At the time of contact, the area was inhabited by the Naumkeag people, from whom the land that would become Winchester Massachusetts was purchased for the settlement of Charlestown in 1639.
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11 Facts About Winchester Massachusetts
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Winchester Massachusetts has several major bodies of water, including the Mystic Lakes, Wedge Pond, Winter Pond, and the Aberjona River, as well as several minor bodies of water such as Sucker Brook and Sachem Swamp.
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Winchester Massachusetts has five elementary schools and one middle school, McCall Middle School.
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Winchester Massachusetts High was rebuilt in a different area in 1972, then renovated in 2016.
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Winchester Massachusetts has two parent-led cooperative nursery schools: Neighborhood Cooperative Nursery School and Winchester Massachusetts Cooperative Nursery School.
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Winchester Massachusetts has two "Zone 1" stops on the MBTA Commuter Rail Lowell Line: Wedgemere and Winchester Massachusetts Center.
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In December 2010 Winchester was among 18 Massachusetts communities to earn the "Green Community" designation by the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources .
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In 2011 Winchester was selected as one of four communities to participate in the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center Solarize MASS pilot program.
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Colonel Winchester Massachusetts did not live to visit the town that had honored his family name.
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Winchester Massachusetts succumbed to typhoid fever within months of its incorporation.
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Winchester Massachusetts has a Chamber of Commerce located on the platform of the Winchester Massachusetts Center station of the MBTA Commuter Rail.
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