Needham, Massachusetts Needham, Massachusetts Flag of Needham, Massachusetts Flag Official seal of Needham, Massachusetts Needham is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States.
Needham was first settled in 1680 with the purchase of a tract of territory measuring 4 miles (6.4 km) by 5 miles (8.0 km) from Chief Nehoiden for the total of 10 pounds, 40 acres (160,000 m2) of land, and 40 shillings worth of corn.
Originally part of the Dedham Grant, Needham split from Dedham and was titled after the town of Needham Market in Suffolk, England, a neighbor of the English town of Dedham.
The fill to reclaim the bay from the water was obtained from Needham, Massachusetts from the region of present-day Route 128.
In 1865, William Carter established a knitting foundry business in Needham Heights that would eventually turn into a primary manufacturer and dominant brand of children's apparel in the United States.
This plant was positioned in the Charles River Village section of Needham with another large facility in New Jersey.
The following year, Needham and Wellesley high schools began playing an annual football game on Thanksgiving, now the second-longest running high school football rivalry in the United States (and longest such contest on Thanksgiving).
Needham's populace interval by over 50 percent amid the 1930s. In 2005, Needham became the first town/city in the United States to raise the age to legally buy tobacco products to 21. In addition to Wellesley on the northwest, Needham borders Newton and the West Roxbury section of Boston on the northeast, and Dover, Westwood, and Dedham on the south.
Needham is elevated at sea level, but is a very hilly town.
Needham uses the old style town government, with a representative town meeting.
Also, the populace of Needham elects a Board of Selectmen, which is essentially the executive branch of the town government.
Needham is primarily a bedroom improve and commuter suburban precinct positioned outside of Boston.
Some of this trade remains: Needham has been home to a Coca-Cola bottling plant since 1986. Trader Joe's also operates a packing plant in Needham.
More recently, Needham has begun to attract high technology and Internet firms, such as PTC and Trip Advisor, to this part of town.
The Town of Needham operates one high school, Needham High School, which underwent a $62-million renovation that was instead of in 2009, two middle schools, William F.
Pollard Middle School, for seventh and eighth grade, and High Rock School, for sixth undertaking only, and five elementary schools for grades K-5, which are John Eliot Elementary School, Hillside Elementary School, William Mitchell Elementary School, Newman Elementary School and Broadmeadow Elementary School.
Needham is presently in the process of building a new elementary school to replace the aging Hillside Elementary School, scheduled to open in the fall of 2019 or 2020. Needham is also home to private schools such as St.
The I-95/Route 128 circumferential highway that circles Boston passes through Needham, with three exits providing access to the town.
Commuter rail service from Boston's South Station is provided by the MBTA with four stops in Needham on its Needham Line: Needham Heights, Needham Center, Needham Junction and Hersey.
Needham is part of the Greater Boston media market.
In addition to the Boston Globe (and its Your Town Needham website) and Boston Herald newspapers, there are two small-town weekly newspapers, the Needham Times (published by Gatehouse Media, Inc.) and Needham Hometown Weekly (published by Hometown Publications, LLC), and a website owned by AOL called Needham Patch. The studios of tv stations WCVB (5 Boston, ABC) and WUNI (27 Worcester, Univision) are positioned in Needham, as are the transmitters of WCVB, WBZ-TV (4 Boston, CBS), WGBH-TV (2 Boston, PBS), WGBX-TV (44 Boston, PBS), WFXT (25 Boston, Fox), WSBK (38 Boston, autonomous), WLVI (56 Cambridge, CW), and WYDN (48 Worcester, Daystar Television).
The Needham Channel provides Public-access tv to cable TV subscribers in Needham.
News, Public Affairs and Education - The Needham Channel News (a weekly live small-town news program), Needham Schools Spotlight Locally produced programs - Inside Talk, Clelia's Cucina Italiana, The Language of Business, What's My House Worth, services from Needham homes of worship Needham has one airways broadcast studio location, that of Concord-licensed 1120 WBNW positioned at 144 Gould Street.
Harold Russell, actor, lived in Needham.
Sarah Saltzberg, actress/singer and star of Broadway's The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, is originally from Needham.
John Slattery, actor, attended high school in Needham.
Arnold Stang, actor, lived in Needham at time of his death. Garrett, prolific 19th- and 20th-century book illustrator, lived in Needham.
Pietro Pezzati, portrait artist, lived in Needham for about 30 years.
Michael John Straub, artist, was born in Needham.
Ware, architect, was born in Needham.
Jeff Taylor, founder of Monster.com, attended Needham High School.
Robert Freeman, pianist, musicologist, and longtime director of the Eastman School of Music, lived in Needham.
Joey Mc - Intyre, singer-songwriter and actor, was born in Needham.
Richard Patrick, founder of industrialized band Filter and former member of Nine Inch Nails, was born in Needham.
Tiger Okoshi, jazz trumpet musician, lives in Needham.
Barry, ice hockey player and coach, lived in Needham until his death.
Mike Grier, team prestige of the Buffalo Sabres NHL team, lives in Needham.
Robbie Ftorek, NHL coach and star player in both the NHL an WHA, was born and raised in Needham and attended Needham High School.
Steven Hauschka, Seattle Seahawks kicker, attended Needham High School.
Eric Johnson, New Orleans Saints tight end, was born and raised in Needham and played football, basketball, and volleyball for Needham High School.
Kristine Lilly, former US women's soccer player, lives in Needham.
Frank Malzone, former third baseman for the Boston Red Sox, lived in Needham until his death.
Rachel Mayer, US Olympic figure skater, lived in Needham.
Mike Milbury, sportscaster and former member of the Boston Bruins, lives in Needham.
Milt Schmidt, ice hockey player and manager for the Boston Bruins, lived in Needham until his death.
Mike Lalor, former defenseman and Stanley Cup winner with the Montreal Canadiens, lives in Needham.
Tom O'Regan, former forward for the Boston University Terriers and the Pittsburgh Penguins, lives in Needham.
Derek Sanderson, former Boston Bruins player, lives in Needham.
Aly Raisman, US women's creative gymnast and six-time Olympic medalist, lived in Needham.
Karl Ravech, ESPN Baseball Tonight anchor, was born and raised in Needham and attended Needham High School.
Lee Eisenberg, writer for The Office, was born in Needham.
Scott Rosenberg, screenwriter, was born and raised in Needham.
Janet Tashjian, the author of The Gospel According to Larry and the My Life as a Book series, lived with her family in Needham.
Charlie Baker, governor of Massachusetts, was raised on Coolidge Avenue in Needham.
Khassan Baiev, a Chechen surgeon who treated Russian soldiers and Chechen rebels, most prominently Shamil Basayev and Salman Raduyev, author of The Oath: A Surgeon Under Fire, lives in Needham.
Peter De - Fazio, a United States congressman from Oregon, was born in Needham and graduated from Needham High School.
Gracey, Commandant of the Coast Guard, lived and attended high school in Needham.
Cheryl Jacques, first openly lesbian member of the Massachusetts Senate and later president of the Human Rights Campaign, lived in Needham and represented its precinct as state senator.
Chester Nimitz, Jr., a retired United States Navy rear admiral and World War II submarine hero, lived in Needham.
Fatemeh Haghighatjoo, a reformist member of the Iranian Parliament who teaches women's studies at UMass Boston, lives in Needham.
Young a United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts judge, lives in Needham.
"Little remains of 19th-century eccentric's wondrous estate in Needham The Boston Globe".
History of Needham, Massachusetts, 1711 1911.
Needham Historical Society, Images of America: Needham, Dover, NH, Arcadia Publishing, pp.
"1990 Enumeration of Population, General Population Characteristics: Massachusetts" (PDF).
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