Boxborough, Massachusetts

Middlesex County

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Boxborough (also: Boxboro ) is a small town ( Town) in Middlesex County in the east of the state of Massachusetts.

The site is adjacent to Littleton to the north, Acton to the east, Stow and Harvard in the south to the west.

The attraction of the city their annual Fifer 's Day in June in memory of Luther Blanchard, a flute player who has been injured in the battle of Concord on April 19, 1775, the first day of the Revolutionary War. Just two months after he took already back at the Battle of Bunker Hill in part, was re-injured and died in the same year his injuries. The festivities in Flerra Meadows in Boxborough usually start with a 4 -mile ( 6.4 km ) road race, followed by a parade, booths with hamburgers, hot dogs, ice cream, etc., music, volleyball tournament, pony rides, balloon rides, fire demonstrations and a flea Market.

In September, an agricultural fair will take place. There is also a local history museum.

Personalities

  • Kevin Kapstad ( born 1986 ), ice hockey player
  • Adil Najam (* ~ 1948), climate scientists
  • Bill Rodgers ( b. 1947 ), Athlete
  • Isadore M. Singer (* 1924), mathematician
  • Bob Sweeney (born 1964 ), ice hockey player
  • Madeline Amy Sweeney (born 1966 ), a flight attendant at American Airlines flight 11

Cities: Cambridge | Everett | Lowell | Malden | Marlborough | Medford | Melrose | Newton | Somerville | Waltham | Watertown | Woburn

Towns: Acton | Arlington | Ashby | Ashland | Ayer | Bedford | Belmont | Billerica | Boxborough | Burlington | Carlisle | Chelmsford | Concord | Dracut | Dunstable | Framingham | Groton | Holliston | Hopkinton | Hudson | Lexington | Lincoln | Littleton | Maynard | Natick | North Reading | Pepperell | Reading | Sherborn | Shirley | Stoneham | Stow | Sudbury | Tewksbury | Townsend | Tyngsborough | Wakefield | Wayland | Westford | Weston | Wilmington | Winchester

Villages: Auburndale | Chestnut Hill | Gleasondale | Newton Centre | Newton Highlands | Newton Lower Falls | Newton Upper Falls | Newtonville | Nonantum | North Billerica | North Chelmsford | Waban | West Newton

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  • Place in North America
  • Middlesex County ( Massachusetts)
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