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Massachusetts counties

14counties
4,522historic places
—newspaper titles

History layers

Statewide

14 counties have formation records (oldest: Essex County, 1643). 14 counties have decade population series. 9 counties have nearby NPS units. 14 counties have GNIS places (1,444 cemeteries statewide in this extract).

See each county page for charts, formation parents, NPS sites, cemeteries, battlefields, and HMdb links.

Barnstable County 208 places
Berkshire County 184 places
Bristol County 390 places
Dukes County 24 places
Essex County 493 places
Franklin County 62 places
Hampden County 173 places
Hampshire County 89 places
Middlesex County 1349 places
Nantucket County 4 places
Norfolk County 350 places
Plymouth County 148 places
Suffolk County 350 places
Worcester County 698 places