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    Freetown is a town in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 9,206 at the 2020 census. Freetown is one of the oldest communities...
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    East Freetown is one of two villages in the town of Freetown, Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. Added to the town in 1747, East Freetown was...
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    (/əˈsoʊnɪt/ uh-SOH-nit) is one of two villages in the town of Freetown in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. An original part of the town, Assonet...
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    and the towns of Freetown and Lakeville in the state of Massachusetts. The forest lies mostly in the center of the town of Freetown (about a third of...
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  • Glencoe Freetown, Maryland, now Atholton Freetown, Massachusetts Freetown station Freetown, New York Freetown (East Hampton), New York Freetown, Virginia...
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    in for the highway embankment. In 1653, Freetown was settled at Assonet Bay by members of the Massachusetts Bay Colony as part of Freeman's Purchase...
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    Freetown station is a future MBTA Commuter Rail station located in the Assonet village of Freetown, Massachusetts. It is planned to open in May 2025 as...
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    Island. East Freetown was officially purchased by Freetown, Massachusetts, from Tiverton in 1747, and so remained on the Massachusetts side. After the...
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    the New York Stock & Exchange Board. Preserved Fish was born in Freetown, Massachusetts to blacksmith Isaac Fish and Ruth Grinnell Fish. His extended family...
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    Profile Rock (category Freetown, Massachusetts)
    high granite rock formation located in Freetown, Massachusetts just outside Assonet village and near the Freetown State Forest. Local Wampanoags believe...
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    district serving the towns of Freetown and Lakeville in Massachusetts, United States. The Freetown and Lakeville schools historically existed on two tiers:...
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    18 in Freetown near the New Bedford line.) Route 18 then continues on a generally northerly direction. The highway goes through the East Freetown section...
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  • New Bedford Highway Killer (category Freetown, Massachusetts)
    found in different surrounding towns, including Dartmouth, Freetown and Westport, Massachusetts, along Route 140. The main detective that pursued the case...
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    Road (exit 3). Route 140 eventually leaves New Bedford and enters East Freetown, providing an exit that drops off near the center of the village. Route...
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    Assonet River (category Freetown, Massachusetts)
    River is located in Bristol County, Massachusetts. It flows 7.4 miles (11.9 km) in a westerly direction through Freetown and joins the Taunton River near...
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    Massachusetts (/ˌmæsəˈtʃuːsɪts/ , /-zɪts/ MASS-ə-CHOO-sits, -⁠zits; Massachusett: Muhsachuweesut [məhswatʃəwiːsət]), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...
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    to mean "Falling River" or "Leaping/Falling Waters." In 1653, Freetown, Massachusetts was settled at Assonet Bay by members of the Plymouth Colony, as...
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    Bristol and Warren, Rhode Island were significantly damaged, and Freetown, Massachusetts (present-day Fall River) was also attacked, although its militia...
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  • Apponequet Regional High School (category Freetown, Massachusetts)
    in Lakeville, Massachusetts opened September 21, 1959. Apponequet serves secondary academic education students from the towns of Freetown, and Lakeville...
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    Strawberry Point, Iowa Houghton's Pond, Blue Hills Reservation, Milton, Massachusetts Michigan Civilian Conservation Corps Museum, Roscommon, Michigan Bear...
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  • Mikayla Nogueira (category People from Bristol County, Massachusetts)
    family is mostly of Portuguese descent. She was raised in East Freetown, Massachusetts, and graduated from Apponequet Regional High School in 2016. She...
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    controlled the area of East Freetown, Massachusetts, as an outpost. The boundary settlement of 1746 had put East Freetown in Massachusetts, and in 1747 it was...
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    721-acre (7.0 km2) lake within the towns of Lakeville and Freetown, in southeastern Massachusetts. It shares its waters with Assawompset Pond. These lakes...
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    includes Fall River, Freetown, Rochester, Somerset, Swansea and Westport. On the national level, Lakeville is a part of Massachusetts's 4th congressional...
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    Acushnet River (category Freetown, Massachusetts)
    Pond in Lakeville, Massachusetts. The root tributary, Squam Brook, flows out of Long Pond and through the settlement called Freetown before it fills the...
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    Attleborough, Massachusetts). East Freetown, which was left on the Massachusetts side of the border, was officially purchased by Freetown, Massachusetts, from...
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    The South Coast of Massachusetts (sometimes stylized SouthCoast) is the region of southeastern Massachusetts consisting of the southern part of Bristol...
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    redistricting. This list is sorted by county. Attleboro Berkley Dighton Fall River Freetown Mansfield North Attleborough Norton Raynham (precincts 2A, 3, and 4 only)...
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    Stop & Shop (category 1892 establishments in Massachusetts)
    construction of an anaerobic digester at its distribution center in Freetown, Massachusetts, which now supplies 40% of the site's electricity needs. In July...
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    Northern theater of the American Revolutionary War after Saratoga (category Massachusetts in the American Revolution)
    communities. One such raid led to a skirmish at Freetown, Massachusetts, while others descended on Massachusetts and Connecticut coastal communities. In the...
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