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Attleboro is a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. It was once known as "The Jewelry Capital of the World" for its many jewelry manufacturers. According to the 2020 census, Attleboro had a population of 46,461. [4] Attleboro is the fourth-largest municipality in Bristol County, Behind New Bedford, Fall River, and Taunton. It ...
In pre-Colonial times, the land was the site of the Bay Path, a major Native American trail to Narragansett Bay, the Seekonk River, and Boston.English settlers arrived in the area in 1634 [6] and established the settlement of Rehoboth—which included the modern day municipalities of North Attleborough, Attleboro, Somerset, Seekonk, as well as parts of Rhode Island—from land sold to them by ...
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The area was largely bypassed by the industrialization that spurred the growth in importance of the centers of Attleboro and North Attleborough. Three houses within the district were built before 1800, one of them (the Stearns House at 692 Old Post Road) with a late 17th-century ell.
Attleboro High School is a public high school located in Attleboro, Massachusetts. The school is located at 1 Blue Pride Way. The school has an approximate student enrollment of 1,750 students in grades 9–12. The school's mascot is the Bombardiers, known formally as the Blue Bombardiers and the school colors are Royal Blue, Silver, and White.
For several decades starting in the 1920s, South Attleboro was known for Wightman's Diner on Boston Post Road (aka Washington Street, or U.S. Route 1). [3] [4] The diner started out as a lunch wagon in 1923, and expanded by connecting multiple lunch cars by the Worcester Lunch Car Company and Jerry O'Mahony Diner Company. [4]
As of the census [2] of 2000, there were 16,796 people, 6,932 households, and 4,353 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 1,174.8/km 2 (3,042.3/mi 2).There were 7,133 housing units at an average density of 498.9/km 2 (1,292.0/mi 2).
The team is known as the North Attleborough Rocketeers, formally the Red Rocketeers, The school has a long-standing rivalry with neighboring towns Attleboro High School, with both schools football teams playing against each other on Thanksgiving Day for the past 104 years. [5] Both schools play in the Hockomock League.