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Wakefield, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
The land we now know as Wakefield was first settled in 1638 by a small band of settlers from Lynn. The following year, they successfully petitioned the legislature for "an inland plantation," named Linn Village. In 1644, when seven families had settled and seven houses had been built, the Court ordered that the town might be incorporated. At that time, th e village, located near the shores of the "Great Pond" (Lake Quannapowitt) took the name of Redding...
...The town of South Reading was formed in 1812...
...In 1868, after Cyrus Wakefield offered to build the town a new Town Hall, the town of South Reading voted to change its name to Wakefield, Massachusetts...
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Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates - 1812 - Wakefield is incorporated
Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates - Wakefield Massachusetts, 1890
Wakefield is a beautiful and flourishing town of 6,060 inhabitants, situated in the extreme easterly part of Middlesex County, 10 miles north of...Read MORE... 
Baptist Church & Rockery, Wakefield, Mass.
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Haywood Bros. and Wakefield Co., Wakefield, Mass.
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Wakefield, a post-village of Middlesex CO., Mass., in Wakefield township (town), on the Boston and Maine R., 10 miles N. of Boston. The town has the...Read MORE... 
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Baptist Church & Rockery, Wakefield, Mass.
Wakefield, Massachusetts, USA
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Haywood Bros. and Wakefield Co., Wakefield, Mass.
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Main Street, Wakefield, Mass.
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1639 - Wakefield is settled
Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
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1812 - Wakefield is incorporated
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Wakefield Massachusetts, 1890
Wakefield is a beautiful and flourishing town of 6,060 inhabitants, situated in the extreme easterly part of Middlesex County, 10 miles north of... Read MORE...
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1906
Wakefield, a post-village of Middlesex CO., Mass., in Wakefield township (town), on the Boston and Maine R., 10 miles N. of Boston. The town has the... Read MORE...
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