Southeastern Massachusetts

Southeastern Massachusetts is a region of Massachusetts located south of Boston and east of Rhode Island. It is commonly used to describe areas with cultural ties to both Boston and Providence, Rhode Island, and includes the cities of New Bedford and Fall River and their respective suburbs.

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Places of Interest

Highlights include Middleborough Historical Museum and Middleborough Public Library.

Middleborough Historical Museum

Museum

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The Middleborough Historical Museum is a museum located at 18 Jackson Street, Middleborough, Massachusetts, and maintained by the Middleboro Historical Association.

Middleborough Public Library

Library

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Nemasket Hill Cemetery

Cemetery

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Nemasket Hill Cemetery is located in Middleborough, Massachusetts. It was set aside as a burial ground in 1662, and is the oldest in Middleborough. The oldest engraved headstone here is that of Elizabeth Vaughan, who died on June 24, 1693.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Middleborough and Carver.

Middleborough

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Middleborough is a largely rural town of 24,000 in Massachusetts. The name is sometimes seen as "Middleboro". Lakeville is a rural town with a population of 12,000.

Carver

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Carver is a town of 12,000 in the South Shore of Massachusetts. Carver once produced more cranberries than any other town in the world and still has extensive cranberry farming. Plympton is a small town of 3,000.

Halifax

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Halifax is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 7,749 at the 2020 census.

Southeastern Massachusetts

Type: Region with 1,950,000 residents
Description: region of Massachusetts in the United States
Category: human-geographic territorial entity
Location: Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.8979° or 41° 53′ 53″ north

Longitude

-70.8534° or 70° 51′ 12″ west

Population

1,950,000

Elevation

138 feet (42 metres)

Open location code

87HFV4XW+5J

GeoNames ID

12216903

Wikidata ID

Q17109860

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

“Southeastern Massachusetts” goes by many names.

Japanese: “マサチューセッツ州南東部”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Waterville and Thomastown.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Beaton - Lebaron Reservoir Dam and Beaton - Lebaron Bog Reservoir.

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