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Massachusetts State Facts

Here are some Massachusetts fun facts you probably didn't know about:

1. 552 original documents pertaining to the Salem witch trials of 1692 have been preserved and are still stored by the Peabody Essex Museum.
2. Boston built the first subway system in the United States in 1897.
3. There is a house in Rockport built entirely of newspaper.
4. The American industrial revolution began in Lowell. Lowell was America's first planned industrial city.
5. 1891: The first basketball game was played in Springfield.
6. The visible portion of Plymouth Rock is a lumpy fragment of glacial moraine with the date "1620" cut into its surface. After being broken and dragged through the town of Plymouth by ox teams used to inspire Revolutionaries, and reverently gouged and scraped by 19th-century souvenir hunters, it is now at rest near the head of Plymouth Harbor.
7. Harvard was the first college established in North America. Harvard was founded in 1636. Because of Harvard's size there is no universal mailing address that will work for every office at the University.

Other Massachusetts state facts:

• Massachusetts State Tree: American Elm
• Massachusetts State Flower: Mayflower
• Massachusetts State Bird: Chickadee

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