Middlesex County Massachusetts Genealogy and History

County Seat: Lowell and Cambridge

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Middlesex County Massachusetts History

The county was created by the Massachusetts General Court on May 10, 1643, when it was ordered "that the whole plantation within this jurisdiction be divided into four sheires". Middlesex initially contained Charlestown, Cambridge, Watertown, Sudbury, Concord, Woburn, Medford, Wayland, and Reading. In the late 19th century and early 20th century, Boston annexed several adjacent cities and towns including Charlestown and Brighton from Middlesex County, resulting in an enlargement of Suffolk County.

Communities

Most municipalities in Middlesex County have a town form of government; the remainder are cities, and are so designated on this list. Villages listed below are census or postal divisions but have no separate corporate or statutory existence from the cities and towns in which they are located.

Cities: Cambridge (traditional county seat) de jure, Everett, Framingham, Lowell (traditional county seat), Malden, Marlborough, Medford, Melrose, Newton, Somerville, Waltham, Watertown, Woburn.

Towns: Acton, Arlington, Ashby, Ashland, Ayer, Bedford, Belmont, Billerica, Boxborough, Burlington, Carlisle, Chelmsford, Concord, Dracut, Dunstable, Groton, Holliston, Hopkinton, Hudson, Lexington, Lincoln, Littleton, Maynard, Natick, North Reading, Pepperell, Reading, Sherborn, Shirley, Stoneham, Stow, Sudbury, Tewksbury, Townsend, Tyngsborough, Wakefield, Wayland, Westford, Weston, Wilmington, Winchester.

Census-designated places: Ayer, Cochituate, Devens, East Pepperell, Groton, Hanscom AFB, Hopkinton, Littleton Common, Pepperell, Pinehurst, Shirley, Townsend, West Concord.

Other villages and neighborhoods: Auburndale, Chestnut Hill, East Lexington, Felchville, Forge Village, Gleasondale, Graniteville, Greenwood, Melrose Highlands, Nabnasset, Newton Centre, Newton Highlands, Newton Lower Falls, Newton Upper Falls, Newtonville, Nonantum, North Billerica, North Chelmsford, North Woburn, Pingryville, Saxonville, Thompsonville, Waban, West Newton.