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Wakefield is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts in the Greater Boston urbane area, incorporated in 1812 and positioned about 12.5 mi (20.1 km) north-northwest of Downtown Boston.
The 73rd most crowded municipality in Massachusetts, Wakefield's populace was 24,932 at the 2010 census. 5.1 List of Wakefield Governmental Positions Wakefield was first settled in 1638 and was originally known as Lynn Village.
The Rattan Works (which made wicker furniture) was established in 1856 by Cyrus Wakefield.
This later interval into the Wakefield Rattan Company and at one time had a thousand employees.
In 1868 Cyrus Wakefield donated territory and cash for a new town hall, and in thanks the town voted to change its name from South Reading to Wakefield.
The first weekly journal in Wakefield was established in 1858.
Is positioned in Wakefield.
Boston Technology consolidated in 1997 with Comverse Technology, a digital telecommunications equipment manufacturer, which later bought the building; Wakefield became command posts of its eventual spinoff, Comverse.
The northeastern part of Wakefield was home to an amusement park, Pleasure Island, billed as "The Disneyland of the Northeast," but the park closed in 1969 after only ten years of operation due to unseasonably cold weather that brought diminishing returns among tourists. In April 1971, a fire burned down much of the amusement park.
The bicentennial of the incorporation of Wakefield took place in 2012.
See also: Wakefield massacre On December 26, 2000, seven workers at Edgewater Technology in Wakefield, Massachusetts were shot and killed by an Edgewater Tech employee.
Wakefield Wakefield The diagram above shows what is to the east, west, north, south, and other directions of the center of Wakefield.
Wakefield is positioned at 42 30 4 N 71 4 16 W (42.501345, -71.071324). Reading, Massachusetts (northwest), Melrose, Massachusetts (south), Stoneham, Massachusetts (southwest), Lynnfield, Massachusetts (northeast), and Saugus, Massachusetts (southeast) border Wakefield.
Route 129 runs through Wakefield as its Main Street.
I-95 and Route 128 skirt the northwestern border of Wakefield as one road known as the "Yankee Division Highway".
View of Wakefield's Upper Common, with Civil War memorial at center right.
Wakefield has two lakes, Crystal Lake and Lake Quannapowitt.
Lake Quannapowitt, seen here, is the larger of Wakefield's two principal lakes, the other being Crystal Lake.
Long regarded as "Wakefield's greatest natural resource," Lake Quannapowitt covers an region of 247 acres (1.00 km2).
Wakefield Common sits to the south of the lake, and is the site of many recreational activities and affairs throughout the year.
Wakefield harbors a climate typical to the Northeastern United States, with cold, snowy winters, cool, rainy springs, cool, sunny autumns, and hot, humid summers. The town received, along with many other parts of Massachusetts, 2 to 3 feet (0.61 to 0.91 m) of snow amid a January 2011 Nor'Easter.
Wakefield also received 27.5 inches (700 mm) or 2.29 feet (0.70 m) of snow amid the February 2013 Nor'Easter known as Winter Storm Nemo, and snow flurry in Wakefield was unofficially reported as 29.0 inches (740 mm) or 2.42 feet (0.74 m) following the January 2015 Nor'Easter known as Winter Storm Juno. Climate data for Wakefield, Massachusetts Historic populations for Wakefield, Massachusetts, 1870 present As of the census of 2010, there were 24,932 citizens , 9,994 homeholds, 10,500 housing units, and 6,547 families residing in the Town of Wakefield.
The populace of Wakefield was 24,915 as of July 2007.
Racially, Wakefield broke down as: A jazz concert on the steps of Lucius Beebe Memorial Library on June 26, 2014, with Main Street in Downtown Wakefield in the background.
Ancestries in Wakefield broke down thus Wakefield Lower Common as seen on July 9, 2010 Wakefield holds annual primary town meetings to discuss the budget.
As it is a town, not a city, Wakefield's chief decisions are made, in the New England style, by a Board of Selectmen.
A number of other matters are handled by different committees in the town, such as the Finance Committee, or Fin - Com, the Zoning Board of Appeals, and the School Board.
The Town Hall homes the Board of Selectmen and the Finance Committee, as well as other town boards and bureaus.
List of Wakefield Governmental Positions "List of officeholders in Wakefield, Massachusetts"
List of Wakefield Governmental Positions Wakefield Fire Wakefield Municipal Gas & Wakefield Police Wakefield Recreation Wakefield Retirement Wakefield School Department Wakefield Housing "Board of Selectmen of Wakefield, Massachusetts", "Town Administrator of Wakefield, Massachusetts", "Stephen Maio", "Phyllis Hull", and "John B.
Dalton as clerk to the Board of Selectmen, and Thomas Mullen as town counsel. The official experienced title abbreviation for the Selectmen/Selectwomen is Sel. Administrator Maio hosts a "Town Administrator's Report" monthly on the public-access tv cable TV station, WCAT-TV (about which more below).
"Finance Committee of Wakefield, Massachusetts", "Wakefield, Massachusetts Finance Committee", and "Fin - Com (Wakefield, Massachusetts)"
"Board of Health of Wakefield, Massachusetts", "Wakefield, Massachusetts Board of Health", and "BOH (Wakefield, Massachusetts)"
The Wakefield Board of Health (BOH) legislates community policy inside the town.
"Wakefield, Massachusetts Board of Appeals" and "Board of Appeals of Wakefield, Massachusetts"
The Wakefield Board of Appeals, alternately known as the Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA), holds hearings on the second and fourth Wednesday of every month and as of February 2017 consisted of five members, Richard O.
"Wakefield, Massachusetts fence viewers" and "Fence Viewers in Wakefield, Massachusetts"
Although a somewhat antiquated position, the town of Wakefield, in accordance with other suburbs in the state of Massachusetts, appoints townspeople to positions of fence viewers.
Cloherty, Michael Nasella, and Michael Delory serve as fence viewers in Wakefield.
"Wakefield, Massachusetts World War II Memorial", "World War II Memorial (Wakefield, Massachusetts)", "Wakefield, Massachusetts World War II Memorial Committee", and "Upper Common War Memorial (Wakefield, Massachusetts)"
The Town of Wakefield tasked a fifteen-member committee headed by Selectwoman Phyllis Hull to oversee the assembly of a World War II Veterans' Memorial on the Upper Common.
"Wakefield Public Schools (Wakefield, Massachusetts)"
Wakefield High School, as seen in December 2012.
Wakefield is home to two high schools: one enhance school (Wakefield High School), and one county-wide vocational school (Northeast Vocational).
Wakefield contains one middle school, Galvin Middle School, and five elementary schools, Greenwood, Walton, Woodville, Dolbeare, and Doyle. It has been preserved and now homes the Wakefield Historical Society.
"School Committee of Wakefield, Massachusetts" and "Wakefield, Massachusetts School Committee"
The Wakefield School Committee oversees Wakefield Public Schools, which is presently headed by superintendent Dr.
Wakefield Post Office Wakefield's Upper Common The command posts of The Wakefield Daily Item Unitarian Universalist Church of Wakefield Wakefield is roughly composed of the following neighborhoods: This commuter rail station in Wakefield bears the name of Greenwood, one of its neighborhoods.
Greenwood consists of nearly all of Southern Wakefield, bordering the Melrose Highlands neighborhood of Melrose to the south, the Horace Mann neighborhoods of Melrose and Saugus to the south and east, and Stoneham to the west.
Although a part of Wakefield, Greenwood is often labeled as a town separate from Wakefield on maps and in atlases.
Woodville consists of much of central-eastern Wakefield.
The West Side encompasses nearly all of Wakefield which is west of Lake Quannapowitt and Crystal Lake.
The East Side, in spite of the name, is not in extreme Eastern Wakefield.
Lakeside encompasses northern-central Wakefield and borders the entire easterly shore of Lake Quannapowitt.
Montrose consists of much of northeastern Wakefield, bordering Lynnfield.
Aside from Lake Quannapowitt and Crystal Lake, many of Wakefield's lesser ponds and lakes, such as Heron Pond, can be found in the Montrose region.
The route 428 bus from Oaklandvale in close-by Saugus to Haymarket in downtown Boston stops on Farm Street in front of Wakefield High School; this bus route runs express to Haymarket.
128/I-95 runs through Wakefield with exits at Albion Street, North Avenue, Water Street, Vernon Street, New Salem Street, and Salem Street.
State Route 129 also passes through Wakefield.
The town is veiled by two daily newspapers, the locally owned Daily Item and an version of the Daily Times Chronicle; and by one weekly newspaper, the Wakefield Observer.
The Wakefield Memorial High School also has its own newspaper, written by the students, recently retitled "WHS ex - PRESS".
The town also has its own tv station, WCAT Wakefield.
In addition, Wakefield Nation provides election coverage and supports small-town charitable causes.
Softball at one of Wakefield's most prominent sports venues, Veterans Field July 17, 2012.
Wakefield has a strong small-town sports fan base and a robust youth sports culture.
Wakefield High School has prominent football, baseball, softball, hockey and basketball programs.
Wakefield High's football team earned a Division II "Super Bowl" title in 1999, and its men's and women's basketball squads won Division II state championships in 1997. Baseball is a prominent spring and summer sport in the town, with two men's semiprofessional teams: the Wakefield Merchants, a member of Boston's Intercity Baseball League (and champions of that league in 1978 and 1994), and a team representing the small-town American Legion post.
Wakefield has many active youth sports leagues.
Young athletes in Wakefield can choose to play baseball, basketball, lacrosse, football, soccer, hockey, dance, cheerleading, and softball, among other team sports.
Baseball Wakefield Little League Basketball Wakefield Basketball Association Lacrosse Wakefield Youth Lacrosse Association Football Wakefield Pop Warner Soccer Wakefield Soccer Association Hockey Wakefield Youth Skating Association See also: List of Registered Historic Places in Wakefield, Massachusetts The town common is the central park of Wakefield, on the southern edge of Lake Quannapowitt.
Below are some of the notable inhabitants or citizens from Wakefield, Massachusetts.
Senator Scott Brown hails from Wakefield.
John Galvin was born in Wakefield and is the namesake of Wakefield's Galvin Middle School.
Lucius Morris Beebe, author, gourmand, photographer, barns historian, journalist, and syndicated columnist born December 9, 1902 in Wakefield (died 1966) David Dellinger, radical pacifist and member of the Chicago Seven, born in Wakefield and graduated from Wakefield Memorial High School in 1932 Israel Horovitz, playwright and screenwriter born March 31, 1939 in Wakefield.
He instead of a several plays about Wakefield, collected in a book known as The Wakefield Plays.
Buffy Sainte Marie spent part of her childhood in Wakefield.
John Anthony Volpe was born in and lived in Wakefield.
Mazzone lived in Wakefield from 1959 until his death in 2004.
Buffy (Beverly) Sainte Marie, folksinger and composer, born in Canada but raised in Wakefield, graduating from Wakefield Memorial High School in 1958 Louis Sullivan, architect considered the father of modernism, born in Boston but lived in Wakefield with his grandparents amid his school years Secretary of Transportation, and Ambassador to Italy; born in Wakefield in 1908 Three Pound Explosion, was the biggest comedy band in Wakefield history.
Was also the first Wakefield artist to be on i - Tunes.
Attended Wakefield Memorial High School and Harvard University before to entering the NFL.
The Wakefield Independence Day Parade was not held in 2013 after leaders of the Wakefield Independence Day Committee resigned. Instead, the West Side Social Club staged a considerably lesser event called a "Home Town March" on July 4, 2013. In April 2014, it was announced that the Wakefield Independence Day Committee would endeavor to stage the traditional 4th of July Parade in July 2015, with another "Home Town March" organized by the West Side Social Club to take place for the intervening 4th of July 2014.
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"Complete Schedule of Wakefield's 4th of July activities".
1852 map of Boston region showing South Reading, later retitled Wakefield A good map of roads and rail lines from Wakefield to Boston and encircling area.
See 1871 Map of Middlesex County Plate 44-45 which shows Wakefield and its roads and rail lines.
History of the Town of Reading, including the Present Towns of Wakefield, Reading and North Reading with Chronological and Historical Sketches from 1639 to 1874.
History of Wakefield (Middlesex county) Massachusetts, compiled by William E.
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