Chelsea, Massachusetts Chelsea, Massachusetts The Tobin Bridge, linking Chelsea and Boston The Tobin Bridge, linking Chelsea and Boston Official seal of Chelsea, Massachusetts Chelsea, Massachusetts is positioned in the US Chelsea, Massachusetts - Chelsea, Massachusetts Chelsea is a town/city in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States, directly athwart the Mystic River from the town/city of Boston.
As of 2013, Chelsea had an estimated populace of 36,828. It is also the second most densely populated town/city in Massachusetts behind Somerville.
With a total region of just 2.5 square miles, Chelsea is the smallest town/city in Massachusetts in terms of total area. Chelsea is a diverse , working-class improve that contains a high level of industrialized activity.
Thanks to its relative affordability and close adjacency to Boston, Chelsea has added more than 1,200 homes since 2005, mostly loft-style apartements and condominiums suitable for small families or young professionals.
The region of Chelsea was first called Winnisimmet (meaning "good spring nearby") by the Massachusett tribe, which once lived there.
The improve remained part of Boston until it was set off and incorporated in 1739, when it was titled after Chelsea, a neighborhood in London, England.
In 1775, the Battle of Chelsea Creek was fought in the area, the second battle of the Revolution, at which American forces made one of their first captures of a British ship.
Part of George Washington's army was stationed in Chelsea amid the Siege of Boston.
On February 22, 1841, part of Chelsea was took in by Saugus, Massachusetts.
On March 19, 1846, North Chelsea, which consists of present-day Revere and Winthrop was established as a separate town. Reincorporated as a town/city in 1857, Chelsea advanced as an industrialized center and by mid-century had turn into a powerhouse in wooden sailing ship construction.
It became home to the Chelsea Naval Hospital designed by Alexander Parris and home for soldiers. According to small-town historical records, Nathan Morse, the first Jewish resident of Chelsea, appeared in 1864, and by 1890 there were only 82 Jews living in the city.
However, Chelsea was a primary destination for the "great wave" of Russian and Eastern European immigrants, especially Russian Jews, who came to the United States after 1890.
In the 1930s there were about 20,000 Jewish inhabitants in Chelsea out of a total populace of almost 46,000.
Given the region of the city, Chelsea may well have had the most Jews per square mile of any town/city outside of New York City. Chelsea Square after Great Fire of 1908 On April 12, 1908, nearly half the town/city was finished in the first of two great fires that would devastate Chelsea in the 20th century.
Many of the city's inhabitants left and never returned, which opened the door for many immigrants living in Boston to "move up" to Chelsea.
To immigrants living in crowded apartements in Boston's West End, East and South Ends, Chelsea was the next stop on their path of economic upward mobility. By 1919 Chelsea's populace had reached the record level of 52,662, with foreign-born inhabitants comprising 46 percent of the population.
After World War II, Chelsea began a long, slow decline; between 1940 and 1980, the populace declined by 38 percent.
Chelsea, however, lost more populace than other urban areas after the 1950s because of the elevated expressway assembled to connect the North Shore to Boston, via the Mystic River Bridge (later retitled for Boston Mayor Maurice J.
In 1973, disaster hit again when the Second Great Chelsea Fire burned 18 town/city blocks, leaving nearly a fifth of the town/city in ashes.
Both fires originated in Chelsea's "rag shop district," cluttered streets filled with junk shops hawking scraps, metal, and combustible items.
By the early 1990s, Chelsea was both the poorest and most dangerous town/city in Massachusetts.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts enacted special legislation to place Chelsea into receivership.
City Hall was eviscerated, the police and fire departments reorganized, management of the enhance schools given to Boston University, and indictments handed down.
By the summer of 1995, when the state returned City Hall to the citizens of Chelsea, a new government had been born, brought to live by a panel of people charged with drafting a new town/city charter.
The new charter eliminated the position of mayor, converting management of the town/city from a strong mayor to a council manager government system, where a strong town/city manager is chose by City Council members.
With their leaders more accountable and efficient, Chelsea reversed its long diminish and entered a reconstructionof populace growth and economic development.
In 1998, the City Council's concentrated efforts earned Chelsea the distinct ion of being titled one of 10 All-America City Award winners by the National Civic League in recognition of its grass-roots approach to solving problems.
The town/city weathered a recession in the early 2000s and emerged with its finances intact, prompting Chelsea's bond rating to improve.
Chelsea's horizon has been transformed by the assembly of the Wyndham Chelsea, assembled on a lot where junk cars once sat abandoned in the wake of the fire of 1973.
Opened in 2001, the hotel chain was the first business to make a substantial investment in Chelsea after receivership.
The city's two chief shopping centers, the Mystic Mall and Chelsea Commons, have recently undergone primary renovations as well. Located on a small peninsula in Boston Harbor covering a mere 2.21 square miles (6 km2), Chelsea is the smallest town/city by region in Massachusetts.
Chelsea is bordered on three sides by water, giving the town/city a unique character.
The Mystic River borders Chelsea on the southwest, the Chelsea Creek and Mill Creek and the Island End River on the west.
A lesser drumlin (Mill Hill) is positioned on the east side of Chelsea, adjoining to Mill Creek.
This sloped and hilly landscape helps to divide the town/city into discernible neighborhoods, each with its own character, thereby giving the town/city a manageable sense of scale and orientation.
Even with its small size, there are a several distinct neighborhoods in Chelsea: On the south slope of the hill is the site of the historic Chelsea Naval Hospital, with a several brick and granite structures that have been converted to other uses.
Between the Naval Hospital and the shoreline is the Mary O'Malley Park, the biggest enhance park in Chelsea.
The precinct includes City Hall, modeled after Old Independence Hall in Philadelphia, the Public Library and Bunker Hill Community College's Chelsea campus.
It is now the quickest burgeoning part of Chelsea and has appreciateed a building boom since 2005, with town homes and multifamily housing complexes proliferating in the area. The Chelsea Family Dental is also positioned here, and the Kayem Food Headquarters are off Marginal Street.
The Chelsea High School is in this area, as well as Market Basket, the Dockside, Home Goods, T.J.
The historic Chelsea Clock is also in the area.
Chelsea Square - This historic precinct positioned in the downtown region contains the finest and most endured grouping of mid 19th and early 20th century commercial architecture in the city.
Chelsea Commons - Formerly known as Parkway Plaza, Chelsea Commons sits on a low flat region near the end of Mill Creek.
The new Chelsea Commons Park was just instead of adjoining to this site.
Covering the smallest of the city's drumlins, the Mill Hill neighborhood sits on a small neck of territory bounded by Chelsea Creek and Mill Creek.
Waterfront District -
Established to promote water-oriented industrialized uses at Forbes Industrial Park and the lower Chelsea Creek waterfront, its use remains primarily industrial.
Most of the waterfront from the Tobin Bridge to the mouth of Mill Creek is a Designated Port Area (DPA), and Chelsea has in the last decade embraced it.
In 2010, 38% of Chelsea inhabitants had been born outside of the United States.
Chelsea is served by the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority.
The MBTA Commuter Rail provides service from Boston's North Station with the Chelsea station on its Newburyport/Rockport Line.
Additionally, Chelsea is served by many MBTA bus routes providing small-town service to East Boston, Revere, Everett and other close-by cities.
The Route 1 North Expressway is a limited access highway that cuts City of Chelsea in half.
The Tobin Bridge, a primary county-wide transit artery, carries Route 1 from Chelsea athwart the Mystic River to Charlestown. Main article: Silver Line (MBTA) Extension to Chelsea Map of the prepared Silver Line Gateway route to Mystic Mall in Chelsea After an extensive study, Governor Deval Patrick announced in October 2013 that Mass - DOT will collaborate with the MBTA to extend the Silver Line bus rapid transit line to Chelsea via East Boston by 2017. The new route would then diverge to meet the Blue Line at Airport Station, and follow the Coughlin Bypass Road (a half-mile commercial-use-only road which opened in 2012) to the Chelsea Street Bridge.
The Silver Line is expected to stop at the four stations in Chelsea: Eastern Avenue, Box District, Downtown Chelsea, and Mystic Mall.
A new $20 million Chelsea commuter rail station and 'transit hub' will be constructed at the Mystic Mall end of the new Silver Line route, so that trains will no longer block Sixth Street. The new Silver Line and commuter rail stations will be fully handicapped accessible. Located inside the Box District neighborhood, the path will connect Downtown Chelsea and Eastern Avenue stations. Chelsea Public Schools has four elementary schools, three middle schools, and one high school, Chelsea High School.
The Chelsea school fitness has historically been towards the bottom of the state's test score rankings.
Chelsea has only one private school remaining, St.
Bunker Hill Community College and the for-profit Everest Institute hold satellite locations of their schools in Chelsea.
Elementary, middle, and high schools in Chelsea include: Chelsea High School Bunker Hill Community College - Chelsea Campus According to Chelsea's 2012 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city are: 1 City of Chelsea 1,254 Chelsea Fire Department (CFD) City Chelsea Chelsea Fire Headquarters The town/city of Chelsea is protected by the longterm position professional firefighters of the City of Chelsea Fire Department, operating from three fire stations athwart the city, each shift commanded by a Deputy Chief.
Chelsea Fire operates an apparatus fleet of 4 Engines, 2 Ladders, 2 Special Operations Units, a Maintenance Unit, a Foam Tender Unit, and a several other special, support, and reserve units.
Chelsea Fire responds to ~11,000 emergency calls annually. The current Chief of Department is Robert Better. Chelsea Engine 2 responds to over 4,000 emergency calls annually, with 4,269 in 2011, placing it among the busiest engine companies in the United States, and at 120% of the maximum acceptable threshold for engine business call volume, as set by the Commission on Fire Accreditation International. Engine 2, Engine 4 Tower 1 Squad 5, Foam Tender Unit (Class B), Maintenance Unit, Special Operations Unit 1, Special Operations Unit 2, Fire Prevention & Arson Fleet Chief 1(Chief of Department), Chief 2(Deputy Chief), K1(Deputy Chief of Fire Prevention) 307 Chestnut St.
Founded in 1897, the Chelsea Clock Company is one of the earliest, largest, and several remaining American clock manufacturing companies in existence.
In 2015, the Chelsea Clock Company moved to a lesser building a several blocks away from the initial location. Today, the business continues to build and repair clocks from its new headquarters.
Chelsea has eight places on the National Register of Historic Places.
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