11 Facts About Bridgewater Massachusetts

Bridgewater Massachusetts is located approximately 25 miles south of Boston and approximately 35 miles east of Providence, Rhode Island.

Bridgewater Massachusetts is approximately five miles south of Brockton, 10 miles northeast of Taunton, and 25 miles south of Boston, of which it is a suburb.

Neighborhoods in Bridgewater Massachusetts include Stanley, Scotland Park, Pratt Town, Paper Mill Village, and South Bridgewater Massachusetts.

Statistically, Bridgewater Massachusetts is the 71st largest municipality in the Commonwealth by population, and 110th by population density.

Also, for most of the 1800s and beginning of the 1900s, Bridgewater Massachusetts's economy was largely dependent on the factories located within the town.

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Bridgewater is renowned and known for its iron works factories, one of which is appropriately named Bridgewater Iron Works, and is a registered historical site in Massachusetts.

Bridgewater Massachusetts was formerly governed on the local level by the open town meeting form of government, led by a Board of Selectmen until January 2011.

Bridgewater Massachusetts is led by seven Precinct Councilors, 1 per precinct, and two "at-large councilors", with an appointed Town Manager, Assessor, Tax Collector, for a total of nine Councilors.

Bridgewater Massachusetts Public Library is just north of the town center, and is a part of the SAILS Library Network.

Bridgewater Massachusetts was formerly the site of the well-known, influential Bridgewater Massachusetts Academy, a private high school formerly located on the "Town Common" .

Bridgewater Massachusetts is the site of the intersection of Interstate 495 and Mass.