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History of Brockton, Massachusetts, USA

Journey back in time to Brockton, Massachusetts, USA

(North Bridgewater)

Visit Brockton, Massachusetts, USA. Discover its history. Learn about the people who lived there through stories, old newspaper articles, pictures, postcards and genealogy.

     

• 1700 - Brockton is settled
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
• 1821 - North Bridgewater is incorporated
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
• 1854 - North Bridgewater
  North Bridgewater, a flourishing post- village of Plymouth co., Massachusetts, on the Fall River railroad, 21 miles S. from Boston. It contains 8 or...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1874 - North Bridgewater is renamed Brockton
  
  
  
• 1874 - The Brockton Fair was established in 1874.
  
  
  
•  1879 - SMOTHERED IN GRAIN.
  A terrible accident took place in the grain and flour mill of Allis Packard at Brockton, Mass., on the 5th inst., in which A. A. NOURSE, DENNIS LYNCH ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• Brockton became a city on April 9, 1881
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
• Brockton Massachusetts, 1890
  BROCKTON is a very enterprising and thrifty city, occupying the northwest extremity of Plymouth County, and having Stoughton, Avon and Holbrook on...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  1890's ad
  O. A. Miller Treeing Machine Co.
  Brockton, Mass.
  Advertisement
  
• 1895 - Brockton
  Brock'ton, formerly North Bridgewater, a city of Plymouth co, Mass, on the Old Colony Railroad, 20 miles S. of Boston. It has 19 churches, 2 national ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  West Elm Street from Montgomery Street, Brockton, Mass.
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  Huntington School
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•  1905 - EXPLOSION KILLS 53; MANY ARE MISSING. Brockton Shoe Factory Collapses When Boiler Explodes. RUINS BURST INTO FLAME.
  Heroic Deeds by Rescuers and by Pinioned Victims Calmly Awaiting Their Doom.
  
  Special to The New York Times.
  BROCKTON, Mass., March 21. - The city ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  The Baptist Church
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  Fred F. Field Co., Shoe Factory, Montello
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• 1916
  Brockton, formerly North Bridgewater, a city of Plymouth co., Mass., on the New York, New Haven and Hartford R., 20 miles S. of Boston. It is almost...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  ad for Brockton Fair
  Fitchburg Sentinel
  Fitchburg, Massachusetts
  October 2, 1926
  
•  1941 - TWELVE FIREMEN DIE AT BROCKTON. 16 OTHERS ARE HURT WHEN ROOF CAVES IN DURING THEATER FIRE. PRIEST TRAVERSES BURNING BUILDING IN BORROWED HELMET AND COAT TO GIVE DOOMED MEN LAST RITES.
  Brockton, March 10 (AP) - Twelve firemen were killed and 16 injured early today when the snow-laden roof of the 30-year-old Strand theater collapsed...Read MORE...