Chelmsford
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town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Massachusetts
- County
- Middlesex
- Region
- New England
- Named after
- Chelmsford, Essex
- Type
- Representative town meeting
- Select board
- Erin Drew, Chair Patrick J. Maloney, Vice Chair Aaron D. Cunningham, Clerk Pat Wojtas Jeffrey A. Hardy
- Town manager
- Paul E. Cohen
- Total
- 23.1 sq mi (59.8 km )
- Land
- 22.4 sq mi (58.0 km )
- Water
- 0.69 sq mi (1.8 km )
- Elevation
- 246 ft (75 m)
- Density
- 1,625.9/sq mi (627.8/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( Eastern )
- Zip codes
- 01824 (Chelmsford) 01863 ( North Chelmsford )
- Area code
- 351 / 978
- Fips code
- 25-017-13135
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
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Encyclopedic overview
Chelmsford (/ˈtʃɛlmsfərd/) is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
Chelmsford was incorporated in May 1655 by an act of the Massachusetts General Court. When Chelmsford was incorporated, its local economy was fueled by lumber mills, limestone quarries, and kilns. In the 1700s, the Chelmsford militia played a role in the American Revolution at the Battle of Lexington and Concord and the Battle of Bunker Hill. The farming community of East Chelmsford was incorporated as Lowell in the 1820s; over the next decades it would go on to become one of the first large-scale factory towns in the United States because of its early role in the country's Industrial Revolution. Chelmsford experienced a drastic increase in population between 1950 and 1970, coinciding with the connection of U.S. Route 3 in Lowell to Massachusetts Route 128 in the 1950s and the extension of U.S. Route 3 from Chelmsford to New Hampshire in the 1960s.
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