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New England state of the USA; nickname Bay
State or Old Colony area 21,500 sq km/8,299
sq mi capital Boston towns Worcester,
Springfield, New Bedford, Brockton, Cambridge
features the two large Atlantic islands of
Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, former
whaling centres; rivers Merrimac and
Connecticut; University of Harvard 1636;
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),
founded 1861, a centre for training and
research in pure sciences from the 1930s;
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute;
Massachusetts Biotechnology Research Park to
develop new products and processes; Norman
Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge products
electronic and communications equipment,
shoes, textiles, machine tools, building
stone, cod population (1985) 5,819,000 famous
people Samuel Adams, Louisa May Alcott, Emily
Dickinson, Emerson, Hawthorne, Poe, Revere,
Thoreau, Whistler history one of the original
Thirteen Colonies, it was first settled 1620
by the Pilgrims at Plymouth, and became a
state 1788.