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Location in Essex County and the state of Massachusetts.
Methuen, Massachusetts is positioned in the US Methuen, Massachusetts - Methuen, Massachusetts Methuen /m u n/ is a town/city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States.
Methuen was originally part of Haverhill, Massachusetts.
In 1724 Stephen Barker and the rest in the part of that town petitioned the General Court to grant them permission to form a new town above Hawke's Meadow Brook.
The town was titled for Sir Paul Methuen, a member of the King's Privy Council and friend of acting Provincial Governor William Dummer.
Construction of the Methuen Cotton Mills at the Spicket River falls in the 1820s and the increased manufacture of hats and shoes in small factories along the Spicket spurred the centralization of Methuen's economic, residentiary and cultural activities inside the region around Osgood, Broadway, Hampshire and Pleasant streets.
Three wealthy and prominent families the Nevins, the Tenneys and the Searles played a momentous part in Methuen's history and development.
These families were instrumental in the beginning of many of Methuen's landmarks, including the Nevins Memorial Library, the Searles building, Tenney Gatehouse, Nevins Home, Spicket Falls, and the Civil War monument between Pleasant and Charles streets. Methuen is positioned at 42 43 48 N 71 10 46 W (42.730040, 71.179352). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 23.1 square miles (59.7 km2), of which 22.2 square miles (57.6 km2) is territory and 0.77 square miles (2.0 km2), or 3.42%, is water. Methuen lies alongside the northern banks of the Merrimack River, and is also bisected by the Spicket (originally "Spigot") River, as well as many brooks and streams.
There are a several ponds dotting the region as well, and the town is home to a town forest, a bird sanctuary, and a small state park (Tenney State Park).
Pine Island, near the southern end of town in the Merrimack River, is also part of the town's land.
Methuen lies along the northwestern edge of Essex County, just east of Middlesex County and just south of Rockingham County, New Hampshire.
The irregularly-shaped town is bordered by Haverhill to the northeast, North Andover to the east, Lawrence and Andover to the south, Dracut (Middlesex County) to the west, Pelham, New Hampshire (Hillsborough County) to the northwest, and Salem, New Hampshire (Rockingham County) to the north.
Methuen is positioned 30 miles (48 km) north-northwest of Boston and 25 miles (40 km) south-southeast of Manchester, New Hampshire.
Methuen lies at the northern end of Interstate 93 in Massachusetts, with three exits providing access.
Massachusetts Route 213, the "Loop Connector", provides highway access between the two, lying entirely inside town and having five exits of its own.
Construction to replace this interchange began in July 2014; it is expected to be complete at some point in 2017 with a partial cloverleaf interchange. I-93 provides the town's only bridge athwart the Merrimack; there are a several crossings in Lawrence, and a several in neighboring Haverhill, but none for 7 miles (11 km) upstream from I-93 all the way to the easterly end of Lowell.
Methuen is served by the Merrimack Valley Regional Transit Authority's bus service; there is no other mass transit source inside town.
Source: United States Enumeration records and Population Estimates Program data. In the city, the populace was spread out with 24.7% under the age of 18, 7.3% from 18 to 24, 31.0% from 25 to 44, 21.6% from 45 to 64, and 15.3% who were 65 years of age or older.
Historically, Methuen had a town meeting-selectmen form of government and was known as the Town of Methuen until it adopted a charter replacing its traditional town meeting and selectmen with a council and manager.
Even with a form of government that had historically and legally been exclusive to cities, the community, in a gesture of traditionalism, retained the name Town of Methuen in its charter. However, because Massachusetts metros/cities have self-governing powers not available to towns, it became known for legal purposes as "The City Known as the Town of Methuen".
Methuen's town/city government consists of a mayor, three Councilors-at-Large, two East District councilors, two Central District councilors, two West District councilors, and six School Committee members.
Methuen High School Methuen High School Methuen High School's athletic squads play in the Merrimack Valley Conference.
Methuen Memorial Music Hall The Searles Tenney Nevins Historic District, established by the town/city in 1992 to preserve the "distinctive architecture and rich character of one of Massachusetts' most unique neighborhoods", is titled after the three Methuen town/city fathers: David C.
From the City of Methuen: The historic precinct boundaries were established to include properties and buildings constructed or used by the Searles, Tenney and Nevins families and the citizens who worked for them. The historic precinct is administered by the Methuen Historic District Commission, which protects the precinct from alterations that might compromise its historic integrity.
Bounded inside the Searles Tenney Nevins Historic District are the Spicket Falls Historic District and the Pleasant-High Historic District.
Forest Lake is a recreational great pond of over 55 acres (22 ha) bordered by the Methuen town forest.
Methuen Memorial Music Hall was assembled specifically to home the Great Organ, assembled originally by Walcker Orgelbau for the Boston Music Hall, and procured by philanthropist and town/city benefactor Edward Francis Searles more than a century ago.
The Methuen Rail Trail is situated in the railbanked Boston and Maine Manchester and Lawrence Railroad corridor.
National Register of Historic Places listings in Methuen, Massachusetts List of foundry towns in Massachusetts City of Methuen.
Although it is called the "Town of Methuen," it is a statutory town/city of Massachusetts.
"Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Methuen Town city, Massachusetts".
"City of Methuen, Massachusetts Profile" (pdf).
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Methuen Town city, Massachusetts".
"Methuen Rotary Project: Home".
"TOTAL POPULATION (P1), 2010 Enumeration Summary File 1".
"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).
"1860 Census" (PDF).
Populations of Cities, Towns, &c.
"1850 Census" (PDF).
Populations of Cities, Towns, &c.
"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
"City of Methuen Website: the Historic District".
Methuen: An Eclectic History.
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