag of Bridgewater, Massachusetts Flag Official seal of Bridgewater, Massachusetts Bridgewater, Massachusetts is positioned in the US Bridgewater, Massachusetts - Bridgewater, Massachusetts Bridgewater is a town positioned in Plymouth County, in the state of Massachusetts, United States.
Census, the town's populace was 26,563.
Bridgewater is positioned approximately 25 miles (40 km) south of Boston and approximately 35 miles east of Providence, Rhode Island. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 28.2 square miles (73 km2), of which 27.5 square miles (71 km2) is territory and 0.7 square miles (1.8 km2) (2.62%) is water.
Bridgewater is 99th out of the 351 communities in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and eighth out of the twenty-seven municipalities in Plymouth County in terms of territory area.
The town is bordered by West Bridgewater to the northwest, East Bridgewater to the northeast, Halifax to the east, Middleborough to the south, and Raynham to the west.
Bridgewater is approximately 5 miles south of Brockton, 10 miles northeast of Taunton, and 25 miles south of Boston, of which it is a suburb.
Neighborhoods in Bridgewater include Stanley, Scotland Park, Pratt Town, Paper Mill Village, and South Bridgewater.
There is a state forest, a town forest, a several conservation areas and a large portion of the Hockomock Swamp Wildlife Management Area, in the part of town.
Source: United States Enumeration records and Population Estimates Program data. In the town, the populace was spread out with 22.9% under the age of 18, 14.7% from 18 to 24, 32.9% from 25 to 44, 20.9% from 45 to 64, and 8.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
Statistically, Bridgewater is the 71st biggest town in the Commonwealth by population, and 110th by populace density.
In the county, Bridgewater rates third in populace and seventh in density.
In the late 1960s, the economy of Bridgewater was dependent upon the Old Colony Correctional Center and other Massachusetts Correctional Institutions of the MCD in Bridgewater, Bridgewater State Hospital and the Bridgewater Teacher's College (now the Bridgewater State University).
Donald Cabana, who served as a prison guard at the Bridgewater prison and later became the superintendent of the Mississippi State Penitentiary, said that "the improve promoted the fact that it was home to the United States's first "normal school" (teachers' college), while the prison was "often mentioned in less glowing terms".
Also, for most of the 1800s and beginning of the 1900s, Bridgewater's economy was largely dependent on the factories positioned inside the town.
One of which is appropriately titled Bridgewater Iron Works, and is a registered historical site in Massachusetts.
Bridgewater was formerly governed on the small-town level by the open town meeting form of government, led by a Board of Selectmen until January 2011.
Bridgewater is now led by seven Precinct Councilors, 1 per precinct, and two "at-large councilors", with an appointed Town Manager, Assessor, Tax Collector, for a total of nine Councilors. Bridgewater is one of fourteen Massachusetts municipalities that have applied for, and been granted, town/city forms of government but wish to retain "The town of" in their official names. This is from the majority 'Yes' vote on Question #1 at the April 24, 2010 annual town election, to change from a five-person, propel Board of Selectmen to a nine-person, propel Town Council, and thus abolishing the Annual Town Meeting, which was held in 2010 after generations. Town facilities are positioned at the center of town, with the Police Department command posts being just west of the Square along Mass.
There are two fire departments in town, one next to the College and the other in the easterly part of town, directly behind the Town Hall.
Post Office branch, positioned just north of the town center along Mass.
The town's Bridgewater Public Library is just north of the town center, and is a part of the Southeastern Area Internet Library Services ("SAILS") network. On the Commonwealth level, Bridgewater is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives of the General Court of Massachusetts as a portion of the Eighth Plymouth District, which includes Raynham and a small portion of Easton.
In the Massachusetts Senate, the Town is a part of the First Plymouth and Bristol District, which also includes Berkley, Carver, Dighton, Marion, Middleborough, Raynham, Taunton and Wareham. The Town is also patrolled by the Fourth (Middleborough) Barracks of Troop 'D' of the Massachusetts State Police. The Massachusetts Department of Correction operates a several correctional facilities in the Bridgewater Correctional Complex in Bridgewater. The prisons in the complex include Bridgewater State Hospital, Massachusetts Alcohol and Substance Abuse Center, Massachusetts Treatment Center, and Old Colony Correctional Center. On the nationwide level, Bridgewater is a part of Massachusetts's 8th congressional district, which has been represented in the United States House of Representatives since 2001 by Stephen Lynch, a Democrat.
Senator John Kerry as United States Secretary of State in 2013. The junior Senator is Ed Markey, first propel in the 2013 special election to fill Ted Kennedy's seat.
The Town also has a Massachusetts National Guard armory along Mass.
Boyden Hall, on the Bridgewater State University ground Bridgewater shares its school precinct with neighboring Raynham, with both suburbs operating their own elementary and middle schools, and sending their students to a common high school.
Mitchell Elementary School (south and west of the town center - formerly known as Bridgewater Elementary), which serves students from kindergarten through undertaking three.
Williams Intermediate School, while seventh and eighth graders attend Bridgewater Middle School.
The Bridgewater-Raynham Regional High School is positioned in Bridgewater, west of the town center.
Bridgewater was formerly home to two private schools which served students from preschool (Joyful Learning) and kindergarten through sixth undertaking (Southbrook Academy) until their closings after the 2012-2013 school year.
Bridgewater was formerly the site of the well-known, influential Bridgewater Academy, a private high school formerly positioned on the "Town Common" (park).
The town is also home to Bridgewater State University, a enhance liberal arts college that was established as a "normal school" (now teachers' school) in 1840.
It is the biggest of the state's nine state universities outside of the University of Massachusetts fitness itself.
Route 106 passes along the town line in the northeast of town; Mass.
Route 104 's easterly end is at that route, just along the East Bridgewater line.
The Middleborough-Lakeville line of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) commuter rail passes through the Town, with a stop at the southern end of Bridgewater State University's campus.
George Leonard Andrews, (1828 1899), born in Bridgewater, noted United States Army officer, engineer, and educator Love Brewster, a passenger on the Mayflower and a founder of the town of Bridgewater Comment, Bridgewater State University student journal WBIM-FM 91.5, Bridgewater State University airways broadcast "Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Bridgewater town, Massachusetts".
"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).
"Bridgewater holds its last Town Meeting with a nod to its first".
"Bridgewater Public Library".
"Bridgewater State Hospital." The Bridgewater Independent Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bridgewater, Massachusetts.
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