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Acton
Reatly Executives of E. MA Phone: 978-266-0040 E-mail: kensundberg@realtyexecutives.com Serving the Metro West area of Boston. | ||
Ashland
RE/MAX Executive Realty Phone: 508-435-5356 Ashland Mass Real Estate Real Estate covering homes sales in Ashland Massachusetts and other surrounding towns by top RE/MAX agent with 23 years experience. | ||
Billerica
ERA Morrison Real Estate Phone: 978-671-0010 E-mail: topreagent@mindspring.com Serving Middlesex County | ||
Boston click hereBoston is located in the eastern part of Massachusetts on Boston Harbor, an inlet of Massachusetts Bay, at the mouth of the Charles River. The largest city in New England, Boston is an educational, governmental, and financial center and a leading fishing and commercial port. Its industries include publishing, food processing, and varied manufactures. Tourism, much of it attracted by historic sites and cultural assets, has become increasingly important. | ||
Braintree
Agim Corporation Phone: 617-536-5252 E-mail: agim@quik.com Global Real Estate Services | ||
Brookline
Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage Phone: 617-796-6164 Web Site Brookline, Newton, Brighton, Wellesley, Weston, Boston, Back Bay, Waterfront, Jamaica Plain | ||
Cape Cod
Realty Executives Phone: 888-534-4486 Gain access to thousands of Cape Cod properties currently for sale. | ||
Chelmsford
Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage Phone: 978-256-2560 ext. 319 E-mail: krains@theworld.com Licensed Realtor in MA & NH servicing Northern MA & Southern NH Certified in New Homes, and Relocation services. | ||
Duxbury
Hunneman & Co. / Coldwell Banker Phone: 781-934-5367 E-mail: bkiley@ultranet.com Specializing in antique and special properties in historic Duxbury, one of the most beautiful towns in New England. | ||
Grafton
RE/MAX Executive Realty Phone: 508-435-5356 Grafton MA Real Estate Real Estate site covering home sales in Grafton Massachusetts and surrounding communities. Top Grafton Mass RE/MAX Realtor with 23 years experience and numerous national awards. | ||
Harvard
Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage Phone: 978-502-5800 Representing buyers and sellers of distinctive country homes, farms, and horse properties from Harvard to Princeton. | ||
Holliston
RE/MAX Executive Realty Phone: 508-435-5356 Holliston MA Real Estate Real Estate covering homes sales in Holliston Massachusetts and other surrounding towns by top RE/MAX agent with 23 years experience. | ||
Leominster
RE/MAX Property Promotions Phone: 978-847-0846 Leominster Real Estate Serving Leominster, Westminster, Gardner, Fitchburg Princeton and North Central Massachuetts communities. | ||
Medway
RE/MAX Executive Realty Phone: 508-435-5356 Medway MA Real Estate Real Estate covering homes sales in Medway Massachusetts and other surrounding towns by top RE/MAX agent with 23 years experience. | ||
Milford
RE/MAX Executive Realty Phone: 508-435-5356 Milford Mass Real Estate Real Estate covering homes sales in Milford Massachusetts and other surrounding towns by top RE/MAX agent with 23 years experience. | ||
Natick
RE/MAX Executive Realty Phone: 508-397-6081 Web Site Natick real estate, Framingham real estate, Wayland real estate, also real estate in Ashland, Wellesley, Hopkinton, Holliston, Boston Metrowest, Norfolk and Middlesex County. Jon Treon helping to find and buy the home of your dreams. | ||
Provincetown
Century 21- Shoreland Phone: 508-487-6002 Provincetown Real Estate Real Estate sales in Provincetown, Truro, Wellfleet and Cape Cod. | ||
Quincy
Century 21 Network Phone: 617-773-7676 E-mail: HouseC21@aol.com Real Estate and Relocation Services. Covering the entire South Shore area of Massachusetts. Community and School Information. | ||
Southboro
RE/MAX Executive Realty Phone: 508-435-5356 Southboro MA Real Estate Real Estate covering homes sales in Southboro Massachusetts and other surrounding towns by top RE/MAX agent with 23 years experience. | ||
Sudbury
Coldwell Banker/Hunneman and Company Phone: 508-358-5131 E-mail: sharon@ma.ultranet.com Web Site Live comfortably in this high end suburb while commuting a short distance to the city of Boston. Enjoy your privacy or find a neighborhood. | ||
Westboro
RE/MAX Executive Realty Phone: 508-435-5356 Westboro Mass Real Estate Real Estate covering homes sales in Westboro Massachusetts and other surrounding towns by top RE/MAX agent with 23 years experience. | ||
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Specialty crops are the hallmark of Massachusetts agriculture: horticultural products, cranberries, dairy products, apples, corn, potatoes, butternut squash, cabbage, pumpkins, beans, and tobacco. Oats and hay are widely grown in conjunction with dairying. Although dairying is found throughout the state, the highest concentrations of dairy farms are in southeastern and northwestern Massachusetts and in Worcester County. Cranberries are grown in Plymouth and Bristol counties and on Cape Cod. Horticulture—the growing of plants and shrubs for landscaping and of flowers for the wholesale market—and cranberry growing are the state’s most valuable agricultural activities. Massachusetts is a leading state in the processing of frozen fish, and its commercial fish catch was worth $260 million in 1999. Fishing crews work both the nearby coastal waters and more distant fishing banks, including the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and Georges Bank off Cape Cod. In recent years federal regulations have greatly restricted the catch of cod, flounder, and haddock—traditional mainstays of the fishing industry—but sea herring and whiting are still harvested in large quantities. New Bedford, which leads the state in the quantity and value of its catch, is one of the leading ports in the nation for flounder and sea scallops. Massachusetts has one-tenth of the commercial forestland in New England and harvests less timber than Maine, New Hampshire, or Vermont. Its modest forest industry cuts mainly white pines, spruces, oaks, maples, and birches. The wood is used for pulp, posts, piling, toys, furniture, and boxes. Most of the mineral production in Massachusetts consists of sand, gravel, and crushed stone, which are extracted in most parts of the state. Some limestone and marble is quarried in the Berkshires. Clay, used mainly for brick and tile, is found in Bristol, Hampden, and Plymouth counties. Fine pottery clays exist on Martha’s Vineyard and around Andover. Peat, used largely to improve soil quality, is also found in the state, although only in Worcester County. The state’s manufactures have been greatly diversified since the early 19th century, when shoes and textiles were dominant in the economy. During the 20th century the producers of these goods moved most of their operations to states where laborers could be recruited for lower wages. Durable goods, especially communications equipment, medical instruments, monitoring devices, industrial machinery, and electrical equipment, now occupy the place vacated by these soft goods. Defense and the space age increased research and manufacturing in the areas of electronics, instruments, and nuclear energy. The high-technology industries became very important to the economy in the mid-1970s. By the late 1980s about two-fifths of the state’s total manufacturing labor force, or 245,000 people, were working for firms specializing in high-technology items, such as word processors and computer parts. In contrast, only about 100,000 people worked in high-technology companies in 1975. The largest concentrations of high-technology firms are found in Boston, Cambridge, and the cities of Newton, Waltham, Lincoln, Lexington, Burlington, and Woburn, which lie to the west or north of Boston along roads ringing the city. The instrument industry is the leading source of personal income from manufacturing in the state. Its products include surgical appliances, photographic equipment and supplies, optical instruments, industrial controls, and measurement instruments. Another leading source for personal income is the manufacture of electric and electronic equipment, including semiconductors, telephones, radios, televisions, and printed circuit boards. The manufacture of industrial machinery and equipment, such as computers, rolling mill machinery, special tools and dies, turbines, generators, and specialized machinery for the printing industry, also contributes significantly to personal income in the state. Among the older industries of the state that have continued to prosper are printing and publishing and paper manufacturing. In 1639 the first printing press in the colonies was brought by Stephen Daye to Cambridge, where he founded the Cambridge Press. Publishing is one of the leading industries in the Boston area. There is substantial commercial printing and specialty work such as bookbinding. The state also produces greeting cards and high-quality special papers. For example, the paper used in U.S. currency is manufactured in the town of Dalton. The fabricated metal industry continues to play an important role in the economy, with firms producing cutlery, a variety of hand tools, industrial valves, and small arms and ammunition. Another major industry in the state is food processing, including candy making and the processing of fish, cranberries, gelatin, and sugar. The pharmaceuticals industry contributes significantly to the state’s economy as well. The transportation equipment industry is also important, particularly firms making aircraft engines and parts for guided missiles and space-exploration vehicles. Inland, industry has traditionally located in the river valleys to take advantage of both waterpower and natural transportation routes. The Connecticut Valley cities of Springfield, Holyoke, and Chicopee make up the second most important manufacturing region. Springfield’s products include firearms, precision instruments, chemicals, hardware, and plastics. Holyoke has remained a textile and paper town but the production of electronic equipment and fabricated steel have become important. Nearby Chicopee makes sporting goods and inflatable rubber products. The industrial cities of Pittsfield and North Adams, on the Housatonic River in the northwestern part of the state, have attracted several manufacturers of electrical components and equipment. Until the late 1970s, the Merrimack Valley cities of Lawrence and Lowell were almost exclusively engaged in manufacturing cotton and wool textiles. As the textile industry contracted, electronics and communications plants moved in. Also part of the Merrimack Valley complex is Haverhill, which has specialized in shoe manufacturing and is known for high-technology components. The manufacturing region that ranks third in income generated by industry is Worcester. It processes metals and manufactures industrial machinery, machine tools, abrasives, and plastics. In the same vicinity are Gardner, which manufactures furniture, and Leominster, a leading plastics center. Industrial concentration is also prominent in the southeastern part of the state in the formerly great textile manufacturing cities of Fall River and New Bedford. Among Massachusetts’s oldest cities, these textile centers experienced heavy unemployment and population losses as the textile industry declined. Labor-intensive mills lost their competitive edge and production moved south or overseas throughout the 1970s. However, the apparel industry in Fall River helped somewhat to bridge the employment gap caused by the exodus of textiles. In the late 1970s and early 1980s local textiles changed their focus to specialty niches, thereby turning around the decline in the last 15 years. Textile production is now the largest industry in the Fall River/New Bedford area, followed by needle trades, apparel, and fish processing. Of the electricity generated in Massachusetts in 1999, 82 percent came from steam-driven power plants fueled by coal, petroleum, or natural gas. Another 11 percent came from nuclear power. The state has 1 nuclear power plant, at Plymouth. | ||
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