Swampscott is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States located 15 miles (24 km) up the coast from Boston in an area known as the North Shore. The population was 13,787 as of 2010. A former summer resort on Massachusetts Bay, Swampscott is today a fairly affluent residential community and includes the village of Beach Bluff, as well as part of the neighborhood of Clifton. It is known for its quiet suburban character and beaches.
Population: 13,787
Latitude: 42° 28' 15.35" N
Longitude: -70° 55' 3.18" W
Quincy Bay is the largest of the three small bays of southern Boston Harbor, part of Massachusetts Bay and forming much of the shoreline of the city of Quincy, Massachusetts. Locally in the Wollaston neighborhood of Quincy it is known as Wollaston B…
Pinebank Mansion was a Queen Anne-style house sited on a hill overlooking Jamaica Pond in Boston, Massachusetts. Built in 1868 by John Hubbard Sturgis, it was the only mansion retained by Frederick Law Olmsted in his plans the Emerald Necklace park …
Park Drive is a mostly one-way, two-lane parkway in the Fenway-Kenmore neighborhood of Boston that runs along the northern and western edges of the Back Bay Fens before ending at Mountfort Street. As part of the Emerald Necklace park system mainly d…
Packards Corner (sometimes announced as Brighton Avenue/Packards Corner) is a station on the MBTA Green Line "B" Branch located in Allston, Massachusetts. The station is located at the corner of Commonwealth Avenue and Brighton Avenue, in the neighb…
North Point Park is an 8.5-acre (3.4 ha) park located on the Charles River in Cambridge, Massachusetts, created as mitigation for the taking of planned parkland for the construction of the Big Dig. The park opened in December 2007. It is part of the…
Newton Corner is a village of Newton, Massachusetts, United States. Newton Corner borders Brighton, a neighborhood of Boston, as well as the city of Watertown, Massachusetts.
Newton Centre is a surface-level streetcar station located in Newton Centre, Massachusetts on the Green Line "D" Branch of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.
Mount Alvernia High School is a private with grades 7-12, all-girls Roman Catholic high school in Newton, Massachusetts located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston.
Mishawum is a passenger rail station on MBTA Commuter Rail Lowell Line, located on Mishawum Road north of downtown Woburn, Massachusetts. Mishawum opened in 1984 at the site of a former station of the same name.
The McCormack Building is a high-rise building adjacent to the Beacon Hill neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts. The building stands at 401 feet (122 m) with 22 floors, and was completed in 1975. It is currently the 25th-tallest building in Boston.…
Route 126 is a north–south state highway in Massachusetts.
Marlboro Airport, (ICAO: K9B1, FAA LID: 9B1) designated (MXG) in Marlboro, Massachusetts, is a public airport currently owned by Sandra A. Stetson, widow of G. Robert Stetson, Jr.
Lowell State College was a public college located in Lowell, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1894 as the Lowell Normal School, it was chartered as teacher training institution for women. The college merged with nearby Lowell Technological I…
The Keystone Building is a high-rise building located in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. The building stands at 400 feet (122 m) with 32 floors, and was completed in 1971. In height, it is tied with Harbor Towers I as the 26th-tallest building in Bo…
Kendal Green is a passenger rail station on MBTA Commuter Rail's Fitchburg Line in Weston, Massachusetts. It has 2 tracks with 1 platform on the outbound side. Inbound passengers board via an asphalt patch that crosses the outbound tracks from the p…
Home Plate Farm was located on 558 Dutton Road in Sudbury, Massachusetts. It was owned by baseball legend Babe Ruth from 1922 to 1926. Ruth had previously rented a modest cottage on Willis Pond while still with the Red Sox. That is where the suppose…
Hastings is a passenger rail station on MBTA Commuter Rail's Fitchburg Line, 13.72 miles (22.08 km) from North Station in downtown Boston.
Hamlin Reservation is a nature reserve located in Ipswich, Massachusetts.