Fitchburg, Massachusetts Fitchburg, Massachusetts Downtown Fitchburg seen from the south.
Downtown Fitchburg seen from the south.
Official seal of Fitchburg, Massachusetts Location in Worcester County and the state of Massachusetts.
Location in Worcester County and the state of Massachusetts.
Fitchburg, Massachusetts is positioned in the US Fitchburg, Massachusetts - Fitchburg, Massachusetts State Massachusetts Fitchburg is the third biggest city in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States.
Fitchburg is home to Fitchburg State University as well as 17 enhance and private elementary and high schools.
3.1 Fitchburg Art Museum 3.5 Fitchburg Historical Society 10.1 Fitchburg Central Steam Plant 11.3 West Fitchburg Steam Line Trail Fitchburg was first settled in 1730 as part of Lunenburg, and was officially set apart from that township and incorporated in 1764.
Fitchburg is situated on both the Nashua River and a barns line.
The initial Fitchburg Railroad ran through the Hoosac Tunnel, linking Boston and Albany, New York.
The tunnel was assembled using the Burleigh Rock Drill, designed and assembled in Fitchburg.
Fitchburg was a 19th-century industrialized center.
As the town/city is one of two shire towns, the Northern Worcester County Registry of Deeds, established in 1903, and the county jail on Water Street were two county facilities positioned in Fitchburg.
Fitchburg is positioned at 42 34 43 N 71 48 12 W (42.578689, -71.803383). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 28.1 square miles (73 km2), of which 27.8 square miles (72 km2) is territory and 0.3 square miles (0.78 km2), or 1.07%, is water.
The highest point in Fitchburg is the summit of Brown Hill near the northwestern corner of the city, at 1,210 feet (370 m) above sea level. Fitchburg is bordered by Ashby to the north, Lunenburg to the east, Leominster to the south, Westminster to the west, and a small portion of Ashburnham to the northwest.
Fitchburg's climate is humid continental, which is the dominant climate for Massachusetts and New England.
Climate data for Fitchburg Fitchburg is divided into multiple different neighborhoods/villages, including: Fitchburg Art Museum Main article: Fitchburg Art Museum The exhibition was established in 1925 through the bequest of artist, collector and Fitchburg native Eleanor Norcross (1854 1923).
Fitchburg is noted for the "Rollstone Boulder", a 110-ton specimen of porphyritic granite, which is in a small triangular park adjoining to the town/city green.
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, this athletic facility was t of Alva Crocker, in 1918, to the City Of Fitchburg's school children.
Babe Ruth once visited Crocker field and asked Clarence Amiott, then the Fitchburg High School Athletic Director, "What experienced team plays here?" Amiott answered "The Fitchburg High School teams." Included in the exhibition's compilation of over 2000 toys are tin toys from Japan, Hungary, Germany, and the United States.
Fitchburg Historical Society Main article: Fitchburg Historical Society The Society homes more than 200,000 items related to the history of Fitchburg.
Included in the archives are initial Sentinel newspapers from 1838 to 1976, town/city directories, photographs, scrapbooks, manuscripts, family genealogies, postcards, files on industries in the City, and books and pamphlets on Fitchburg's history from the 1700s to the present.
The Society also has a remarkable compilation of artifacts which tell the story of Fitchburg early iron hearth cooking tools, the first printing press of the Fitchburg Sentinel, machines illustrating the strong industrialized tradition of the City, a stellar compilation of early paintings, and clothing representing many decades in Fitchburg.
A elected strategic plan instead of in 2001 pointed out a need to find a building better suited our needs in order to continue collecting and preserving the history of Fitchburg and conducting programs for students and the general public.
Francis Phoenix Building the Society has moved to its new locale of 781 Main Street, Fitchburg, MA.
Henry Coggshall, an executive of The Fitchburg Gas Company, and his wife in 1894.
The Friends of Coggshall Park was established in 1992 when approximately $1 million in state and federal funds were used to renovate the park.
Other investments made by the Friends have been even more significant, such as the purchase of a new fountain for Mirror Lake and a specialized off-road firefighting vehicle for use in Coggshall or elsewhere around the town/city as needed.Friends of Coggshall Park Source: United States Enumeration records and Population Estimates Program data. Fitchburg is protected year-round by the 98 paid, experienced firefighters of the City of Fitchburg Fire Department.
The department operates out of 3 fire stations, positioned throughout the city, under the command of one deputy chief/shift commander per shift.
The department operates a fleet of 3 engines, 1 fortress ladder, 1 rescue ambulance, 1 special operations unit, 1 brush unit, 1 fireboat, 1 maintenance unit, 1 transport bus, and a several other special support and reserve units, including 2 reserve engines, 1 reserve engine/tanker, and 1 reserve fortress ladder.
The Fitchburg Fire Department responds to approximately 8,000 emergency calls annually.
There are four law enforcement agencies that serve Fitchburg, two at the town/city level, one at the county level, and one at the state level.
Fitchburg Police Department - The Fitchburg Police Department is a full-service law enforcement agency with law enforcement responsibilities for 28 square miles (73 km2) and 192 miles (310 km) of enhance road.
The department responds to over 40,000 incidents each year, while addressing the needs of a populace of approximately 40,000 citizens in Central Massachusetts.
Fitchburg State University Campus Police - The Fitchburg State University Police Department includes a Chief, two Lieutenants, one Sergeant, fourteen full-time Police Officers, three full-time Dispatchers.
The police officers are fully trained, licensed, and armed as Special State Police Officers under Massachusetts General Law c.22c, 63 and c.73,18 as well as sworn Worcester County Deputy Sheriffs.
In addition, in 2012 Fitchburg Mayor Lisa Wong swore in all FSUPD officers as Fitchburg special officers per request of the municipal police, expanding the ground police's ability to assist the town/city police.
Massachusetts State Police - The Massachusetts State Police (MSP) is an agency of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts' Executive Office of Public Safety and Security responsible for criminal law enforcement and traffic vehicle regulation athwart the state.
There is a medical facility in Fitchburg, Hospital (Burbank Campus). Fitchburg is also served by Hospital Health - Alliance (Leominster Campus), which is positioned in neighboring Leominster.
Public library, Fitchburg, ca.1907 The Fitchburg Public Library was established in 1859 after people of Fitchburg approve an article on the warrant requesting $1851 and quarters in the Town Hall for the first Fitchburg Public Library. In 1885 Rodney Wallace builds and furnishes the Wallace Library and Art Gallery at the corner of Main Street and Newton Place as t to the citizens of Fitchburg.
It wasn't unit 1950 that a new separate Fitchburg Youth Library was opened.
Service of the library was increased with the purchase of a bookmobile which extended service to outlying areas of the city.
Fitchburg Public Library becomes the first county-wide library in the Massachusetts Regional Library System in 1962.
The federal Library Services and Construction Act and cash from the City of Fitchburg also funded the project.
In fiscal year 2008, the town/city of Fitchburg spent 1.34% ($1,111,412) of its budget on its enhance library some $27 per person. In fiscal year 2009, the town/city of Fitchburg spent .48% ($388,977) of its budget on its enhance library -- $9.23 per person. This represented a year over year drop in municipal funding of 65% between FY2008 and FY2009.
As a result, the Fitchburg Public Library did not meet Massachusetts minimum standards of enhance library services and was not certified by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners for FY2009. It returned to certification in FY2012. Furthermore, on going support comes from the Friends of the Fitchburg Public Library.
The Friends of FPL establish closer relations between the library and the citizens it serves, promotes support of services, and funds a several important services such purchasing books for the library and the fees for the exhibition passes.
In 2014 the Fitchburg Law Library opened at the Fitchburg Public Library in response to the closure of the office on Elm Street in Fitchburg.
The new library locale is fully accessible and open to the public.
1920, now Fitchburg State University Fitchburg State University's Hammond Building Fitchburg Arts Academy (FAA) Fitchburg High School Fitchburg State University Established in 1894 by an act of the Massachusetts Legislature, the State Normal School in Fitchburg opened in temporary quarters in the old high school building on Academy Street.For more details of the history of Fitchburg State Transportation for Fitchburg is largely supplied by the Montachusett Regional Transit Authority (MART).
It also provides connections to the MBTA Commuter Rail line at Fitchburg Station.
The Fitchburg Station is the last stop on the Fitchburg Line from the North Station in Boston.
The Fitchburg Municipal Airport is situated in 335 acres (136 ha) off Airport Road in Fitchburg near the Leominster border.
In 1940, the airport territory was donated to the City of Fitchburg and serves the greater Fitchburg area.
Throughout the early twentieth century, Fitchburg was known for its paper industry, which occupied the banks of the Nashua River and working a large segment of the European immigrant population.
It has been noted by many inhabitants in Fitchburg that the Nashua River would be dyed the color the paper mills had been coloring the paper that day. Two truck manufacturing firms, the Wachusett Truck Company and the New England Truck Company, directed in Fitchburg amid the early twentieth century.
Simonds International, Saw manufacturer established in Fitchburg in 1832 and still operating on Intervale Road.
Assumption Life, a large financial services company, was established in Fitchburg in 1903 before moving to Moncton, New Brunswick.
Fitchburg Central Steam Plant The Fitchburg Central Steam Plant (locally known by its nickname: the PLT) was assembled in 1928 to furnish steam and electricity to the many small-town paper mills.
The EPA provided the City of Fitchburg $50,500 in grant cash to help clean up hazardous substances on the site.
Unfortunately as of December 2015 the Fitchburg Central Steam Plant has been razed.
West Fitchburg Steamline Trail Park, a unique industrialized tradition resource.
The Fitchburg Parks and Recreation Department maintains parks in Fitchburg, which include: South Fitchburg Playground It is positioned inside minutes from downtown Fitchburg, the hustling sounds of the town/city fade into a chorus of songbirds, rustling leaves, and zipping dragonflies.
West Fitchburg Steam Line Trail The West Fitchburg Steam Line Trail is a bike and walking path positioned in Fitchburg on Route 2 - A.
The trail is the first contracted part of a prepared universal to build a different use bike and walking trail through Fitchburg.
The Fitchburg Steam Line Trail is positioned near the junction of Route 31 (Princeton Rd) and Route 2 - A (Westminster St) at 465 Westminster Street.
The trail starts to the left of the Fitchburg Central Steam Plant.
Fitchburg has its own access TV station, Fitchburg Access Television.
WXPL, FM-91.3 Fitchburg State Radio Fitchburg's cultural highlights include: Fitchburg Art Museum Fitchburg Historical Society Fitchburg Longsjo Classic Fitchburg Artistree Fitchburg Military Band In the fictional Harry Potter universe, Fitchburg is the hometown of the experienced Quidditch team the Fitchburg Finches. The Mc - Connell Story, starring Alan Ladd has its opening in Fitchburg, and many scenes of June Allyson's character's family are in Fitchburg, as the movie progresses.
The opening scene in the prominent 1961 movie, By Love Possessed, starring Lana Turner, Ephram Zimbalist Jr., Jason Robards, and George Hamilton, features Fitchburg's Court House and Monument Park.
The band Nirvana played a concert at the Wallace Civic Center in Fitchburg on November 11, 1993.
In the Fringe episode "The Human Kind", Olivia goes to Fitchburg to retrieve an electromagnet.
In 2012, Dark Horse Comics began releasing an eight-issue limited comic book series entitled Falling Skies: The Battle of Fitchburg, with Paul Tobin writing and Juan Ferreyra as artist.
The story takes place chronologically between seasons one and two of the Falling Skies tv show, and details a costly engagement occurring between the skitters and the 2nd Massachusetts Militia Regiment when the aliens surround the human forces at Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Everett Francis Briggs, Catholic priest and miners' activist, born in Fitchburg, his life's mission was dedicated to the victims of the Monongah Mining Disaster Lempi Ikavalko, Finnish-born poet, author, journalist; for 30 years, editor at Fitchburg's Raivaaja journal Iver Johnson, of Iver Johnson's Arms & Cycle Works, positioned in Fitchburg Art Longsjo, Winter and Summer Olympian; Fitchburg Longsjo Classic is held in his memory George Noory, host of Coast to Coast AM; spent some years in Fitchburg and occasionally mentions the town/city on his show Eleanor Norcross, founder of the Fitchburg Art Museum, artist, collector, civil reformer Fitchburg has four sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International: Fitchburg Trappers Liberte de Fitchburg Gannett, Henry (1905).
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