27 Facts About Lawrence Massachusetts

Lawrence Massachusetts was the residence of poet Robert Frost for his early school years; his essays and poems were first published in the Lawrence Massachusetts High School newspaper.

Lawrence Massachusetts is the Birth Place of singer Robert Goulet who was born Haverhill St in 1933.

The territory which would later be aggregated into the city of Lawrence Massachusetts was purchased from Pennacooks Sagahew and Passaquo in 1642 for the English settlement of Haverhill, and from Massachusett sachem Cutshamekin in 1646 as a post-hoc payment for the lands surrounding the English settlement of Andover .

Incorporation as a city would come in 1853, and the name "Lawrence Massachusetts", merely chosen as a token of respect to Abbott Lawrence Massachusetts, who it cannot be verified ever saw the city named after him.

Lawrence Massachusetts was a great wool-processing center until that industry declined in the 1950s.

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Under the guise of urban renewal, large tracts of downtown Lawrence Massachusetts were razed in the 1970s, and replaced with parking lots and a three-story parking garage connected to a new Intown Mall intended to compete with newly constructed suburban malls.

Lawrence Massachusetts attempted to increase its employment base by attracting industries unwanted in other communities, such as waste treatment facilities and incinerators.

Lawrence Massachusetts saw further setbacks during the recession of the early 1990s as a wave of arson plagued the city.

Lawrence Massachusetts's downtown has seen a resurgence of business activity as Hispanic-owned businesses have opened along Essex Street, the historic shopping street of Lawrence Massachusetts that remained largely shuttered since the 1970s.

Lawrence Massachusetts became home to large groups of immigrants from Europe, beginning with the Irish in 1845, Germans after the social upheaval in Germany in 1848, Swedes fleeing an overcrowded Sweden, and French Canadians seeking to escape hard northern farm life from the 1850s onward.

Lawrence Massachusetts is dotted with churches, many now closed, torn down or converted into other uses.

Germans had a considerable number of churches in Lawrence Massachusetts, including Church of the Assumption of Mary parish formed in 1887 on Lawrence Massachusetts Street, as well as a number of Protestant churches including The German Methodist Episcopal Church, Vine street, organized in 1878; and the German Presbyterian, East Haverhill street, organized 1872 from which the Methodist church split in 1878.

The fanciest men's clothing store in Lawrence Massachusetts, Kap's, established in 1902 and closed in the early 1990s, was founded by Elias Kapelson, born in Lithuania.

Lawrence Massachusetts had a sizable enough Lithuanian community to warrant the formation of both Lithuanian Catholic and Lithuanian National Catholic churches.

Not all immigrants to Lawrence Massachusetts were foreign-born or their children.

Baptist churches included The First Baptist Church, one of the first churches in Lawrence Massachusetts, which was organized in the spring of 1947 and was known as Amesbury Street Baptist Church.

Immigration of foreign-born workers to Lawrence Massachusetts largely ceased in 1921 with the passage of strict quotas against immigrants from the countries that had supplied the cheap, unskilled workers.

Lawrence Massachusetts is on both sides of the Merrimack River, approximately 26 miles upstream from the Atlantic Ocean.

Lawrence Massachusetts is approximately 20 miles southwest of Newburyport, 30 miles north-northwest of Boston and 27 miles southeast of Manchester, New Hampshire.

Lawrence Massachusetts has two power canals that were formerly used to provide hydropower to the mills—one on the north bank of the river, the other on the south.

The highest point in Lawrence Massachusetts is the top of Tower Hill in the northwest corner of the city, rising approximately 240 feet above sea level.

Lawrence Massachusetts is one of Essex County's two county seats, along with Salem.

Lawrence Massachusetts is the site of four road crossings and a railroad crossing over the Merrimack, including the O'Leary Bridge, a railroad bridge, the Casey Bridge, the Duck Bridge, and the double-decked O'Reilly Bridge, bringing I-495 across the river.

Lawrence Massachusetts is the western hub of the Merrimack Valley Regional Transit Authority's bus service.

Lawrence Massachusetts is approximately equidistant from Manchester-Boston Regional Airport and Logan International Airport.

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Lawrence Massachusetts has its own police and fire departments, and Lawrence Massachusetts General Hospital provides ambulance services to the city.

Lawrence Massachusetts Correctional Alternative Center is a regional alternative jail for low-risk offenders.