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In the early 1630s, a Praying Indian village named Shawshin was at the current site of Billerica, [3] commonly spelled Shawsheen today, as in the Shawsheen River.In 1638, Massachusetts Bay Governor John Winthrop and Lt. Governor Thomas Dudley were granted land along the Concord River in the area, and roughly a dozen families from Cambridge and Charlestown Village had begun to occupy Shawshin ...
Via Massachusetts Route 3A (Boston Road), Pinehurst is 3 miles (5 km) southeast of the center of Billerica, 9 miles (14 km) southeast of Lowell, and 15 miles (24 km) northwest of downtown Boston. According to the United States Census Bureau , the CDP has a total area of 3.77 square miles (9.76 km 2 ), of which 0.04 square miles (0.10 km 2 ), or ...
The U.S. state of Massachusetts has 14 counties, though eight [1] of these fourteen county governments were abolished between 1997 and 2000. The counties in the southeastern portion of the state retain county-level local government (Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Norfolk, Plymouth) or, in one case, (Nantucket County) consolidated city-county government.
Red represents the City of Lowell, Dark Blue represents the Greater Lowell area, Light Blue represent the New England city and town area Division Lowell-Billerica-Chelmsford, Purple represents both. Coordinates: 42°40′00″N 71°20′00″W / 42.66667°N 71.33333°W / 42.66667; -71
It covers the town of Billerica in Middlesex County. [1] [2] Republican Marc Lombardo of Billerica has represented the district since 2011. [3] [4] The current district geographic boundary overlaps with that of the Massachusetts Senate's 4th Middlesex district. [5]
After the 2010 census, the third district shifted from covering east-central Worcester County and western Norfolk and Bristol counties to covering northeastern Worcester County, northern and western Middlesex County, and northwestern Essex county. The old 3rd district area was largely split between the updated 2nd and 4th districts.
There are original fragments remaining in the Billerica State Forest, alongside Route 3, and again north and south of Rangeway Road. From Billerica, the Middlesex Turnpike continued northwest to Chelmsford, and then along the bank of the Merrimack River to Tyngsborough. A small, 1.5-mile (2.4 km) stretch of the turnpike remains in Chelmsford ...
It is the home to Faulkner and Talbot mills and the North Billerica Train Depot. The Middlesex Canal was built through the village in 1783 and the Boston and Lowell Railroad was put through in the 1840s. [1] North Billerica has its own ZIP Code (01862) and post office, which also takes in the village of West Billerica and parts of River Pines.