Sudbury, Massachusetts Sudbury, Massachusetts Official seal of Sudbury, Massachusetts Location in Middlesex County in Massachusetts Location in Middlesex County in Massachusetts Sudbury is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
At the 2010 census, it had a populace of 17,659. The town, positioned in Boston's Metro - West, has a rich colonial history.
At that time, the boundaries of Sudbury encompassed (by 1653) all what is now of Wayland (which split off in 1780), and parts of Framingham, Marlborough, Stow and Maynard (Maynard split off 1871). The Sudbury Center Historic District has changed little since 1800.
Ephraim Curtis was a prosperous prestige of the militia of West Sudbury and would lend his name to the town's junior high school.:24 75 Sudbury militia participated in the Battle of Lexington and Concord, in 1775, where Sudbury members sniped on British Red Coats returning to Boston.
One of Sudbury's historic landmarks, the Wayside Inn, claims to be the country's earliest operating inn, assembled and run by the Howe family for many generations.
In August 1925, a Sudbury farm was the scene of a brawl between small-town members of the Ku Klux Klan and Irish-American youths from the area.
In the reconstructionafter World War II, Sudbury experienced rapid expansion in populace and industry.
Sudbury was also one of the biggest carnation-growing towns, with many arboretum operations.
Residentially, Sudbury's 1-acre (4,000 m2) zoning bylaws helped the town maintain a more non-urban character through the 1970s and 1980s, when developments of single-family Colonials and large Capes established it as an well-to-do location.
Commercial expansion was restricted to the town's chief thoroughfare, US Route 20, and momentous tracts of open space including much wetland were preserved in the northern half of town.
As subdivisions of large homes continued to be constructed well into the 1990s, Sudbury became one of the wealthiest suburbs in Massachusetts.
Contrary to small-town legend, the town's ZIP code of 01776 was not specially assigned in recognition of the town's historical connections to the Revolutionary War, as stated to the Sudbury Historical Society.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 24.6 square miles (64 km2), of which 24.4 square miles (63 km2) is territory and 0.3 square miles (0.78 km2), or 1.06%, is water.
The highest point in Sudbury is on the north slope of Nobscot Hill, and the highest summit is Tippling Rock, which commands a great view of the west of Boston and the tops of the Hancock and Prudential buildings in downtown.
Sudbury is bordered by Wayland (the Sudbury River) on the east; Framingham on the south; Hudson, Maynard, Marlborough, and Stow on the west; Concord on the northeast; and Acton on the north.
A larger town, Sudbury also shares a common corner with Lincoln, with which it shares a county-wide high school, Lincoln-Sudbury High School.
Sudbury is 20 miles (32 km) west of Boston, 26 miles (42 km) east of Worcester, and 194 miles (312 km) from New York City.
The region of initial town of Sudbury in 1650 encompassed most of the region inside the present suburbs of Wayland and Maynard and all of the region inside the present town of Sudbury. Sudbury is positioned in easterly Massachusetts, bordered by a several towns: Source: United States Enumeration records and Population Estimates Program data. * populace 1790 1840 Source: Map Of Massachusetts An update in the town's census recorded the populace at 18,192 as of 6/10/2015.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 32.5% under the age of 18, 3.2% from 18 to 24, 27.3% from 25 to 44, 27.2% from 45 to 64, and 9.8% who were 65 years of age or older.
Sudbury was ranked in 2005 as the best town in Massachusetts in which to raise a family. Sudbury students in kindergarten through eighth undertaking attend Sudbury Public Schools, while high school students attend schools in the Lincoln-Sudbury Regional School District, which was established in 1954, integrating the former Sudbury High School with that of the close-by town of Lincoln, Massachusetts.
In 2011, Boston periodical ranked Sudbury's school fitness 4th in the state, in both of its categories(classroom/academics & Testing/Achievement scores).
In subsequent (as well as many before years) Sudbury is perennially ranked as a 'Top 20' Massachusetts school system.
In June 2002, the suburbs of Lincoln and Sudbury began a $74 million universal to build a new high school near the site of the initial building.
The shared Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School (LSRHS) is positioned in Sudbury.
There are four elementary schools in Sudbury and one middle school.
Sudbury has two former elementary schools that were converted to other uses: Fairbank Elementary School is now a improve center, and the central office for the school district.
Horse Pond Elementary School is now the chief Massachusetts State Police Crime Laboratory.
Sudbury's First Parish Church First Baptist Church of Sudbury Presbyterian Church in Sudbury Sudbury United Methodist Church Ralph Adams Cram, architect, resided in Sudbury on Concord Road and assembled his family their own private chapel which is now owned and directed by Saint Elizabeth's Episcopal Church Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company, lived in Sudbury amid parts of the 1920s and 1930s Shaquille O'Neal, four-time NBA champion, 2000 NBA MVP, fifteen-time NBA All-Star, rapper, actor, and current Inside the NBA analyst lived in Sudbury for a brief time.
While with the Red Sox, he and his wife rented a small home next to Willis Pond, Sudbury, for the 1917-18 off-season.
A footnote to the "Curse of the Bambino" claims that Ruth's piano rests at the bottom of Willis Pond in northern Sudbury, near that home (since torn down).
After being interchanged to the Yankees, Ruth bought a home on Dutton Road, Sudbury, called Home Plate Farm.
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