Malden, Massachusetts Malden, Massachusetts View of Malden High School View of Malden High School Official seal of Malden, Massachusetts Location in Middlesex County in Massachusetts Location in Middlesex County in Massachusetts Malden, Massachusetts is positioned in the US Malden, Massachusetts - Malden, Massachusetts Malden is a town/city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
At the time of the 2010 United States Census, the populace was at 59,450 citizens .
In 2009, Malden was titled the "Best Place to Raise Your Kids" in Massachusetts by Bloomberg Businessweek. Malden, a hilly woodland region north of the Mystic River, was settled by Puritans in 1640 on territory purchased in 1629 from the Pennacook tribe.
It was incorporated as a separate town in 1649. The name Malden was chose by Joseph Hills, an early settler and landholder, and was titled after Maldon, England. The town/city originally encompassed what are now the adjoining metros/cities of Melrose (until 1850) and Everett (until 1870).
Malden High School has the second-oldest continuous high school football rivalry in the United States with Medford High School.
In 1984, Malden came to nationwide renown as the locale of the controversial Fells Acres Day Care Center preschool trial.
In 2004, a same-sex Malden couple was the first to marry in Massachusetts at precisely 9:15 AM on May 17, 2004 at Cambridge City Hall.
Massachusetts was the first state in the United States to copy same-sex marriage licenses. 1852 map of Boston showing Malden Boojum Rock positioned in the north west corner of Malden inside the Middlesex Fells Reservation is the highest point in Malden with an altitude of approximately 275 feet.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 5.1 square miles (13 km2), of which 5.1 square miles (13 km2) is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km2) (0.78%) is water.
Bordered on the northwest by the cliffs of Middlesex Fells, Malden is drained by the Malden River.
As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 59,450 citizens , 25,161 homeholds, and 13,575 families residing in the city.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 52.5% White, 14.8% African American, 0.14% Native American, 20.1% Asian (11.1% Chinese, 3.1% Asian Indian, 2.8% Vietnamese), 0.06% Pacific Islander, 2.10% from other competitions, and 3.46% were multiracial.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 19.9% under the age of 18, 8.5% from 18 to 24, 36.9% from 25 to 44, 20.8% from 45 to 64, and 13.9% who were 65 years of age or older.
As of 2009 and 2010, 37% of inhabitants of Malden were born outside of the United States.
Malden's percentage of foreign-born inhabitants was the second-highest in Massachusetts, after Chelsea. In 1990 Malden had 2,805 Asian residents, making the town/city 5.2% Asian.
In 2000 this increased to 7,882 Asians, or 14.5% of the city's population, making it one of ten Massachusetts metros/cities with the biggest Asian populations in the state.
From 1990 to 2000 the Vietnamese populace increased by 187% and the Indian populace increased by 262%. From 2000 to 2010 the Chinese populace of Malden increased by about 50%. Institutions serving the Asian improve in Malden include the Immigrant Learning Center, which offers English as a second language classes; the Malden Asian Pacific American Coalition; a satellite office of the Vietnamese American Civic Association; the nonprofit multiservice organization Great Wall Center; and the antipoverty agency Tri-City Community Action Program Inc. Malden High School c.
Malden Public Schools is the school district.
Malden has five enhance elementary and middle schools; one charter elementary, middle, and high school; one enhance high school; one Catholic high school, one Catholic Pre-K through 8 school; and one enhance preschool.
The elementary schools in Malden were replaced in the late 1990s with five new facilities: Beebe, Ferryway, Forestdale, Linden, and Salemwood.
The city's three high schools are Malden High School, Malden Catholic High School and Mystic Valley Regional Charter High School.
According to a study conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics in 2013, Malden High School was found to be the most diverse enhance high school in Massachusetts. Malden's squares include Malden Square (at Main and Pleasant streets), Converse Square (at Main, Salem, and Ferry streets) Oak Grove Square (at Oak Grove T Station), Bellrock Square (at the intersections of Cross, Main and Medford Sts.), Judson Square (near Ferryway School), former Suffolk Square (at Cross and Bryant Streets), and the locale of a grow Jewish community, Maplewood Square (at Lebanon, Maplewood and Salem Streets) and Linden Square.
Some of the neighborhoods in Malden include Faulkner (location of the former Suffolk Square) West End, Edgeworth, Linden, Ferryway, Forestdale, Maplewood, Bellrock, and Belmont Hill (located between Bellrock and Ferryway).
Bellrock is the south central section of the city, bordered by Main Street on the east, Charles Street on the north, the Malden River on the west, and the Everett line on the south.
A school in Edgeworth is the former Emerson grammar school.
Malden Catholic High School was originally positioned in Edgeworth on Highland Ave.
The school's football team played their home games at Brother Gilbert Stadium, positioned at Commercial & Medford Streets in Edgeworth.
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The city's subway stops are Malden Center and Oak Grove.
The MBTA's commuter rail also has one stop in the town/city (Malden Center) and can stop at Oak Grove if necessary.
There is a sizeable section of the old Boston and Maine Saugus Branch Railroad line running athwart the middle of Malden.
Other sites include a 400-meter synthetic running track at Mac - Donald Stadium; 56 acres (23 ha) of the Middlesex Fells Reservation; the 25-acre (10 ha) Fellsmere Pond; a DCR-owned-and-operated swimming pool; a 30,000 square feet (2,800 m ) field home assembled under the new school stone plan; the state-of-the-art Malden YMCA rather than assembly in early 2007; and Pine Banks Park, directed by a Board of Trustees with equal representation by the metros/cities of Malden and Melrose.
One of Malden's finest and most notable landmarks is the enhance library which was designed by Henry Hobson Richardson and assembled in 1885.
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Malden Public Library website Births, Marriages and Deaths in the Town of Malden, 1649 1850 by Deloraine Pendre Corey, presented 1903.
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