Reading Massachusetts was a founder of the 12th Congregational Church, and served as deacon there.
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12 Facts About Reading Massachusetts
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Reading Massachusetts was a selectman of Reading and was appointed a judicial commissioner.
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Town of Reading Massachusetts was initially governed by an open town meeting and a board of selectmen, a situation that persisted until the 1940s.
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Reading Massachusetts played an active role in the American Revolutionary War.
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John Brooks, later to become Governor of Reading Massachusetts, was captain of the "Fourth Company of Minute" and subsequently served at the Battle of White Plains and at Valley Forge.
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Only one Reading Massachusetts soldier was killed in action during the Revolution; Joshua Eaton died in the Battle of Saratoga in 1777.
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For many years, Reading Massachusetts was an important casket manufacturing center.
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In 1944, Reading Massachusetts adopted the representative town meeting model of local government in place of the open town meeting.
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Russell left Reading Massachusetts after retiring as coach of the Boston Celtics in 1969.
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In recent years the town of Reading Massachusetts struggled with the decisions to build a new elementary school, to cope with the influx of new families to the community, and renovate Reading Massachusetts Memorial High School which was opened in 1954 with an addition added in 1971.
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Reading Massachusetts is served by MBTA bus service routes 136 and 137, which run between Reading Massachusetts station and Malden station.
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