The town was first settled by Europeans in 1661 as Nemasket, later changed to Middlebury, and officially incorporated as Middleborough in 1669. The names Middlebury and Middleborough were actually derived from the city of Middelburg, Zeeland, the westernmost province of the Netherlands. Middleborough was once a large producer of shoes and is still home to the Alden Shoe Company, one of the last remaining shoe manufacturers in America.
About Middleborough, Massachusetts in brief
Middleborough is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. The town was first settled by Europeans in 1661 as Nemasket, later changed to Middlebury, and officially incorporated as Middleborough in 1669. The names Middlebury and Middleborough were actually derived from the city of Middelburg, Zeeland, the westernmost province of the Netherlands. Middleborough was once a large producer of shoes and is still home to the Alden Shoe Company, one of the last remaining shoe manufacturers in America. In 1994 the Middleborough All Stars of Little League Baseball reached the Little League World Series by defeating Milburn-Short Hills, New Jersey, to take the East Region title. In the summer of 2007, Middleborough became the proposed location for a controversial future resort casino, sponsored by the Wampanoag Tribe of Mashpee, Massachusetts. On June 11, 2012, residents approved an ordinance outlawing the use of profanity in public, making it punishable by a USD 20 fine. Many legal experts said the law violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. In October 2012, Massachusetts attorney general Martha Coakley blocked enforcement of the law, saying it was inconsistent with the Constitution, and the town ultimately backed off the profanity ban. According to the U.S.
Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 72.2 square miles, of which 69. 1 square miles is land and 3.1 square miles, or 4. 27%, is water. Middleboro is the second largest municipality in Massachusetts in terms of area, smaller only than Plymouth. It is bordered by Bridgewater and Halifax to the north, Plympton and Raynham to the east, Wareham and Rochester to the south, and Lakeville, Taunton and Tawton to the west. The name Nemasket came from a Native American settlement along the small river that now bears the same name. Nemasket may have meant \”place of fish\”, due to the large amount of herring that migrate up the river each spring. Along the Nemasket River alewife and blueback herring run upstream to the Assawompset Ponds complex to spawn in the spring. The other waterways of the town, including the Weweeantic River, flow into Buzzards Bay, south of Boston and 40 miles south of Providence, Rhode Island. The local Maxim Motors manufactured fire engines from 1914-1989. The company is now the location of the corporate headquarters of Ocean Spray Cranberries, which was founded in the 1970s and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has offices in Cambridge and Boston. The Taunon River, Nemasket river, and two brooks feed into the Narragansett Bay.
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