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Plymouth (/ ˈ p l ɪ m ə θ / ⓘ PLIM-əth; historically also spelled as Plimouth and Plimoth) is a town and county seat of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States.Located in Greater Boston, the town holds a place of great prominence in American history, folklore, and culture, and is known as "America's Hometown".
Plymouth Public Schools is a school district that serves Plymouth, Massachusetts.It operates 12 schools, making it one of the largest town school districts in the state. In June 2021, the Plymouth Public Schools were placed into a state program for schools or districts that disproportionately suspend nonwhite students or students with disabilities.
The geographical regions of North Plymouth, South Plymouth, and West Plymouth are named based upon their relationship to Plymouth Center. Plymouth has one of the longest coastlines of any town in Massachusetts, and makes up the entire western shore of Cape Cod Bay. The town is therefore home to a wide array of beach communities.
Plymouth County is a county in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, south of Boston. As of the 2020 census , the population was 530,819. [ 1 ] Its county seats [ 2 ] are Plymouth and Brockton . [ 3 ]
Town Plymouth Open town meeting 24,284 26.3 sq mi (68.12 km 2) 22.2 sq mi (57.50 km 2) 1635 Middleborough: Town Plymouth Open town meeting 24,245 72.2 sq mi (187.00 km 2) 69.1 sq mi (178.97 km 2) 1669 Acton: Town Middlesex Open town meeting 24,021 20.3 sq mi (52.58 km 2) 20.0 sq mi (51.80 km 2) 1735 Mansfield: Town Bristol Open town meeting 23,860
The town is represented in the Massachusetts Senate as a part of the Second Plymouth and Bristol District, which includes the city of Brockton and the towns of East Bridgewater, Easton, Halifax, Hanover, Hanson, Plympton, Whitman. [15] The town is patrolled by its own full service Police department. [16]
Plymouth is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Plymouth in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. It is often referred to as Downtown Plymouth or Plymouth Center. The population was 7,494 at the 2010 census. [2] Plymouth Center is considered to be the most prominent neighborhood of Plymouth.
Massachusetts shares with the five other New England states a governmental structure known as the New England town.Only the southeastern third of the state has functioning county governments; in western, central, and northeastern Massachusetts, traditional county-level government was eliminated in the late 1990s.