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   0618247. Website. winchester .us. Winchester is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, located 8.2 miles (13.2 km) north of downtown Boston as part of the Greater Boston metropolitan area. It is also one of the wealthiest municipalities in Massachusetts. The population was 22,970 at the 2020 United States Census.

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   Winchester is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, located 8.2 miles (13.2 km) north of downtown Boston as part of the Greater Boston metropolitan area. It is also one of the wealthiest municipalities in Massachusetts. The population was 22,970 at the 2020 United States Census.

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   Where is Winchester Massachusetts?

   • Winchester is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, located 8.2 miles (13.2 km) north of downtown Boston as part of the Greater Boston metropolitan area. It is also one of the wealthiest municipalities in Massachusetts. The population was 22,970 at the 2020 United States Census.

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   What is Winchester Massachusetts known for?

   • Winchester today (2018) is primarily a bedroom community with a population of over 21,000. [Population Statistics] Winchester lies in the Mystic Valley north of Boston, an area of abundant water which both enabled the cultivation of its land and provided power for the first mills.

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   When did Winchester become a town?

   • For two centuries prior to incorporation, the area which is now Winchester was rural territory lying within Woburn, Charlestown, and (beginning in 1753) Medford. The land was divided into large farms, with a few mills and home industries. In 1850, during its gradual transformation from a village to a suburb, it became an independent town.

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   Why was Winchester named Winchester?

   • Representatives of the planned new town selected the name Winchester in recognition of Colonel William P. Winchester of nearby Watertown, who pledged $3,000 toward the construction of the first town hall. Upon the signature of then Governor Briggs, the town of Winchester was officially incorporated on April 30, 1850.

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4. www.winchesterhistoricalsociety.org › winchester_historyWinchester History : Winchester Historical Society

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   1840 The South Woburn Church is formed, the first meeting house within the limits of present-day Winchester. 1850 Winchester is incorporated, April 30. 1852 The Middlesex Canal closes to business. 1887 Winchester Town Hall is built. 1894 Manchester Field is laid out as a park in the center of town.

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   The first bank, the Winchester Savings Bank, was established in 1871. The large and solid Brown & Stanton Building (pictured left) was built in 1886. An impressive Town Hall was built in 1887. Land which the Town purchased in 1867 for a Common was improved in the 1880s as a public amenity.

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   The Legacy Winchester Project seeks both to preserve and to make readily available the electronically/digitally recorded history of Winchester. At the moment the focus is on video/film only. The posted collection to date (June 2020) includes 26 videos of various elements of Winchester culture and history from 1984 to the present.

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   Apparently, although some boarding houses did operate in late 19th-century Winchester, it had to wait for a hotel until the 1890s. Statutes of Massachusetts, 1852, Ch. 309. 7. Henry Smith Chapman, History of Winchester Massachusetts, p. 264. 8. The Winchester Star, May 31, 1901, William Boynton obituary. 9.