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Saugus, Massachusetts Saugus Town Hall Saugus Town Hall Official seal of Saugus, Massachusetts Type Town Manager Board of Selectmen/Representative town meeting Website Town of Saugus, Official Web Site Saugus is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area.
Saugus is an Native American (Algonquin) name believed to mean "great" or "extended".
In 1637, the territory known as Saugus (which also contained the present day metros/cities and suburbs of Swampscott, Nahant, Lynn, Lynnfield, Reading, and Wakefield) was retitled Lin or Lynn, after King's Lynn in Norfolk, England. In 1646, the Saugus Iron Works, then called Hammersmith, began operations.
Nearly 100 men from Saugus fought in the American Revolutionary War. Saugus' preacher, Parson Joseph Roby, worked to strengthen the spirit of independence in Saugus and was instrumental in seeing that Saugus sent a large contingent to fight in the war. The nineteenth century ice trade began in Saugus when in 1804 Frederic Tudor cut ice from a pond on the family farm and shipped it to Martinique. About four miles of this road was assembled in Saugus.
On February 17, 1815, present-day Saugus was officially incorporated as a town.
At the time of its incorporation, Saugus' populace was 784.
During the Industrial Revolution, many new industries moved to Saugus.
Shoes and woolen goods were made in Saugus Center, and tobacco was produced in Cliftondale and East Saugus. Saugus' first postal service was established in 1832 in East Saugus.
In 1858 two more were established - one in Saugus Center and one in Cliftondale. Now only the Cliftondale postal service remains in Saugus.
In 1875 the town assembled its second and current town hall on Central Street.
The assembly of the town hall put Saugus in a $50,000 debt.
For this and other reasons the neighborhood of East Saugus sought to be set off from Saugus and took in to the town/city of Lynn.
East Saugus was unable to get a bill in both homes of the state legislature, and the copy was dropped after the town appropriated $5,000 for the laying of water pipes through East Saugus. Passenger trains ran through Saugus from 1853 to 1958 on the Saugus Branch Railroad.
There were three Saugus Branch stations in Saugus (Saugus Center, Cliftondale, and Pleasant Hills) and two just outside the town's borders in Lynn (East Saugus) and Revere (Franklin Park). Saugus Civil War Memorial and Town Hall During the American Civil War, 155 Saugonians enlisted in the Union Army and eight the rest enlisted in the Union Navy. Saugus native Gustavus Fox served as the United States Assistant Secretary of the Navy amid the war.
The USS Saugus, a Union Navy monitor titled after the town was launched in December 1863. Following the war Henry E.
Hone donated a large granite monument to the town of Saugus.
The monument, which was designed by Melzar Hunt Mosman and cost $10,000 to build, contains the names of all of the men from Saugus who served amid the Civil War on bronze tablets.
The monument was erected in the rotary at Saugus Center in 1875. Following the Civil War, the Cliftondale section of Saugus became a primary producer of tobacco as many of the southern tobacco plantations had been destroyed.
Waitt & Bond became a primary producer of cigars and the snuff factory in East Saugus was the nation's biggest producer of that product.
Due to its grow tobacco industry, Saugus was dubbed the "Winston-Salem of the North". From 1859 to 1905, Saugus was home to the Franklin Park harness racing track. also known as the Old Saugus Race Track or Saugus Race Course. It closed in 1905 after small-town citizens complained about the questionable patrons that the racetrack attracted. In 1911 the racetrack became an airfield. In 1912, the property was purchased by the General Aviation Corporation who titled it Atwood Park with respect to their most famous pilot, Harry Atwood. The airfield saw the first airmail bringy in New England on May 30, 1912. Pioneer aviators Ruth Bancroft Law and Lincoln J.
Bailey was murdered at Breakheart Hill Farm in Saugus.
In 1934, Breakheart Hill Forest, a private hunting retreat positioned in North Saugus, was purchased by the Metropolitan District Commission for use as a state park. Shortly after purchasing Breakheart, the MDC turned the territory over to the Civilian Conservation Corps, which assembled roads and trails, planted trees, and restored two dams on the property. In 1936, Breakheart Reservation was opened to the public. Wheelabrator Technologies' Waste-to-Energy plant in Saugus became the first commercially prosperous incineration plant in the U.S.
Saugus became the first town in Massachusetts to accept this form of government. On February 16, 1948, James Shurtleff was unanimously chosen by the Board of Selectmen to turn into the first Town Manager of Saugus. Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site Robbins began excavating the site of the Saugus Iron Works, which had turn into hidden by underbrush since its closure.
Based on the archeological evidence gathered by Robbins as well as historical documents and conjecture, the First Iron Works Association, with funding from the American Iron and Steel Institute, reconstructed the Saugus Iron Works.
The Saugus Iron Works was opened on September 18, 1954 and directed as a private exhibition from 1954 until April 5, 1968, when it was retitled the Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site and became part of the National Park Service system. Saugus is home to the earliest barber shop in the United States.
In the 1970s, the town, led by Town Manager Francis Moorehouse, attempted to transform the region around Route 107 by having an petroleum refinery and a garbage incineration plant built. Although the refinery plans fell through in October 1975, the incineration plant was completed.
The Saugus Town Hall and the Stackpole Field clubhouse were renovated. In 2001, Town Manager Steven Angelo was able to secure federal funds to dredge the Saugus River, a universal that had lingered since the 1960s. The Saugus American Little League team represented New England in the 2003 Little League World Series.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 11.8 square miles (30.6 km2), of which 10.8 square miles (28.0 km2) is territory and 1.0 square mile (2.6 km2), or 8.53%, is water. The town lies just inland from Massachusetts Bay, divided from the ocean by the Point of Pines neighborhood of Revere.
The southern end of town is dominated by Rumney Marsh, which lies along the Pines River, a tributary of the Saugus River.
The Saugus River flows through town, and is fed by a several brooks.
Saugus Center rotary Saugus is divided into a several neighborhood villages, including Saugus Center, East Saugus, North Saugus, Pleasant Hills, Lynnhurst, Oaklandvale, Hammersmith Village, Golden Hills, Blacksmith Village, Bristow and Cliftondale.
Of these, the majority of the town's populace resides in Lynnhurst, Pleasant Hills, Cliftondale, East Saugus and Saugus Center; Oaklandvale and North Saugus are much less densely populated.
The town lies at the southern end of Essex County (though it is not the southernmost town in the county; Nahant extends just south of the town).
The town is bordered by Lynnfield to the north, Lynn to the east, Revere (in Suffolk County) to the south, and Melrose and Wakefield to the west, in Middlesex County.
Saugus lies 8 miles (13 km) southwest of Salem, 9 miles (14 km) northeast of Boston, 24 miles (39 km) southwest of Cape Ann and 20 miles (32 km) south of the New Hampshire state line.
Route 1 passes through town along a divided highway, with five exit ramps throughout town.
The route is also shared by a 3/4-mile long concurrency with Route 129, which passes through North Saugus before joining Route 1 to head northward into Lynnfield.
Route 99 terminates at Route 1 as well, in the southern end of town.
Route 107 passes through the town as the Salem Turnpike through the Rumney Marsh, crossing the Saugus River into Lynn over the Fox Hill Bridge.
Saugus is also served by a several MBTA bus, linking the town with close-by train lines.
Saugus Town Hall front view Since 1947 Saugus has had a Plan E form of government, which is a combination of representative town meeting and Town Manager.
Saugus was the first town in Massachusetts to accept this form of government. This plan encompassed a Single transferable vote voting system, but this was abandoned in 1950. Main article: Town Manager of Saugus, Massachusetts The Town Manager serves as the chief administrative manager and chief fiscal officer of Saugus, Massachusetts.
Saugus representative town meeting consists of 50 members; five for each of the town's ten precincts.
At the first town meeting after each election of town meeting members, a moderator of all town meetings shall be propel by the body.
Saugus is home to two newspapers, the Saugus Advertiser and the Saugus Advocate.
Saugus is also veiled by the The Daily Item of Lynn.
Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site Saugus Town Hall Main article: List of citizens from Saugus, Massachusetts "Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Saugus town, Essex County, Massachusetts".
United States Enumeration Office.
https://nps.gov/sair Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site History of Saugus, Massachusetts.
Citizens Committee of the Saugus Board of Trade.
Images of America: Saugus.
Saugus, Massachusetts: Stephen P.
"Saugus Proud of 'Image' Improvement".
"Saugus Adopts Plan E, With Town Manager, 3252 to 816".
"Saugus Elects Town Manager".
Saugus Iron Works: The Roland W.
Saugus Iron Works.
"New Saugus incinerator to make steam from refuse".
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Saugus town, Essex County, Massachusetts".
"1990 Enumeration of Population, General Population Characteristics: Massachusetts" (PDF).
"1980 Enumeration of the Population, Number of Inhabitants: Massachusetts" (PDF).
"Saugus Adopts Plan E, With Town Manager, 3252 to 816".
"Charter of the Town of Saugus".
Town of Saugus, Massachusetts.
Town of Saugus, Massachusetts.
The Massachusetts Town Meeting: A Tenacious Institution.
"Saugus' Breakheart playing perfect host to 'Furry' recording".
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