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class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1</span> <span>2010 U.S. Census demographics</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2010_U.S._Census_demographics-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Racial_makeup,_2010" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Racial_makeup,_2010"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1.1</span> <span>Racial makeup, 2010</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Racial_makeup,_2010-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Household_statistics,_2010" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Household_statistics,_2010"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1.2</span> <span>Household statistics, 2010</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Household_statistics,_2010-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Age_classifications,_2010" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Age_classifications,_2010"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1.3</span> <span>Age classifications, 2010</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Age_classifications,_2010-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-2007–2008_demographics" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2007–2008_demographics"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.2</span> <span>2007–2008 demographics</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2007–2008_demographics-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Racial_makeup,_2007–2008" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Racial_makeup,_2007–2008"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.2.1</span> <span>Racial makeup, 2007–2008</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Racial_makeup,_2007–2008-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Ancestry_breakdown,_2007–2008" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Ancestry_breakdown,_2007–2008"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.2.2</span> <span>Ancestry breakdown, 2007–2008</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Ancestry_breakdown,_2007–2008-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-2000_U.S._Census_demographics" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2000_U.S._Census_demographics"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.3</span> <span>2000 U.S. Census demographics</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2000_U.S._Census_demographics-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Government" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Government"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Government</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Government-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Government subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Government-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-List_of_Wakefield_Governmental_Positions" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#List_of_Wakefield_Governmental_Positions"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1</span> <span>List of Wakefield Governmental Positions</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-List_of_Wakefield_Governmental_Positions-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Town_Council_(fmrly._Board_of_Selectmen)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Town_Council_(fmrly._Board_of_Selectmen)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.2</span> <span>Town Council (<span>fmrly.</span> Board of Selectmen)</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Town_Council_(fmrly._Board_of_Selectmen)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Recent_Selectmen_Elections" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Recent_Selectmen_Elections"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.2.1</span> <span>Recent Selectmen Elections</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Recent_Selectmen_Elections-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-2012–2016" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2012–2016"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.2.1.1</span> <span>2012–2016</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2012–2016-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-2017–2020" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2017–2020"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.2.1.2</span> <span>2017–2020</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2017–2020-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-2021–2024" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2021–2024"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.2.1.3</span> <span>2021–2024</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2021–2024-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Finance_Committee" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Finance_Committee"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.3</span> <span>Finance Committee</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Finance_Committee-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Board_of_appeals" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Board_of_appeals"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.4</span> <span>Board of appeals</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Board_of_appeals-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Fence_viewers" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Fence_viewers"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.5</span> <span>Fence viewers</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Fence_viewers-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-World_War_II_Memorial_Committee" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#World_War_II_Memorial_Committee"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.6</span> <span>World War II Memorial Committee</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-World_War_II_Memorial_Committee-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Health" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Health"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Health</span> </div> </a> <button 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class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Education"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>Education</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Education-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Education subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Education-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-School_Committee" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#School_Committee"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.1</span> <span>School Committee</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-School_Committee-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Neighborhoods" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Neighborhoods"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>Neighborhoods</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Neighborhoods-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Points_of_interest" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Points_of_interest"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>Points of interest</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Points_of_interest-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Points of interest subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Points_of_interest-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Places_of_worship" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Places_of_worship"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9.1</span> <span>Places of worship</span> </div> </a> <ul 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vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notable_people"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">15</span> <span>Notable people</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notable_people-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">16</span> <span>Notes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">17</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span 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Tinipong Bansa, Massachusetts) – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Wakefield (lungsod sa Tinipong Bansa, Massachusetts)" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakefield,_Massachusetts" title="Wakefield, Massachusetts – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Wakefield, Massachusetts" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakefield_(Massachusetts)" title="Wakefield (Massachusetts) – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Wakefield (Massachusetts)" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li 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class="ib-settlement-caption">Each row, from left to right:<br /><a href="#Sports">Softball at Veterans Field</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Common_District_(Wakefield,_Massachusetts)" title="Common District (Wakefield, Massachusetts)">Wakefield Common</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wakefield_Park_(Wakefield,_Massachusetts)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wakefield Park (Wakefield, Massachusetts)">Park Avenue</a>,<br /><a href="/wiki/Saint_Joseph_School_(Wakefield,_Massachusetts)" title="Saint Joseph School (Wakefield, Massachusetts)">Saint Joseph School</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wakefield_(MBTA_station)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wakefield (MBTA station)">Upper Depot</a>,<br /><a href="/wiki/Church-Lafayette_Streets_Historic_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Church-Lafayette Streets Historic District">Col. James Hartshorne House</a>, <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Boit_House" title="Elizabeth Boit House">Elizabeth Boit House</a>,<br /><a href="/wiki/Lake_Quannapowitt" title="Lake Quannapowitt">Lake Quannapowitt</a>, <a href="/wiki/House_at_1_Morrison_Avenue" title="House at 1 Morrison Avenue">1 Morrison Avenue</a>,<br /><a href="/wiki/Common_District_(Wakefield,_Massachusetts)" title="Common District (Wakefield, Massachusetts)">Lower Common Bandstand</a> in Winter, <a href="/wiki/Greenwood_Union_Church" title="Greenwood Union Church">Greenwood Union (now Restoration Road) Church</a></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data maptable"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1028600610">.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-cols{text-align:center;display:table;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-cols-row{display:table-row}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-cols-cell{display:table-cell;vertical-align:middle}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-cols-cellt{display:table-cell;vertical-align:top}</style> <div class="ib-settlement-cols"> <div class="ib-settlement-cols-row"><div class="ib-settlement-cols-cell"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Seal_of_Wakefield,_Massachusetts.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Official seal of Wakefield, Massachusetts"><img alt="Official seal of Wakefield, Massachusetts" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Seal_of_Wakefield%2C_Massachusetts.png/100px-Seal_of_Wakefield%2C_Massachusetts.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="99" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Seal_of_Wakefield%2C_Massachusetts.png/150px-Seal_of_Wakefield%2C_Massachusetts.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Seal_of_Wakefield%2C_Massachusetts.png/200px-Seal_of_Wakefield%2C_Massachusetts.png 2x" data-file-width="317" data-file-height="314" /></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption-link">Seal</div></div></div></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Middlesex_County_Massachusetts_incorporated_and_unincorporated_areas_Wakefield_highlighted.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Location in Middlesex County in Massachusetts"><img alt="Location in Middlesex County in Massachusetts" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Middlesex_County_Massachusetts_incorporated_and_unincorporated_areas_Wakefield_highlighted.svg/250px-Middlesex_County_Massachusetts_incorporated_and_unincorporated_areas_Wakefield_highlighted.svg.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="203" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Middlesex_County_Massachusetts_incorporated_and_unincorporated_areas_Wakefield_highlighted.svg/375px-Middlesex_County_Massachusetts_incorporated_and_unincorporated_areas_Wakefield_highlighted.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Middlesex_County_Massachusetts_incorporated_and_unincorporated_areas_Wakefield_highlighted.svg/500px-Middlesex_County_Massachusetts_incorporated_and_unincorporated_areas_Wakefield_highlighted.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1203" data-file-height="976" /></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption">Location in Middlesex County in Massachusetts</div></td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">Coordinates: <span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Wakefield,_Massachusetts&params=42_30_23_N_71_04_24_W_region:US-MA_type:city(27090)"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">42°30′23″N</span> <span class="longitude">71°04′24″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">42.50639°N 71.07333°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">42.50639; -71.07333</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states" title="List of sovereign states">Country</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/U.S._state" title="U.S. state">State</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Flag_of_Massachusetts.svg/23px-Flag_of_Massachusetts.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Flag_of_Massachusetts.svg/35px-Flag_of_Massachusetts.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Flag_of_Massachusetts.svg/46px-Flag_of_Massachusetts.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="900" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Massachusetts" title="List of counties in Massachusetts">County</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Middlesex_County,_Massachusetts" title="Middlesex County, Massachusetts">Middlesex</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_regions_in_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="List of regions in the United States">Region</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/New_England" title="New England">New England</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Settled</th><td class="infobox-data">1638</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Municipal_incorporation" class="mw-redirect" title="Municipal incorporation">Incorporated</a></th><td class="infobox-data">1812</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Renamed "Wakefield"</th><td class="infobox-data">1868</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Namesake" title="Namesake">Named for</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Cyrus_Wakefield" title="Cyrus Wakefield">Cyrus Wakefield</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Government<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Type</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Open_town_meeting" class="mw-redirect" title="Open town meeting">Open town meeting</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Town_Administrator" class="mw-redirect" title="Town Administrator">Administrator</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Stephen P. Maio <sup id="cite_ref-admin_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-admin-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br /></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Board_of_Selectmen" class="mw-redirect" title="Board of Selectmen">Board of Selectmen</a>/<a href="/wiki/Town_council#United_States" title="Town council">Town Council</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="#Board_of_Selectmen,_Town_Administrator,_Clerk,_and_Counsel">See below…</a></i></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Town_clerk" class="mw-redirect" title="Town clerk">Town Clerk</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Betsy Sheeran<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Clerk to the Board of Selectmen</th><td class="infobox-data">Sherri Dalton<sup id="cite_ref-BOS_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BOS-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14min_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14min-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Counsel" title="Counsel">Counsel</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Thomas A. Mullen <sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>nb 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-counsel_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-counsel-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-maymin_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-maymin-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-junmin_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-junmin-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Area<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">20.5 km<sup>2</sup> (7.9 sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Land</th><td class="infobox-data">19.3 km<sup>2</sup> (7.5 sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Water</th><td class="infobox-data">1.1 km<sup>2</sup> (0.4 sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Elevation<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th><td class="infobox-data">30 m (100 ft)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Population<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><span class="nowrap"> </span>(2020)</div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">27,090</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Density</th><td class="infobox-data">1,300/km<sup>2</sup> (3,400/sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Demonym" title="Demonym">Demonym</a><div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th><td class="infobox-data">Wakefieldian</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Time_zone" title="Time zone">Time zone</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC-5" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC-5">UTC-5</a> (<a href="/wiki/Eastern_Standard_Time_Zone" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern Standard Time Zone">Eastern</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"> • Summer (<a href="/wiki/Daylight_saving_time" title="Daylight saving time">DST</a>)</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC-4" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC-4">UTC-4</a> (<a href="/wiki/Eastern_Standard_Time_Zone" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern Standard Time Zone">Eastern</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">ZIP code</th><td class="infobox-data adr"><div class="postal-code">01880</div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Telephone_numbering_plan" title="Telephone numbering plan">Area code</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Area_code_339" class="mw-redirect" title="Area code 339">339</a> / <a href="/wiki/Area_code_781" class="mw-redirect" title="Area code 781">781</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Federal_Information_Processing_Standard" class="mw-redirect" title="Federal Information Processing Standard">FIPS code</a></th><td class="infobox-data">25-72215</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Geographic_Names_Information_System" title="Geographic Names Information System">GNIS</a> feature ID</th><td class="infobox-data">0619410</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.wakefield.ma.us/">http://www.wakefield<br />.ma.us/</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235611614">.mw-parser-output .spoken-wikipedia{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);margin:0.5em 0;padding:0.2em;line-height:1.5em;font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .spoken-wikipedia-header{text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .spoken-wikipedia-listen-to{font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .spoken-wikipedia-files{text-align:center;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:0.4em}.mw-parser-output .spoken-wikipedia-icon{float:left;margin-left:5px;margin-top:10px}.mw-parser-output .spoken-wikipedia-disclaimer{margin-left:60px;margin-top:10px;font-size:95%;line-height:1.4em}.mw-parser-output .spoken-wikipedia-footer{margin-top:10px;text-align:center}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .spoken-wikipedia{width:20em;float:right;clear:right;margin-left:1em}}</style><div class="spoken-wikipedia noprint haudio"><div class="spoken-wikipedia-header"><span class="spoken-wikipedia-listen-to">Listen to this article</span> (<span class="duration"><span class="min">30</span> minutes</span>)</div><div class="spoken-wikipedia-files"><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_0" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="200" style="width:200px;" data-durationhint="1801" data-mwtitle="Wakefield,_Massachusetts.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/Wakefield%2C_Massachusetts.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/93/Wakefield%2C_Massachusetts.ogg/Wakefield%2C_Massachusetts.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span><figcaption></figcaption></figure> </div><div class="spoken-wikipedia-icon"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Spoken Wikipedia"><img alt="Spoken Wikipedia icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Sound-icon.svg/45px-Sound-icon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="45" height="34" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Sound-icon.svg/68px-Sound-icon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Sound-icon.svg/90px-Sound-icon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="96" /></span></span></div><div class="spoken-wikipedia-disclaimer"><a href="/wiki/File:Wakefield,_Massachusetts.ogg" title="File:Wakefield, Massachusetts.ogg">This audio file</a> was created from a revision of this article dated 15 June 2013<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2013-06-15</span>)</span>, and does not reflect subsequent edits.</div><div class="spoken-wikipedia-footer">(<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Media_help" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Media help">Audio help</a> · <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Spoken_articles" title="Wikipedia:Spoken articles">More spoken articles</a>)</div></div> <p><b>Wakefield</b> is a <a href="/wiki/New_England_town" title="New England town">town</a> in <a href="/wiki/Middlesex_County,_Massachusetts" title="Middlesex County, Massachusetts">Middlesex County</a>, <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a>, United States, in the <a href="/wiki/Greater_Boston" title="Greater Boston">greater Boston metropolitan area</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Municipal_corporation" title="Municipal corporation">incorporated</a> in <a href="/wiki/1812_in_the_United_States" title="1812 in the United States">1812</a> and located about 12.5 mi (20.1 km) north-northwest of <a href="/wiki/Financial_District,_Boston" title="Financial District, Boston">Downtown Boston</a>. Wakefield's population was 27,090 at the <a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_Census" class="mw-redirect" title="2020 United States Census">2020 census</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Wakefield offers an assortment of activities around the local lake, <a href="/wiki/Lake_Quannapowitt" title="Lake Quannapowitt">Lake Quannapowitt</a>. </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886046785">.mw-parser-output .toclimit-2 .toclevel-1 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-3 .toclevel-2 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-4 .toclevel-3 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-5 .toclevel-4 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-6 .toclevel-5 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-7 .toclevel-6 ul{display:none}</style><div class="toclimit-3"><meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield,_Massachusetts&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Wakefield was first settled in 1638 and was originally known as Lynn Village. It officially separated from <a href="/wiki/Lynn,_Massachusetts" title="Lynn, Massachusetts">Lynn</a> and incorporated as Reading in 1644 when the first church (First Parish Congregational Church) and the first mill were established. This first corn mill was built on the Mill River on Water Street, and later small saw mills were built on the Mill River and the <a href="/wiki/Saugus_River" title="Saugus River">Saugus River</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Parker_(deacon)" title="Thomas Parker (deacon)">Thomas Parker</a> (1609–1683) was one of the founders of Reading, and his home was in what is now downtown Wakefield (on the east side of Crescent Street where it intersects Princess Street). He also was a founder of the 12th Congregational Church (now the First Parish Congregational Church), and served as deacon there.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was a selectman of Reading and was appointed a judicial commissioner.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There is evidence that Parker was "conspicuous in naming the town" and that he was related to the Parker family of <a href="/wiki/Little_Norton" class="mw-redirect" title="Little Norton">Little Norton</a>, England, who owned land by the name of Ryddinge.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The old parish church became known as the Old or South Parish when in 1713 the North Parish was established. This North Parish later became the town of <a href="/wiki/North_Reading,_Massachusetts" title="North Reading, Massachusetts">North Reading</a>. In 1769 the West Parish was established. In 1812 the Old or South Parish of Reading separated from <a href="/wiki/Reading,_Massachusetts" title="Reading, Massachusetts">Reading</a> and was officially incorporated as South Reading. At the time it was spelled <i>South Redding</i>, not <i>South Reading</i>. </p><p>The railroad was chartered and built in 1844 between <a href="/wiki/Wilmington,_Massachusetts" title="Wilmington, Massachusetts">Wilmington</a> and <a href="/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a>. This later became the main line of the <a href="/wiki/Boston_and_Maine_Railroad" title="Boston and Maine Railroad">Boston and Maine Railroad</a>. The Boston and Maine Foundry was built in 1854 and was later reincorporated as the Smith and Anthony Stove Company. The Boston Ice Company cut and shipped ice from <a href="/wiki/Lake_Quannapowitt" title="Lake Quannapowitt">Lake Quannapowitt</a> starting in 1851. </p><p>The Rattan Works (which made wicker furniture) was established in 1856 by <a href="/wiki/Cyrus_Wakefield" title="Cyrus Wakefield">Cyrus Wakefield</a>. This later grew into the <a href="/wiki/Wakefield_Rattan_Company" title="Wakefield Rattan Company">Wakefield Rattan Company</a> and at one time had a thousand employees. In 1868 Cyrus Wakefield donated land and money for a new town hall, and in thanks the town voted to change its name from South Reading to Wakefield. The town hall, currently named for William J. Lee,<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is located at 1 Lafayette Street.<sup id="cite_ref-BOS_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BOS-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-townhall_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-townhall-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1856 the South Reading Public Library was established, which later became the Beebe Town Library. In 1923, the <a href="/wiki/Lucius_Beebe_Memorial_Library" title="Lucius Beebe Memorial Library">Lucius Beebe Memorial Library</a> was built and established by Junius Beebe, the son of Lucius Beebe (1810–1884).<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The first weekly newspaper in Wakefield was established in 1858. </p><p>One of the oldest and largest manufacturers of flying <a href="/wiki/Model_airplane" class="mw-redirect" title="Model airplane">model airplane</a> toys in the world, <a href="/wiki/Paul_K._Guillow,_Inc." title="Paul K. Guillow, Inc.">Paul K. Guillow, Inc.</a> is located in Wakefield. The company is particularly notable for its extensive line of <a href="/wiki/Balsa_wood" class="mw-redirect" title="Balsa wood">balsa wood</a> model airplane kits. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Route_128" title="Massachusetts Route 128">Route 128</a> was built along the north edge of the town by 1958, and the American Mutual Insurance Company built its headquarters between Lake Quannapowitt and Route 128. American Mutual had over 1000 employees, most of them commuting to work via Route 128. By the late 1980s American Mutual was in liquidation due to the <a href="/wiki/Woburn,_Massachusetts" title="Woburn, Massachusetts">Woburn</a> <a href="/wiki/W._R._Grace_and_Company" title="W. R. Grace and Company">W. R. Grace</a> litigation. The headquarters building was sold to the Beal Company and was home to Boston Technology Inc. which invented and manufactured corporate voice mail systems that operated on computer systems. Boston Technology merged in 1997 with <a href="/wiki/Comverse_Technology" title="Comverse Technology">Comverse Technology</a>, a digital telecommunications equipment manufacturer, which later bought the building; Wakefield became headquarters of its eventual spinoff, <a href="/wiki/Comverse" class="mw-redirect" title="Comverse">Comverse</a>. </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lake_Quannapowitt_Panorama.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Lake_Quannapowitt_Panorama.jpg/300px-Lake_Quannapowitt_Panorama.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Lake_Quannapowitt_Panorama.jpg/450px-Lake_Quannapowitt_Panorama.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Lake_Quannapowitt_Panorama.jpg/600px-Lake_Quannapowitt_Panorama.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6976" data-file-height="2332" /></a><figcaption>Panoramic view of <a href="/wiki/Lake_Quannapowitt" title="Lake Quannapowitt">Lake Quannapowitt</a> from its eastern shore, looking westward—June 2016</figcaption></figure> <p>The northeastern part of Wakefield was home to an amusement park, <a href="/wiki/Pleasure_Island_(Massachusetts_amusement_park)" title="Pleasure Island (Massachusetts amusement park)">Pleasure Island</a>, billed as "The Disneyland of the Northeast," but the park closed in 1969 after only ten years of operation<sup id="cite_ref-pleasure_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pleasure-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> due to unseasonably cold weather that brought diminishing returns among tourists.<sup id="cite_ref-pleasure_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pleasure-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In April 1971, a fire burned down much of the amusement park. The area now consists of several office buildings and is called "Edgewater Park".<sup id="cite_ref-pleasure_23-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pleasure-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The bicentennial of the incorporation of Wakefield took place in 2012, whereas 2018 was the <a href="/wiki/Sesquicentennial" class="mw-redirect" title="Sesquicentennial">sesquicentennial</a> of the 1868 town name change from "South Reading" to "Wakefield." </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2000_shooting_spree">2000 shooting spree</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield,_Massachusetts&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: 2000 shooting spree"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Wakefield_massacre" class="mw-redirect" title="Wakefield massacre">Wakefield massacre</a></div> <p>On December 26, 2000, seven workers at <a href="/wiki/Edgewater_Technology" class="mw-redirect" title="Edgewater Technology">Edgewater Technology</a> in Wakefield, Massachusetts were shot and killed by an Edgewater Tech employee. The 42-year-old gunman was an application supporter at Edgewater Technology. </p><p>During his trial, he stated that he was born without a soul and that God had allowed him to earn a soul by traveling back in time to kill <a href="/wiki/Nazi_Party" title="Nazi Party">Nazis</a>. However, the prosecution asserted that the killings were motivated by his employer's <a href="/wiki/Garnishment" title="Garnishment">garnishing</a> of his wages to the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Internal_Revenue_Service" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Internal Revenue Service">IRS</a>, as he failed to pay back taxes. He was found guilty of seven counts of <a href="/wiki/Murder_(United_States_law)#Degrees" class="mw-redirect" title="Murder (United States law)">first degree murder</a> and sentenced to seven consecutive life sentences without the possibility of <a href="/wiki/Parole" title="Parole">parole</a>. </p><p>In 2008 this case was studied on the psychology program <i><a href="/wiki/Most_Evil" title="Most Evil">Most Evil</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2021_incident_on_Interstate_95_(I-95)"><span id="2021_incident_on_Interstate_95_.28I-95.29"></span>2021 incident on Interstate 95 (I-95)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield,_Massachusetts&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 2021 incident on Interstate 95 (I-95)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Wakefield_standoff" title="Wakefield standoff">Wakefield standoff</a></div> <p>On July 3, 2021, armed members of the group "<a href="/wiki/Moorish_Science_Temple_of_America#Moorish_sovereign_citizens" title="Moorish Science Temple of America">Rise of the Moors</a>" were approached by police resulting in a <a href="/wiki/Wakefield_standoff" title="Wakefield standoff">standoff</a>, blocking traffic along a section of <a href="/wiki/Interstate_95_in_Massachusetts" title="Interstate 95 in Massachusetts">I-95</a> that runs through Wakefield. 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data-file-height="1704" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/North_Reading,_Massachusetts" title="North Reading, Massachusetts">North Reading</a></td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Lynnfield_Old_Meeting_House.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Lynnfield_Old_Meeting_House.JPG/60px-Lynnfield_Old_Meeting_House.JPG" decoding="async" width="60" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Lynnfield_Old_Meeting_House.JPG/90px-Lynnfield_Old_Meeting_House.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Lynnfield_Old_Meeting_House.JPG/120px-Lynnfield_Old_Meeting_House.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2978" data-file-height="1980" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Lynnfield,_Massachusetts" title="Lynnfield, Massachusetts">Lynnfield</a></td> </tr><tr> <td></td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="North"><img alt="" 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title="Interstate 93">I–93</a></td> <td style="width:33%;"> <div style="white-space:nowrap;"><span class="mw-valign-middle" typeof="mw:File"><span title="West"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Pfeil_links.svg/17px-Pfeil_links.svg.png" decoding="async" width="17" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Pfeil_links.svg/25px-Pfeil_links.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Pfeil_links.svg/34px-Pfeil_links.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="500" /></span></span><b style="display:inline-block; vertical-align:middle; margin:0.75em 1em"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wakefield_common.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Wakefield_common.jpg/40px-Wakefield_common.jpg" decoding="async" width="40" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Wakefield_common.jpg/60px-Wakefield_common.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Wakefield_common.jpg/80px-Wakefield_common.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a></span><br />Wakefield</b><span class="mw-valign-middle" typeof="mw:File"><span title="East"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Pfeil_rechts.svg/17px-Pfeil_rechts.svg.png" decoding="async" width="17" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Pfeil_rechts.svg/25px-Pfeil_rechts.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Pfeil_rechts.svg/34px-Pfeil_rechts.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div> </td> <td style="width:33%"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:BreakheartReservationLowerPondView.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/BreakheartReservationLowerPondView.jpg/60px-BreakheartReservationLowerPondView.jpg" decoding="async" width="60" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/BreakheartReservationLowerPondView.jpg/90px-BreakheartReservationLowerPondView.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/BreakheartReservationLowerPondView.jpg/120px-BreakheartReservationLowerPondView.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="680" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Breakheart_Reservation" title="Breakheart Reservation">Breakheart Reservation</a></td> </tr><tr> <td></td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="South"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Pfeil_unten.svg/14px-Pfeil_unten.svg.png" decoding="async" width="14" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Pfeil_unten.svg/21px-Pfeil_unten.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Pfeil_unten.svg/28px-Pfeil_unten.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></td> <td></td> </tr><tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Stoneham-welcome-sign.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Stoneham-welcome-sign.jpg/100px-Stoneham-welcome-sign.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="70" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Stoneham-welcome-sign.jpg/150px-Stoneham-welcome-sign.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Stoneham-welcome-sign.jpg/200px-Stoneham-welcome-sign.jpg 2x" data-file-width="481" data-file-height="339" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Stoneham,_Massachusetts" title="Stoneham, Massachusetts">Stoneham</a></td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Melrose_city_hall.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e6/Melrose_city_hall.JPG/60px-Melrose_city_hall.JPG" decoding="async" width="60" height="98" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e6/Melrose_city_hall.JPG/90px-Melrose_city_hall.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e6/Melrose_city_hall.JPG/120px-Melrose_city_hall.JPG 2x" data-file-width="215" data-file-height="350" /></a></span> <i><b><a href="/wiki/Melrose,_Massachusetts" title="Melrose, Massachusetts">Melrose</a></b></i></td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Saugus_Town_Hall.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Saugus_Town_Hall.jpg/60px-Saugus_Town_Hall.jpg" decoding="async" width="60" height="87" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Saugus_Town_Hall.jpg/90px-Saugus_Town_Hall.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Saugus_Town_Hall.jpg/120px-Saugus_Town_Hall.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1892" data-file-height="2756" /></a></span> <i><b><a href="/wiki/Saugus,_Massachusetts" title="Saugus, Massachusetts">Saugus</a></b></i></td> </tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="noprint"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><small>The diagram above shows what is to the east, west, north, south, and other directions of the center of Wakefield. Towns with population above 25,000 are in <i><b>bold italics</b></i>.</small></div></div> <p>Wakefield is located at <span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Wakefield,_Massachusetts&params=42_30_4_N_71_4_16_W_type:city"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">42°30′4″N</span> <span class="longitude">71°4′16″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">42.50111°N 71.07111°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">42.50111; -71.07111</span></span></span></a></span></span> (42.501345, −71.071324).<sup id="cite_ref-GR1_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GR1-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Reading,_Massachusetts" title="Reading, Massachusetts">Reading</a> (northwest), <a href="/wiki/Melrose,_Massachusetts" title="Melrose, Massachusetts">Melrose</a> (south), <a href="/wiki/Stoneham,_Massachusetts" title="Stoneham, Massachusetts">Stoneham</a> (southwest), <a href="/wiki/Lynnfield,_Massachusetts" title="Lynnfield, Massachusetts">Lynnfield</a> (northeast) and <a href="/wiki/Saugus,_Massachusetts" title="Saugus, Massachusetts">Saugus</a> (southeast) border Wakefield. Wakefield's borders with Lynnfield and Saugus are <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/coterminous" class="extiw" title="wikt:coterminous">coterminous</a> with the Middlesex County–<a href="/wiki/Essex_County,_Massachusetts" title="Essex County, Massachusetts">Essex County</a> line. </p><p><a href="/wiki/As_the_crow_flies" title="As the crow flies">As the crow flies</a>, <a href="/wiki/Common_District_(Wakefield,_Massachusetts)" title="Common District (Wakefield, Massachusetts)">Wakefield Lower Common</a> is located approximately 10.3 miles (16.6 km) north of <a href="/wiki/Government_Center,_Boston" title="Government Center, Boston">Government Center, Boston</a>, while the Wakefield–Melrose line is located about 7.95 miles (12.79 km) north. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Route_129" title="Massachusetts Route 129">Route 129</a> runs through Wakefield as its Main Street. <a href="/wiki/Interstate_95_(Massachusetts)" class="mw-redirect" title="Interstate 95 (Massachusetts)">I-95</a>/<a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Route_128" title="Massachusetts Route 128">Route 128</a> skirt the northwestern border of Wakefield as one road known as the "Yankee Division Highway". </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wakefield_Common.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Wakefield_Common.jpg/220px-Wakefield_Common.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Wakefield_Common.jpg/330px-Wakefield_Common.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Wakefield_Common.jpg/440px-Wakefield_Common.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4608" data-file-height="3456" /></a><figcaption>View of Wakefield's Upper Common, with Civil War memorial at center right.</figcaption></figure><p>According to the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Census_Bureau" title="United States Census Bureau">United States Census Bureau</a>, the town has a total area of 7.9 square miles (20 km<sup>2</sup>), of which 7.5 square miles (19 km<sup>2</sup>) is land and 0.4 square miles (1.0 km<sup>2</sup>), or 5.56%, is water. </p><p>Wakefield has two lakes, Crystal Lake and <a href="/wiki/Lake_Quannapowitt" title="Lake Quannapowitt">Lake Quannapowitt</a>. Crystal Lake is used as a reservoir for some of the town's drinking water; as such, recreation is prohibited on Crystal Lake. Lake Quannapowitt, meanwhile, is used for a wide variety of recreational activities, including boating, windsurfing, kayaking, and fishing, and is the primary source of the Saugus River. </p><p>In 1847, Lake Quannapowitt was named for the Native American James Quannapowitt, one of the signers of the old <a href="/wiki/Aboriginal_title_in_the_United_States" title="Aboriginal title in the United States">Indian Deed</a> of 1686. The earliest settlers referred to the lake simply as the "Greate Pond" or "Reading Pond." </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lake_Quannapowitt.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Lake_Quannapowitt.jpg/200px-Lake_Quannapowitt.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Lake_Quannapowitt.jpg/300px-Lake_Quannapowitt.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Lake_Quannapowitt.jpg/400px-Lake_Quannapowitt.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Lake_Quannapowitt" title="Lake Quannapowitt">Lake Quannapowitt</a>, seen here, is the larger of Wakefield's two principal lakes, the other being Crystal Lake.</figcaption></figure> <p>Lake Quannapowitt is also home to the oldest inland yacht club in the United States, Quannapowitt Yacht Club, which was founded in 1886. </p><p>Long regarded as "Wakefield's greatest natural resource," <a href="/wiki/Lake_Quannapowitt" title="Lake Quannapowitt">Lake Quannapowitt</a> covers an area of 247 acres (1.00 km<sup>2</sup>; 100 ha). Its outlet is the <a href="/wiki/Saugus_River" title="Saugus River">Saugus River</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Ocean" title="Atlantic Ocean">Atlantic Ocean</a>. <a href="/wiki/Common_District_(Wakefield,_Massachusetts)" title="Common District (Wakefield, Massachusetts)">Wakefield Common</a> sits to the south of the lake, and is the site of many recreational activities and events throughout the year. In 1991, a group of local citizens formed "The Friends of Lake Quannapowitt" to advocate for the lake and to educate the public about this natural resource. The group has also <a href="/wiki/Fundraising" title="Fundraising">raised money</a> for projects that benefit the lake and the surrounding areas. </p><p>Wakefield has been recognized as an <a href="/wiki/Arbor_Day_Foundation" title="Arbor Day Foundation">Arbor Day Foundation</a> <a href="/wiki/List_of_Tree_Cities_USA" title="List of Tree Cities USA">Tree City USA</a> annually since 2001.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Climate">Climate</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield,_Massachusetts&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Climate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Wakefield harbors a climate typical to the <a href="/wiki/Northeastern_United_States" title="Northeastern United States">Northeastern United States</a>, with cold, snowy winters, cool, rainy springs, cool, sunny autumns, and hot, humid summers. During the summers, many droughts occur, and lakes and other means of water supply often go down a couple of inches.<sup id="cite_ref-Wakefield_Climate_Information_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wakefield_Climate_Information-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <dl><dt>Notable recent storms</dt></dl> <p>The town received, along with many other parts of Massachusetts, 2 to 3 feet (0.61 to 0.91 m) of snow during a January 2011 <a href="/wiki/Nor_easter" class="mw-redirect" title="Nor easter">Nor'Easter</a>. Wakefield also received 27.5 inches (700 mm) or 2.29 feet (0.70 m) of snow during <a href="/wiki/February_2013_nor%27easter" class="mw-redirect" title="February 2013 nor'easter">the February 2013 Nor'Easter known as Winter Storm Nemo</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and snowfall in Wakefield was unofficially reported as 29.0 inches (740 mm) or 2.42 feet (0.74 m) following <a href="/wiki/January_2015_nor%27easter" class="mw-redirect" title="January 2015 nor'easter">the January 2015 Nor'Easter known as Winter Storm Juno</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2020, Wakefield suffered significant impacts from two major storms: firstly, on August 24, 2020, the town took the brunt of an exceptionally severe thunderstorm cell that included a <a href="/wiki/Microburst" class="mw-redirect" title="Microburst">microburst</a>. Downed power lines, snapped trees, and a house fire caused by a lightning strike were reported,<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with damage being especially heavy in the town's Greenwood section. Then, on October 30, Wakefield was hit by a "Snowtober"—an unseasonable October snowstorm. The storm pelted much of Greater Boston with record setting snowfall for the month of October, exceeding the previous October high snowfall, in October 2011, by approximately two inches. </p> <div> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible" style="width:auto; text-align:center; line-height:1.2em;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="14">Climate data for Wakefield, Massachusetts </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Month </th> <th scope="col">Jan </th> <th scope="col">Feb </th> <th scope="col">Mar </th> <th scope="col">Apr </th> <th scope="col">May </th> <th scope="col">Jun </th> <th scope="col">Jul </th> <th scope="col">Aug </th> <th scope="col">Sep </th> <th scope="col">Oct </th> <th scope="col">Nov </th> <th scope="col">Dec </th> <th scope="col" style="border-left-width:medium">Year </th></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily maximum °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #DDBBEE; color:#000000;" class="notheme">35<br />(2) </td> <td style="background: #EECCFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">38<br />(3) </td> <td style="background: #FFDDFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">46<br />(8) </td> <td style="background: #FFEEBB; color:#000000;" class="notheme">56<br />(13) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFBB; color:#000000;" class="notheme">67<br />(19) </td> <td style="background: #FFFF88; color:#000000;" class="notheme">77<br />(25) </td> <td style="background: #FFCC33; color:#000000;" class="notheme">82<br />(28) </td> <td style="background: #FFCC33; color:#000000;" class="notheme">80<br />(27) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFAA; color:#000000;" class="notheme">73<br />(23) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFCC; color:#000000;" class="notheme">62<br />(17) </td> <td style="background: #F1F1F1; color:#000000;" class="notheme">51<br />(11) </td> <td style="background: #EECCFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">40<br />(4) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFCC; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">59<br />(15) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily minimum °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #DD77EE; color:#000000;" class="notheme">15<br />(−9) </td> <td style="background: #DD77EE; color:#000000;" class="notheme">18<br />(−8) </td> <td style="background: #DDAAEE; color:#000000;" class="notheme">26<br />(−3) </td> <td style="background: #DDBBEE; color:#000000;" class="notheme">35<br />(2) </td> <td style="background: #FFDDFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">45<br />(7) </td> <td style="background: #FFEEBB; color:#000000;" class="notheme">54<br />(12) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFCC; color:#000000;" class="notheme">60<br />(16) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFCC; color:#000000;" class="notheme">59<br />(15) </td> <td style="background: #F1F1F1; color:#000000;" class="notheme">50<br />(10) </td> <td style="background: #EECCFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">39<br />(4) </td> <td style="background: #DDAAEE; color:#000000;" class="notheme">31<br />(−1) </td> <td style="background: #DD99EE; color:#000000;" class="notheme">21<br />(−6) </td> <td style="background: #EECCFF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">38<br />(3) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average <a href="/wiki/Precipitation" title="Precipitation">precipitation</a> inches (mm) </th> <td style="background: #5959FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">4.36<br />(111) </td> <td style="background: #6A6AFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">3.57<br />(91) </td> <td style="background: #5959FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">4.37<br />(111) </td> <td style="background: #5B5BFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">4.17<br />(106) </td> <td style="background: #6C6CFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">3.85<br />(98) </td> <td style="background: #7171FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">3.64<br />(92) </td> <td style="background: #7474FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.66<br />(93) </td> <td style="background: #7A7AFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.50<br />(89) </td> <td style="background: #6969FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">3.82<br />(97) </td> <td style="background: #5555FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">4.47<br />(114) </td> <td style="background: #4949FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">4.64<br />(118) </td> <td style="background: #5959FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">4.36<br />(111) </td> <td style="background: #6363FF; color:#FFFFFF; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">48.31<br />(1,227) </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="14" style="text-align:center;font-size:95%;">Source: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.idcide.com/weather/ma/wakefield.htm">Wakefield Weather – Wakefield, MA - Weather Data – Normal Temperatures and Normal Precipitation</a> at IDcide<sup id="cite_ref-Wakefield_Climate_Information_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wakefield_Climate_Information-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demographics">Demographics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield,_Massachusetts&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Demographics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_Massachusetts_locations_by_per_capita_income" title="List of Massachusetts locations by per capita income">List of Massachusetts locations by per capita income</a></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236656977">.mw-parser-output .abbr-header{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .caption-purple{border:1px #a2a9b1 solid;border-bottom:none;background-color:lavender}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .caption-purple{background:inherit!important}}.mw-parser-output .table-pale{border:1px #a2a9b1 solid;border-top:none;background-color:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);padding:5px}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .table-pale{border-top:1px #a2a9b1 solid!important}.mw-parser-output .caption-purple{border:none}}</style><table class="table-pale collapsible collapsed" style="width:25em;border-top-width:0;border-spacing: 0;float:right;clear:right;margin:0.5em 0 1em 0.5em;"><caption class="caption-purple" style="padding:0.25em;font-weight:bold"><span style="color:#c60c30;"><i>Historic populations for Wakefield, Massachusetts, 1850—present</i></span></caption><tbody><tr style="font-size:95%"><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px;width:3em">Year</th><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px 2px;text-align:right"><abbr title="Population" class="abbr-header">Pop.</abbr></th><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px;text-align:right"><abbr title="Percent change" class="abbr-header">±%</abbr></th></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"><a href="/wiki/1850_United_States_census" title="1850 United States census"> 1850</a></th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">2,407</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">—    </td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"><a href="/wiki/1860_United_States_census" title="1860 United States census"> 1860</a></th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">3,207</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+33.2%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"><a href="/wiki/1870_United_States_census" title="1870 United States census"> 1870</a></th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">4,135</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+28.9%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"><a href="/wiki/1880_United_States_census" title="1880 United States census"> 1880</a></th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">5,547</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+34.1%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb"><a href="/wiki/1890_United_States_census" title="1890 United States census"> 1890</a></th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">6,982</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">+25.9%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"><a href="/wiki/1900_United_States_census" title="1900 United States census"> 1900</a></th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">9,290</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+33.1%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"><a href="/wiki/1910_United_States_census" title="1910 United States census"> 1910</a></th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">11,404</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+22.8%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"><a href="/wiki/1920_United_States_census" title="1920 United States census"> 1920</a></th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">13,025</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+14.2%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"><a href="/wiki/1930_United_States_census" title="1930 United States census"> 1930</a></th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">16,318</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+25.3%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb"><a href="/wiki/1940_United_States_census" title="1940 United States census"> 1940</a></th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">16,223</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">−0.6%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"><a href="/wiki/1950_United_States_census" title="1950 United States census"> 1950</a></th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">19,633</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+21.0%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"><a href="/wiki/1960_United_States_census" title="1960 United States census"> 1960</a></th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">24,295</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+23.7%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"><a href="/wiki/1970_United_States_census" title="1970 United States census"> 1970</a></th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">25,402</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+4.6%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"><a href="/wiki/1980_United_States_census" title="1980 United States census"> 1980</a></th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">24,895</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−2.0%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb"><a href="/wiki/1990_United_States_census" title="1990 United States census"> 1990</a></th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">24,825</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">−0.3%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"><a href="/wiki/2000_United_States_census" title="2000 United States census"> 2000</a></th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">24,804</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−0.1%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"><a href="/wiki/2010_United_States_census" title="2010 United States census"> 2010</a></th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">24,932</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+0.5%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"><a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_census" title="2020 United States census"> 2020</a></th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">27,090</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+8.7%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"> 2023*</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">27,810</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+2.7%</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);font-size:85%;text-align:left">* = population estimate. Source: <a href="/wiki/United_States_Census" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Census">United States Census</a> records and <a href="/wiki/Population_Estimates_Program" title="Population Estimates Program">Population Estimates Program</a> data.<sup id="cite_ref-2010_Census_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2010_Census-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2000-2009_PopulationEstimates_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2000-2009_PopulationEstimates-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-1990_Census_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1990_Census-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-1980_Census_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1980_Census-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-1950_Census_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1950_Census-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-1920_Census_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1920_Census-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-1890_Census_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1890_Census-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-1870_Census_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1870_Census-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2010_U.S._Census_demographics">2010 U.S. Census demographics</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield,_Massachusetts&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: 2010 U.S. Census demographics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As of the <a href="/wiki/2010_United_States_Census" class="mw-redirect" title="2010 United States Census">census of 2010</a>, there were 24,932 people, 9,994 households, 10,500 housing units, and 6,547 families residing in the Town of Wakefield.<sup id="cite_ref-factfinder2_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-factfinder2-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Racial_makeup,_2010"><span id="Racial_makeup.2C_2010"></span>Racial makeup, 2010</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield,_Massachusetts&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Racial makeup, 2010"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The racial makeup of the Town in 2010 was:<sup id="cite_ref-factfinder2_40-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-factfinder2-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>94.5% (23,573) <a href="/wiki/White_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="White (U.S. Census)">White</a></li> <li>0.9% (229) <a href="/wiki/African_American_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="African American (U.S. Census)">Black or African American</a></li> <li>0.1% (30) <a href="/wiki/Native_American_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Native American (U.S. Census)">Native American and Alaska Native</a></li> <li>2.6% (660) <a href="/wiki/Asian_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Asian (U.S. Census)">Asian</a> (the leading Asian nationalities being <a href="/wiki/Chinese_Americans" title="Chinese Americans">Chinese</a> with 1.1% or 267 people and <a href="/wiki/Indian_Americans" title="Indian Americans">Indian</a> with 0.7% or 174 people)</li> <li>0.0% (0) <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Islander_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)">Pacific Islander</a></li> <li>0.6% (150) from <a href="/wiki/Race_(United_States_Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Race (United States Census)">other races</a></li> <li>1.2% (290) from two or more races.</li></ul> <p><a href="/wiki/Hispanic_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hispanic (U.S. Census)">Hispanic</a> or <a href="/wiki/Latino_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Latino (U.S. Census)">Latino</a> of any race were 2.3% (575) of the population. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Household_statistics,_2010"><span id="Household_statistics.2C_2010"></span>Household statistics, 2010</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield,_Massachusetts&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Household statistics, 2010"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the town in 2010, there were 9,994 households, out of which:<sup id="cite_ref-factfinder2_40-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-factfinder2-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>28.3% (2,825) had children under the age of 18 living with them</li> <li>52.7% (5,265) were a husband and a wife living together</li> <li>3.2% (323) had a male householder with no wife present</li> <li>9.6% (959) had a female householder with no husband present.</li></ul> <p>The average household size was 2.47 and the average family size was 3.07.<sup id="cite_ref-factfinder2_40-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-factfinder2-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Age_classifications,_2010"><span id="Age_classifications.2C_2010"></span>Age classifications, 2010</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield,_Massachusetts&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Age classifications, 2010"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the town in 2010, the population was spread out agewise with:<sup id="cite_ref-factfinder2_40-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-factfinder2-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>5.6% (1,401) under the age of 5 years</li> <li>5.9% (1,478) between the ages of 5 and 9</li> <li>6.2% (1,534) between the ages of 10 and 14</li> <li>5.5% (1,365) between the ages of 15 and 19</li> <li>4.7% (1,176) between the ages of 20 and 24</li> <li>6.1% (1,530) between the ages of 25 and 29</li> <li>6.2% (1,534) between the ages of 30 and 34</li> <li>6.8% (1,705) between the ages of 35 and 39</li> <li>7.9% (1,981) between the ages of 40 and 44</li> <li>8.6% (2,137) between the ages of 45 and 49</li> <li>8.3% (2,066) between the ages of 50 and 54</li> <li>7.3% (1,816) between the ages of 55 and 59</li> <li>6.2% (1,538) between the ages of 60 and 64</li> <li>4.2% (1,039) between the ages of 65 and 69</li> <li>3.3% (811) between the ages of 70 and 74</li> <li>2.5% (633) between the ages of 75 and 79</li> <li>2.4% (607) between the ages of 80 and 84</li> <li>2.3% (581) aged 85 years or older.</li></ul> <p>The median age was 41.9 years, 40.6 for males and 43.0 for females.<sup id="cite_ref-factfinder2_40-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-factfinder2-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2007–2008_demographics"><span id="2007.E2.80.932008_demographics"></span>2007–2008 demographics</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield,_Massachusetts&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: 2007–2008 demographics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The population of Wakefield was 24,915 as of July 2007. The town's population was composed of 11,814 (47.4%) males and 13,101 (52.6%) females. The median resident age was 38.9 years, higher than the Massachusetts median age of 36.5. </p><p>In 2008, the <a href="/wiki/Median_household_income" class="mw-redirect" title="Median household income">median household income</a> was $85,011, about $20,000 above Massachusetts as a whole. The <a href="/wiki/Per_capita_income" title="Per capita income">estimated income per capita</a> was $39,918. The <a href="/wiki/Real_estate_pricing" class="mw-redirect" title="Real estate pricing">estimated median property value</a> in 2008 was $416,592, up from $240,300 in 2000, representing a $176,292 increase. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Racial_makeup,_2007–2008"><span id="Racial_makeup.2C_2007.E2.80.932008"></span>Racial makeup, 2007–2008</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield,_Massachusetts&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Racial makeup, 2007–2008"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Race_(classification_of_humans)" class="mw-redirect" title="Race (classification of humans)">Racially</a>, Wakefield broke down as: </p> <ul><li>96.4% <a href="/wiki/White_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="White (U.S. Census)">White</a></li> <li>1.4% <a href="/wiki/Asian_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Asian (U.S. Census)">Asian</a></li> <li>0.8% <a href="/wiki/Hispanic_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hispanic (U.S. Census)">Hispanic</a></li> <li>0.4% <a href="/wiki/African_American_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="African American (U.S. Census)">African American</a></li> <li>0.01% <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Islander_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)">Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander</a></li> <li>0.8% from <a href="/wiki/Race_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Race (U.S. Census)">two or more races</a>.</li></ul> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wakefield_Beebe_Library_jazz_and_Main_Street_Panorama.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Wakefield_Beebe_Library_jazz_and_Main_Street_Panorama.jpg/450px-Wakefield_Beebe_Library_jazz_and_Main_Street_Panorama.jpg" decoding="async" width="450" height="193" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Wakefield_Beebe_Library_jazz_and_Main_Street_Panorama.jpg/675px-Wakefield_Beebe_Library_jazz_and_Main_Street_Panorama.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Wakefield_Beebe_Library_jazz_and_Main_Street_Panorama.jpg/900px-Wakefield_Beebe_Library_jazz_and_Main_Street_Panorama.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5440" data-file-height="2332" /></a><figcaption>A jazz concert on the steps of <a href="/wiki/Lucius_Beebe_Memorial_Library" title="Lucius Beebe Memorial Library">Lucius Beebe Memorial Library</a> on June 26, 2014, with Main Street in Downtown Wakefield in the background.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Ancestry_breakdown,_2007–2008"><span id="Ancestry_breakdown.2C_2007.E2.80.932008"></span>Ancestry breakdown, 2007–2008</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield,_Massachusetts&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Ancestry breakdown, 2007–2008"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Ancestry" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancestry">Ancestries</a> in Wakefield broke down thus </p> <ul><li>33% <a href="/wiki/Irish_American" class="mw-redirect" title="Irish American">Irish</a></li> <li>28.5% <a href="/wiki/Italian_American" class="mw-redirect" title="Italian American">Italian</a></li> <li>13.4% <a href="/wiki/English_American" class="mw-redirect" title="English American">English</a></li> <li>6.3% <a href="/wiki/French_American" class="mw-redirect" title="French American">French</a></li> <li>5.5% <a href="/wiki/German_American" class="mw-redirect" title="German American">German</a></li> <li>4.8% <a href="/wiki/French_Canadian" class="mw-redirect" title="French Canadian">French Canadian</a></li></ul> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Cost_of_living_index" class="mw-redirect" title="Cost of living index">cost of living index</a> was listed as 121.4, 21.4 points above the U.S. average. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2000_U.S._Census_demographics">2000 U.S. Census demographics</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield,_Massachusetts&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: 2000 U.S. Census demographics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As of the <a href="/wiki/Census" title="Census">census</a><sup id="cite_ref-GR2_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GR2-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> of 2000, there were 24,804 people, 9,747 households, and 6,608 families residing in the town. The population density was 3,321.6 inhabitants per square mile (1,282.5/km<sup>2</sup>). There were 9,937 housing units at an average density of 1,330.7 per square mile (513.8/km<sup>2</sup>). The racial makeup of the town was 96.94% <a href="/wiki/White_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="White (U.S. Census)">White</a>, 0.45% <a href="/wiki/African_American_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="African American (U.S. Census)">Black</a> or <a href="/wiki/Race_(United_States_Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Race (United States Census)">African American</a>, 0.08% <a href="/wiki/Native_American_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Native American (U.S. Census)">Native American</a>, 1.43% <a href="/wiki/Asian_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Asian (U.S. Census)">Asian</a>, 0.01% <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Islander_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)">Pacific Islander</a>, 0.20% from <a href="/wiki/Race_(United_States_Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Race (United States Census)">other races</a>, and 0.90% from two or more races. </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wakefield_common.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Wakefield_common.jpg/250px-Wakefield_common.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="188" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Wakefield_common.jpg/375px-Wakefield_common.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Wakefield_common.jpg/500px-Wakefield_common.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>Wakefield Lower Common as seen on July 9, 2010</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Hispanic_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hispanic (U.S. Census)">Hispanic</a> or <a href="/wiki/Latino_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Latino (U.S. Census)">Latino</a> of any race were 0.82% of the population. </p><p>There were 9,747 households, out of which 30.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 55.1% were <a href="/wiki/Marriage" title="Marriage">married couples</a> living together, 9.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 32.2% were non-families. 26.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.52 and the average family size was 3.09. </p><p>In the town, the population was spread out, with 22.6% under the age of 18, 5.8% from 18 to 24, 32.7% from 25 to 44, 23.8% from 45 to 64, and 15.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females, there were 90.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 87.8 males. </p><p>The median income for a household in the town was $66,117, and the median income for a family was $77,834. Males had a median income of $51,591 versus $39,327 for females. The <a href="/wiki/Per_capita_income" title="Per capita income">per capita income</a> for the town was $30,369. About 1.7% of families and 3.1% of the population were below the <a href="/wiki/Poverty_line" class="mw-redirect" title="Poverty line">poverty line</a>, including 1.7% of those under age 18 and 4.6% of those age 65 or over. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Government">Government</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield,_Massachusetts&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Government"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Wakefield holds yearly major <a href="/wiki/Town_meeting" title="Town meeting">town meetings</a> to discuss the budget. As it is a <a href="/wiki/Town" title="Town">town</a>, not a <a href="/wiki/City" title="City">city</a>, Wakefield's main decisions are made, in <a href="/wiki/New_England_town" title="New England town">the New England style</a>, by a <a href="/wiki/Board_of_Selectmen" class="mw-redirect" title="Board of Selectmen">Board of Selectmen</a>, which works in collaboration with a <a href="/wiki/Town_administrator" class="mw-redirect" title="Town administrator">town administrator</a>. <b>Stephen Maio</b> is the <b><a href="/wiki/Town_administrator" class="mw-redirect" title="Town administrator">town administrator</a></b> as of 2024.<sup id="cite_ref-BOS_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BOS-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Administrator Maio hosts a "Town Administrator's Report" monthly on the <a href="/wiki/Public-access_television" title="Public-access television">public-access television</a> <a href="/wiki/Cable_TV" class="mw-redirect" title="Cable TV">cable TV</a> station, WCAT-TV<sup id="cite_ref-tareport_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tareport-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (about which more <a href="#Media">below</a>). </p><p>A number of other matters are handled by different committees in the town, such as the <a href="/wiki/Board_of_Finance_(New_England)" title="Board of Finance (New England)">Finance Committee</a>, or FinCom, the <a href="/wiki/Zoning_Board_of_Appeals" class="mw-redirect" title="Zoning Board of Appeals">Zoning Board of Appeals</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/School_Board" class="mw-redirect" title="School Board">School Board</a>. The Town Hall houses the office of the Town Administrator and the Finance Committee, as well as other town boards and offices. Board of Selectmen/Town Council meetings, formerly held at the Town Hall, have in recent years moved to the studios of WCAT-TV. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="List_of_Wakefield_Governmental_Positions">List of Wakefield Governmental Positions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield,_Massachusetts&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: List of Wakefield Governmental Positions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="toccolours collapsible collapsed" style="font-size: 100%; text-align:center; float:right;"> <caption><b>List of Wakefield Governmental Positions</b><br /> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Title</th> <th>Name </th></tr> <tr bgcolor="#cae1ff"> <td>Town Accountant</td> <td>Kevin Gill </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#f0f8ff"> <td>Animal Control Officer</td> <td>Kenneth Stache </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#cae1ff"> <td>Assessor</td> <td>Victor Santaniello </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#f0f8ff"> <td>Beebe Library<br />Director</td> <td>Catherine McDonald </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#cae1ff"> <td>Health Director</td> <td>Ruth Clay </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#f0f8ff"> <td>Building Inspector</td> <td>Benjamin DeChristoforo </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#cae1ff"> <td>Cemetery Division</td> <td rowspan="3">Dennis Fazio </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#f0f8ff"> <td>Forestry Division </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#cae1ff"> <td>Parks Division </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#cae1ff"> <td>Community and<br />Economic Development<br />Manager</td> <td>Erin Kokinda </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#f0f8ff"> <td>Council on Aging<br />Executive Director</td> <td>Judy Luciano </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#cae1ff"> <td>DPW Director</td> <td>Joseph Conway </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#f0f8ff"> <td>Emergency<br />Management Director</td> <td>Thomas P. Walsh Jr. </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#cae1ff"> <td>Human<br />Resources Manager</td> <td>Amy Forziati </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#f0f8ff"> <td>Wakefield Fire<br />Department (WFD) Chief</td> <td>Michael Sullivan </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#cae1ff"> <td>Fleet Division</td> <td>Andrew Chankhour </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#cae1ff"> <td>Information Technology<br />Department Director</td> <td>Todd Bowden </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#f0f8ff"> <td>Wakefield Municipal Gas &<br />Light Department<br />(WMGLD) Manager</td> <td>Peter Dion </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#cae1ff"> <td>Parking Clerk</td> <td>Kenneth Stache </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#f0f8ff"> <td>Wakefield Police<br />Department (WPD) Chief</td> <td>Steven Skory </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#cae1ff"> <td>Wakefield Recreation<br />Department Director</td> <td>Dan McGrath </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#f0f8ff"> <td>Wakefield Retirement<br />Board Administrator</td> <td>Cathy Cheek </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#cae1ff"> <td><b>Wakefield Public Schools</b><br />Superintendent<br />Assistant Superintendent</td> <td>Douglas Lyons<br />Kara Mauro<sup id="cite_ref-Mauro_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mauro-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#fof8ff"> <td>Tax Collector</td> <td>Kathleen Kelly </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#cae1ff"> <td>Town Administrator</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Stephen_P._Maio" class="mw-redirect" title="Stephen P. Maio">Stephen P. Maio</a> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#cae1ff"> <td>Town Clerk</td> <td>Betsy Sheeran </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#fof8ff"> <td>Town Counsel</td> <td>Thomas Mullen </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#cae1ff"> <td>Town Planner</td> <td>Paul Reavis </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#fof8ff"> <td>Town Treasurer</td> <td>John J. McCarthy, Jr. </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#cae1ff"> <td>Veterans' Services</td> <td>Dave Mangan </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#fof8ff"> <td>Wakefield Housing<br />Authority</td> <td>Sandra Gass </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#cae1ff"> <td>Water and Sewer Supervisor</td> <td>Steven Fitzpatrick </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2">As of January 2024 </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2">Sources:<sup id="cite_ref-depts_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-depts-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-supers_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-supers-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Town_Council_(fmrly._Board_of_Selectmen)"><span id="Town_Council_.28fmrly._Board_of_Selectmen.29"></span>Town Council (<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1038841319">.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}</style><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="formerly">fmrly.</span> Board of Selectmen)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield,_Massachusetts&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Town Council (fmrly. Board of Selectmen)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <b><a href="/wiki/Board_of_Selectmen" class="mw-redirect" title="Board of Selectmen">Board of Selectmen</a></b> was the name of Wakefield's primary governing body until it changed its name to the "<b><a href="/wiki/Town_council#United_States" title="Town council">Town Council</a></b>"<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in 2018 in an effort to maintain <a href="/wiki/Gender_neutrality" title="Gender neutrality">gender neutrality</a>. Since that time, "Selectmen" have been called "Councilors." A single Councilor term lasts for three years; barring special elections, annual town elections take place each April. The Town Council consisted of, as of April 2024, Chair Jonathan Chines, Vice-Chair Michael J. McLane, Mehreen N. Butt, John F. Carney, Anne P. Danehy, Edward F. Dombroski, Jr., and Robert E. Vincent.<sup id="cite_ref-BOS_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BOS-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-counsel_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-counsel-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-maymin_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-maymin-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-junmin_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-junmin-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with Sherri A. Dalton as clerk to the Town Council,<sup id="cite_ref-BOS_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BOS-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13min_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13min-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Thomas Mullen as town <a href="/wiki/Counsel" title="Counsel">counsel</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-BOS_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BOS-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-counsel_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-counsel-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-maymin_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-maymin-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-junmin_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-junmin-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Recent_Selectmen_Elections">Recent Selectmen Elections</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield,_Massachusetts&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Recent Selectmen Elections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="2012–2016"><span id="2012.E2.80.932016"></span>2012–2016</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield,_Massachusetts&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: 2012–2016"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1256386598">.mw-parser-output .cot-header-mainspace{background:#F0F2F5;color:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cot-header-other{background:#CCFFCC;color:inherit}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cot-header-mainspace{background:#14181F;color:inherit}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cot-header-other{background:#003500;color:inherit}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cot-header-mainspace{background:#14181F;color:inherit}html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cot-header-other{background:#003500;color:inherit}}</style> <div style="margin-left:0"> <table class="mw-collapsible mw-archivedtalk mw-collapsed" style="color:inherit; background: transparent; text-align: left; border: 1px solid Silver; margin: 0.2em auto auto; width:100%; clear: both; padding: 1px;"> <tbody><tr> <th class="cot-header-mainspace" style="; font-size:87%; padding:0.2em 0.3em; text-align:center;"><div style="font-size:115%;margin:0 4em">2012–2016 Selectmen Elections</div> </th></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; border: solid 1px Silver; padding: 0.6em; background: var(--background-color-base, #fff);"> <p><b>2012</b> </p><p>Brian Falvey replaced Albert Turco, who did not seek re-election, in a Selectmen's seat in town elections of April 24, 2012,<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-BOS_3-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BOS-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-boselection_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-boselection-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Paul R. DiNocco renewed a term for three years.<sup id="cite_ref-BOS_3-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BOS-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-boselection_50-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-boselection-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><b>2013</b> </p><p>In 2013, Selectmen John B. Encarnacao and James E. Good<sup id="cite_ref-13min_48-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13min-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> announced that they would not seek reelection.<sup id="cite_ref-boselection2013_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-boselection2013-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Vice Chair Tiziano Doto was reelected to a three-year term while former Board of Health member Ann Santos won a seat. Former Selectwoman Phyllis Hull returned to the Board with a term lasting through 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-BOS_3-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BOS-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-boselection2013_51-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-boselection2013-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><b>2014</b> </p><p>In 2014, Selectmen Patrick S. Glynn and Betsy Sheeran ran in a three-way election against one challenger, Roland A. Cote.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Both Glynn and Sheeran renewed their terms through 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-BOS_3-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BOS-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><b>2016 (April)</b> </p><p>Phyllis Hull and Ann Santos both ran for re-election on April 26, 2016, in a field of five.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Santos renewed her term; Hull lost out to new Board of Selectmen add-on Anthony J. Longo and Peter J. May.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><b>2016 Special Election (July)</b> </p><p>A vacancy on the Board of Selectmen was filled by a Special Town Election held on July 19, 2016. The candidates to fill the vacancy were announced as Daniel L. Benjamin, Jr., Mehreen N. Butt, Christopher J. Callanan, Nathaniel David Gayman, Allyson Gael Houghton, and Phyllis J. Hull. Hull won the election by 31 votes, avenging her defeat of three months prior and filling a vacant seat on the Board of Selectmen. Hull's new term lasted through April 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="2017–2020"><span id="2017.E2.80.932020"></span>2017–2020</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield,_Massachusetts&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: 2017–2020"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1256386598"> <div style="margin-left:0"> <table class="mw-collapsible mw-archivedtalk mw-collapsed" style="color:inherit; background: transparent; text-align: left; border: 1px solid Silver; margin: 0.2em auto auto; width:100%; clear: both; padding: 1px;"> <tbody><tr> <th class="cot-header-mainspace" style="; font-size:87%; padding:0.2em 0.3em; text-align:center;"><div style="font-size:115%;margin:0 4em">2017–2020 Selectmen/Town Council elections</div> </th></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; border: solid 1px Silver; padding: 0.6em; background: var(--background-color-base, #fff);"> <p><b>2017</b> </p><p>The 2017 town election was held Tuesday, April 25, 2017. The only incumbent Selectperson on the ballot in this election cycle was Phyllis J. Hull,<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who was defeated by the two top vote getters, Edward Dombroski Jr. and Mehreen N. Butt.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><b>2018</b> </p><p>In the 2018 town election, held on Tuesday, April 24, 2018, two seats were up for election. Paul R. DiNocco renewed his Selectman's seat while a newcomer to the Wakefieldian political scene, Julie Smith-Galvin, defeated incumbent Selectman Brian Falvey.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><b>2019</b> </p><p>Three seats for Town Councilors were to be decided in 2019. Ann Santos and Peter J. May, both incumbents, renewed their terms through 2022. However, Anthony Longo was voted off of the Board of Selectmen/Town Council after receiving fewer votes than the only new member to be elected in 2019, Jonathan Chines.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><b>2020</b> </p><p>In 2020, Councilors Mehreen N. Butt and Edward F. Dombroski, Jr., held the only open seats. Both cruised to re-election in a race in which each ran virtually unopposed, with no competition except for write-in candidates,<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and renewed their terms through 2023. </p> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="2021–2024"><span id="2021.E2.80.932024"></span>2021–2024</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield,_Massachusetts&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: 2021–2024"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b>2021</b> </p><p>The 2021 race featured a three-way battle between one incumbent, one Finance Committee member, and one newcomer. Town Councillor Julie Smith-Galvin and Finance Committee member Anne P. Danehy received a plurality of votes, knocking hopeful Brandon Flanagan out of the race. The 2021 election also featured a heated ballot question over whether or not to keep the <a href="/wiki/Wakefield_Memorial_High_School#Athletics" title="Wakefield Memorial High School">Wakefield Warriors</a> logo and mascot; voters chose to maintain the status quo, 2,851–2,337.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><b>2022</b> </p><p>Newcomer Robert E. Vincent was voted onto the Town Council in 2022, and incumbents Jonathan Chines and Michael J. McLane were re-elected, renewing their terms through 2025. Aspirant Katie Dolan, the lone woman in the race, finished fourth.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><b>2023</b> </p><p>In 2023, Wakefieldians voted in a three-way race that pitted incumbents Mehreen N. Butt and Edward F. Dombroski, Jr., in a re-election campaign against newcomer Christopher J. Carino. Butt and Dombroski easily defeated Carino—Butt by nearly 600 votes, Dombroski by over 1,100 votes—renewing their terms through 2026.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><b>2024</b> </p><p>The 2024 Wakefield Town Elections were held on Tuesday, April 23, 2024.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Two Town Council seats were made available in a three-way race. Incumbent Douglas S. Butler received the most votes, renewing his Town Council set through 2027. The second open seat, being vacated by Julie Smith-Galvin,<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was contested between John F. Carney and Allyson Gael Houghton. In receiving the second-most votes behind Butler, Carney was elected to Smith-Galvin's seat, defeating Houghton by just 24 votes.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Finance_Committee">Finance Committee</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield,_Massachusetts&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Finance Committee"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <b><a href="/wiki/Board_of_Finance_(New_England)" title="Board of Finance (New England)">Finance Committee</a></b>, colloquially abbreviated <b>FinCom</b>, is responsible for matters of finance in the town and for setting a budget for the town and its various departments to follow. The fifteen-member committee is composed of, as of January 2024,<sup id="cite_ref-fincom_68-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fincom-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Chairman James Sullivan,<sup id="cite_ref-fincom_68-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fincom-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Vice Chairman Douglas S. Butler,<sup id="cite_ref-fincom_68-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fincom-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Joseph Bertrand,<sup id="cite_ref-fincom_68-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fincom-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tarae Howell,<sup id="cite_ref-fincom_68-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fincom-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Edward Bean,<sup id="cite_ref-fincom_68-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fincom-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Brian Cusack,<sup id="cite_ref-fincom_68-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fincom-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Dennis Hogan,<sup id="cite_ref-fincom_68-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fincom-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> William J. Boodry, Jr.,<sup id="cite_ref-fincom_68-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fincom-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Stefan Chase,<sup id="cite_ref-fincom_68-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fincom-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lorri Wheeler,<sup id="cite_ref-fincom_68-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fincom-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Donald Ravenelle,<sup id="cite_ref-fincom_68-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fincom-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Evan Kenney,<sup id="cite_ref-fincom_68-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fincom-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Aimee Forsythe,<sup id="cite_ref-fincom_68-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fincom-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Daniel W. Sherman,<sup id="cite_ref-fincom_68-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fincom-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Ellie Zuccaro.<sup id="cite_ref-fincom_68-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fincom-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Board_of_appeals">Board of appeals</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield,_Massachusetts&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Board of appeals"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b>The Wakefield Board of Appeals</b>, alternately known as the <b>Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA)</b>, holds hearings on the second and fourth Wednesday of every month<sup id="cite_ref-boa_69-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-boa-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and as of January 2024 consisted of five members, James H. McBain,<sup id="cite_ref-boa_69-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-boa-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Joseph Pride,<sup id="cite_ref-boa_69-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-boa-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> David Hatfield,<sup id="cite_ref-boa_69-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-boa-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Charles Tarbell,<sup id="cite_ref-boa_69-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-boa-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Chairman Thomas Lucey,<sup id="cite_ref-boa_69-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-boa-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with Michael Feeley, Gregory McIntosh, and Kasumi Humphries<sup id="cite_ref-boa_69-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-boa-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as associate members. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Fence_viewers">Fence viewers</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield,_Massachusetts&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Fence viewers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Although a somewhat antiquated position, the town of Wakefield, in accordance with other towns in the state of Massachusetts, appoints townspeople to positions of <b><a href="/wiki/Fence_viewer#Massachusetts" title="Fence viewer">fence viewers</a></b>. Fence viewers serve advisory positions to property owners before a fence is built on or dividing properties. As of June 2023, John Sofia,<sup id="cite_ref-fence_70-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fence-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Paul Torraca,<sup id="cite_ref-fence_70-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fence-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Holly Lenhardt<sup id="cite_ref-fence_70-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fence-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> serve as fence viewers in Wakefield. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="World_War_II_Memorial_Committee">World War II Memorial Committee</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield,_Massachusetts&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: World War II Memorial Committee"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Town of Wakefield tasked a fifteen-member committee<sup id="cite_ref-wwii_71-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wwii-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> headed by Selectwoman Phyllis Hull<sup id="cite_ref-wwii_71-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wwii-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to oversee the construction of a <b><a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> Veterans' Memorial</b> on the <a href="/wiki/Common_District_(Wakefield,_Massachusetts)" title="Common District (Wakefield, Massachusetts)">Upper Common</a>. The memorial includes the names of 72 Wakefieldians who lost their lives during World War II,<sup id="cite_ref-wwii2_72-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wwii2-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as well as names of all other Wakefieldians who served in the war.<sup id="cite_ref-wwii2_72-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wwii2-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The creation of the committee overseeing the project was authorized in 2007,<sup id="cite_ref-wwii2_72-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wwii2-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the memorial was completed in 2011 and unveiled on <a href="/wiki/Veterans_Day_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="Veterans Day (United States)">Veterans Day</a>, November 11, 2011. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Health">Health</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield,_Massachusetts&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Health"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/MelroseWakefield_Hospital" title="MelroseWakefield Hospital">MelroseWakefield Hospital</a> (formerly Melrose-Wakefield Hospital), a <a href="/wiki/Level_II_trauma_center" class="mw-redirect" title="Level II trauma center">Level II trauma center</a>, is located to the south of Wakefield in nearby Melrose (approximately 3.2 miles (5.1 km) south of the Town Center and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south of Greenwood) and serves both the town of Wakefield and city of Melrose. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Board_of_Health">Board of Health</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield,_Massachusetts&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Board of Health"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b>The Wakefield Board of Health (BOH)</b> legislates health policy within the town. As of June 2023, the three-member board is composed of Chair Laurel Skinder Gourville, Vice-Chair Elaine M. Silva, and Secretary Candace Linehan.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The BOH works in concert with the Health Department and Health Director Ruth L. Clay. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Wakefield_and_COVID-19">Wakefield and COVID-19</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield,_Massachusetts&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Wakefield and COVID-19"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dt>Cases</dt></dl> <p>As of March 10, 2022, Wakefield had reported 5,795 cases of <a href="/wiki/COVID-19" title="COVID-19">COVID-19</a> over the course of the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Massachusetts" title="COVID-19 pandemic in Massachusetts">COVID-19 pandemic</a>. These numbers were indicative of a winter surge exacerbated by the <a href="/wiki/Omicron_variant_of_SARS-CoV-2" class="mw-redirect" title="Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2">Omicron variant</a>. 1,205 student cases were reported since Wakefield Public Schools reopened in September 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-dashboard_74-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dashboard-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Likely as a result of some individuals getting tested multiple times, the number of tests administered in the town was at last count more than double the population (26,399 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="estimate">est.</span>) of the town itself. </p> <dl><dt>Vaccinations</dt></dl> <p>As of March 10, 2022, 21,425 Wakefieldians, or about 79% of the town population, had been fully <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_vaccine_in_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="COVID-19 vaccine in the United States">vaccinated</a> against COVID-19. An additional 2,044 townspeople had received one dose of a two-dose vaccine. In total, as of March 10, 2022, 23,469 Wakefieldians had been at least partially inoculated against COVID-19.<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-dashboard_74-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dashboard-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <dl><dt>Town government response</dt></dl> <p>Like much of Massachusetts, Wakefield conducted largely successful public health and safety campaigns regarding quarantining and mask wearing, and achieved a high percentage of immunity once vaccines were rolled out beginning in 2021. In February 2022, the Wakefield Board of Health voted to rescind the town's <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_mask" class="mw-redirect" title="COVID-19 mask">mask mandate</a> for public indoor spaces and municipal buildings effective February 18, 2022. Shortly thereafter, the town announced it would no longer be updating COVID-19 case counts due to the rise of at-home <a href="/wiki/Antigen_test" class="mw-redirect" title="Antigen test">antigen testing</a>, which was making the town's reports less accurate.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education">Education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield,_Massachusetts&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wakefield_High_School,_Wakefield_MA.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Wakefield_High_School%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg/200px-Wakefield_High_School%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Wakefield_High_School%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg/300px-Wakefield_High_School%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Wakefield_High_School%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg/400px-Wakefield_High_School%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="2448" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Wakefield_High_School_(Massachusetts)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wakefield High School (Massachusetts)">Wakefield High School</a>, as seen in December 2012.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nazareth_Academy,_Wakefield_MA.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Nazareth_Academy%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg/200px-Nazareth_Academy%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Nazareth_Academy%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg/300px-Nazareth_Academy%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Nazareth_Academy%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg/400px-Nazareth_Academy%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="2448" /></a><figcaption>The former <a href="/wiki/Nazareth_Academy_(Wakefield,_Massachusetts)" title="Nazareth Academy (Wakefield, Massachusetts)">Nazareth Academy</a>, as seen in December 2012.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Northeast_Metro_Regional_Vocational_School,_Wakefield_MA.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Northeast_Metro_Regional_Vocational_School%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg/200px-Northeast_Metro_Regional_Vocational_School%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Northeast_Metro_Regional_Vocational_School%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg/300px-Northeast_Metro_Regional_Vocational_School%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Northeast_Metro_Regional_Vocational_School%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg/400px-Northeast_Metro_Regional_Vocational_School%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="2448" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Northeast_Metro_Regional_Vocational_School" class="mw-redirect" title="Northeast Metro Regional Vocational School">Northeast Metro Regional Vocational School</a>, as seen in December 2012.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:WakefieldMA_WoodvilleSchool.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/WakefieldMA_WoodvilleSchool.jpg/200px-WakefieldMA_WoodvilleSchool.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/WakefieldMA_WoodvilleSchool.jpg/300px-WakefieldMA_WoodvilleSchool.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/WakefieldMA_WoodvilleSchool.jpg/400px-WakefieldMA_WoodvilleSchool.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="680" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Woodville_School_(Wakefield,_Massachusetts)" title="Woodville School (Wakefield, Massachusetts)">Woodville Elementary School</a>, as seen in November 2011.</figcaption></figure> <p>Wakefield is home to two high schools: one public school (<a href="/wiki/Wakefield_Memorial_High_School" title="Wakefield Memorial High School">Wakefield High School</a>), and one regional vocational school (<a href="/wiki/Northeast_Metro_Regional_Vocational_School" class="mw-redirect" title="Northeast Metro Regional Vocational School">Northeast Vocational</a>). Wakefield contains one middle school, Galvin Middle School, and four elementary schools, Greenwood, Walton, Woodville, and Dolbeare. Doyle School serves as the town's public preschool.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Little Red School House, also known as the <a href="/wiki/West_Ward_School_(Wakefield,_Massachusetts)" title="West Ward School (Wakefield, Massachusetts)">West Ward School</a>, is a former one-room school house building that was last used by kindergarten students on the West Side until the 1990s. It has been preserved and now houses the Wakefield Historical Society. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="School_Committee">School Committee</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield,_Massachusetts&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: School Committee"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <b>Wakefield School Committee</b> oversees <b>Wakefield Public Schools</b>,<sup id="cite_ref-schoolcommittee_80-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-schoolcommittee-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-school_81-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-school-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which is currently headed by superintendent Doug Lyons as of June 2023.<sup id="cite_ref-supers2_82-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-supers2-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lyons' Assistant Superintendent is Kara Mauro.<sup id="cite_ref-Mauro_43-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mauro-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The School Committee, as of January 2024, is composed of the following elected members:<sup id="cite_ref-schoolcommittee_80-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-schoolcommittee-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Chairman Amy Leeman (2025), Vice-Chair Stephen Ingalls (2024), Kevin Piskadio (2024), Thomas Markham (2025), Peter Davis (2026), Eileen Colleran (2025), and Kevin Fontanella (2025).<sup id="cite_ref-school_81-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-school-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The School Committee controls the majority of municipal spending. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Neighborhoods">Neighborhoods</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield,_Massachusetts&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Neighborhoods"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_villages_in_Massachusetts#Inactive" title="List of villages in Massachusetts">List of villages in Massachusetts § Inactive</a></div> <p>Wakefield is roughly composed of the following neighborhoods:<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:MBTAGreenwood4.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/MBTAGreenwood4.jpg/250px-MBTAGreenwood4.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="188" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/MBTAGreenwood4.jpg/375px-MBTAGreenwood4.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/MBTAGreenwood4.jpg/500px-MBTAGreenwood4.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Greenwood_(MBTA_station)" class="mw-redirect" title="Greenwood (MBTA station)">This commuter rail station</a> in Wakefield bears the name of <i>Greenwood</i>, one of its neighborhoods.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:USPS-Satellite_Branch-Greenwood,_Wakefield,_MA_09-05-20.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/USPS-Satellite_Branch-Greenwood%2C_Wakefield%2C_MA_09-05-20.jpg/250px-USPS-Satellite_Branch-Greenwood%2C_Wakefield%2C_MA_09-05-20.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="149" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/USPS-Satellite_Branch-Greenwood%2C_Wakefield%2C_MA_09-05-20.jpg/375px-USPS-Satellite_Branch-Greenwood%2C_Wakefield%2C_MA_09-05-20.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/USPS-Satellite_Branch-Greenwood%2C_Wakefield%2C_MA_09-05-20.jpg/500px-USPS-Satellite_Branch-Greenwood%2C_Wakefield%2C_MA_09-05-20.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3959" data-file-height="2359" /></a><figcaption>A satellite branch of the Wakefield post office in Greenwood.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Most_Blessed_Sacrament_Church,_Wakefield,_Massachusetts,_6-23-18.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Most_Blessed_Sacrament_Church%2C_Wakefield%2C_Massachusetts%2C_6-23-18.jpg/250px-Most_Blessed_Sacrament_Church%2C_Wakefield%2C_Massachusetts%2C_6-23-18.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="188" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Most_Blessed_Sacrament_Church%2C_Wakefield%2C_Massachusetts%2C_6-23-18.jpg/375px-Most_Blessed_Sacrament_Church%2C_Wakefield%2C_Massachusetts%2C_6-23-18.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Most_Blessed_Sacrament_Church%2C_Wakefield%2C_Massachusetts%2C_6-23-18.jpg/500px-Most_Blessed_Sacrament_Church%2C_Wakefield%2C_Massachusetts%2C_6-23-18.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4032" data-file-height="3024" /></a><figcaption>Most Blessed Sacrament Parish, also located in Greenwood, is one of Wakefield's preeminent Catholic places of worship.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>Greenwood</b> consists of nearly all of Southern Wakefield, bordering the Melrose Highlands neighborhood of <a href="/wiki/Melrose,_Massachusetts" title="Melrose, Massachusetts">Melrose</a> to the south and southwest, the Horace Mann neighborhood of Melrose to the south and southeast, the Golden Hills neighborhood of <a href="/wiki/Saugus,_Massachusetts" title="Saugus, Massachusetts">Saugus</a> to the southeast, and <a href="/wiki/Stoneham,_Massachusetts" title="Stoneham, Massachusetts">Stoneham</a> to the west. Although a part of Wakefield, Greenwood is often labeled as a town separate from Wakefield on maps and in atlases, and a satellite U.S. Post Office exists on Main Street in southern Greenwood.</li> <li><b>Woodville</b> consists of much of central-eastern Wakefield.</li> <li>The <b>Downtown/Wakefield Square</b> area extends from just north of the immediate north shore of Crystal Lake (an area known as <b>Wakefield Junction</b>, where North Avenue merges into Main Street) to the southern shores of <a href="/wiki/Lake_Quannapowitt" title="Lake Quannapowitt">Lake Quannapowitt</a>.</li> <li>The <b>West Side</b> encompasses nearly all of Wakefield which is west of Lake Quannapowitt and Crystal Lake.</li> <li>The <b>East Side</b>, in spite of the name, is not in extreme Eastern Wakefield. Rather, the East Side is about the geographical center of the town, bordering the northeastern shore of Crystal Lake. Woodville is in fact to the east of the "East Side".</li> <li><b>Lakeside</b> encompasses northern-central Wakefield and borders the entire eastern shore of Lake Quannapowitt. Lakeside borders <a href="/wiki/Reading,_Massachusetts" title="Reading, Massachusetts">Reading</a> to the north.</li> <li><b>Montrose</b> consists of much of northeastern Wakefield, bordering <a href="/wiki/Lynnfield,_Massachusetts" title="Lynnfield, Massachusetts">Lynnfield</a>. Aside from Lake Quannapowitt and Crystal Lake, many of Wakefield's smaller ponds and lakes, such as Heron Pond, can be found in the Montrose region.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Points_of_interest">Points of interest</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield,_Massachusetts&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Points of interest"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_Registered_Historic_Places_in_Wakefield,_Massachusetts" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Registered Historic Places in Wakefield, Massachusetts">List of Registered Historic Places in Wakefield, Massachusetts</a></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lake_Quannapowitt" title="Lake Quannapowitt">Lake Quannapowitt</a> is a popular recreation area for walkers, joggers, bikers, and rollerbladers.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lucius_Beebe_Memorial_Library" title="Lucius Beebe Memorial Library">Lucius Beebe Memorial Library</a>.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Common_District_(Wakefield,_Massachusetts)" title="Common District (Wakefield, Massachusetts)">town common</a> is the central park of Wakefield, on the southern edge of <a href="/wiki/Lake_Quannapowitt" title="Lake Quannapowitt">Lake Quannapowitt</a>. Events such as summer concerts, <a href="/wiki/Fourth_of_July" class="mw-redirect" title="Fourth of July">Fourth of July</a> festivities, Festival by the Lake, and Festival Italia take place there.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Breakheart_Reservation" title="Breakheart Reservation">Breakheart Reservation</a>, located in Saugus, is also accessible from Wakefield.</li> <li>Wakefield History Museum, located on Prospect Street.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Places_of_worship">Places of worship</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield,_Massachusetts&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Places of worship"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Wakefield has a wide variety of places of worship serving numerous faiths and denominations. Many townspeople are regular attendees at one of the following: </p> <ul><li>First Parish Congregational Church (Downtown/Wakefield Square; adjacent to <a href="/wiki/Common_District_(Wakefield,_Massachusetts)" title="Common District (Wakefield, Massachusetts)">Wakefield Lower Common</a>)</li> <li>Emmanuel Episcopal Church (Downtown/Wakefield Square)</li> <li>Most Blessed Sacrament Church (southern Greenwood, on Main Street near the Melrose line)</li> <li>Restoration Road Church (formerly <a href="/wiki/Greenwood_Union_Church" title="Greenwood Union Church">Greenwood Union Church</a>) (Greenwood)</li> <li>Romanian Orthodox Church (East Side)</li> <li>St. Florence Parish (Montrose)</li> <li>St. Joseph Parish (West Side)</li> <li>Temple Emmanuel (West Side)</li> <li>Wakefield–Lynnfield United Methodist Church (Montrose)</li> <li>Christ the King North Shore, a branch of the <a href="/wiki/Charismatic_Episcopal_Church" title="Charismatic Episcopal Church">Charismatic Episcopal Church</a> (Wakefield Junction)</li> <li>Mun Su Sa Buddhist Temple (Montrose)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="First_Baptist_Church_fire">First Baptist Church fire</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield,_Massachusetts&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: First Baptist Church fire"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The First Baptist Church of Wakefield (Downtown/Wakefield Square, constructed 1872) served Wakefield for nearly 150 years before being destroyed by a lightning strike and subsequent fire around 7:10 PM EDT, Tuesday, October 23, 2018. It took the rest of the night for firefighters and first responders to extinguish the blaze. As of October 25, the remains of the church were in a pile waiting cleanup. In the aftermath, First Baptist worship services have continued at the nearby First Parish Congregational Church as well as on the site of the Baptist Church building. Reconstruction of the church began in spring of 2023, with a projected opening in 2024.<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The newly built First Baptist Church officially opened on September 8, 2024.<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Unitarian Universalist Church of Wakefield closed in June 2024.<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Transportation">Transportation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield,_Massachusetts&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: Transportation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>An <a href="/wiki/MBTA_Commuter_Rail" title="MBTA Commuter Rail">MBTA Commuter Rail</a> station on the <a href="/wiki/Haverhill/Reading_Line" class="mw-redirect" title="Haverhill/Reading Line">Haverhill/Reading Line</a> is located near the <a href="/wiki/Wakefield_(MBTA_station)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wakefield (MBTA station)">center of town</a> as well as a second station in the <a href="/wiki/Greenwood_(MBTA_station)" class="mw-redirect" title="Greenwood (MBTA station)">Greenwood</a> section. A <a href="/wiki/Center_Depot" class="mw-redirect" title="Center Depot">former Boston and Maine Railroad station</a> located east of this line is now on the <a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places" title="National Register of Historic Places">National Register of Historic Places</a>. Several <a href="/wiki/MBTA" class="mw-redirect" title="MBTA">MBTA</a> buses on <a href="/wiki/MBTA_Buses_in_Melrose,_Stoneham,_and_Wakefield#137" class="mw-redirect" title="MBTA Buses in Melrose, Stoneham, and Wakefield">Route 137</a> run to surrounding communities, including the nearby <a href="/wiki/Oak_Grove_(MBTA_station)" class="mw-redirect" title="Oak Grove (MBTA station)">Oak Grove</a> stop as well as <a href="/wiki/Malden_Center_(MBTA_station)" class="mw-redirect" title="Malden Center (MBTA station)">Malden Center</a>, both rapid transit stations on the <a href="/wiki/Orange_Line_(MBTA)" title="Orange Line (MBTA)">Orange Line</a>. <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Route_128" title="Massachusetts Route 128">Rt. 128</a>/<a href="/wiki/Interstate_95" title="Interstate 95">I-95</a> runs through Wakefield with exits at Albion Street, North Avenue, Water Street, Vernon Street, New Salem Street, and Salem Street. <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Route_129" title="Massachusetts Route 129">State Route 129</a> also passes through Wakefield. <a href="/wiki/US_Route_1" class="mw-redirect" title="US Route 1">US Route 1</a> runs through nearby Saugus and <a href="/wiki/Lynnfield,_Massachusetts" title="Lynnfield, Massachusetts">Lynnfield</a>, while <a href="/wiki/Interstate_93" title="Interstate 93">I-93</a> runs through neighboring <a href="/wiki/Stoneham,_Massachusetts" title="Stoneham, Massachusetts">Stoneham</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Media">Media</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield,_Massachusetts&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Media"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The town is served by two daily newspapers, the locally owned <i><a href="/wiki/The_Wakefield_Daily_Item" title="The Wakefield Daily Item">Daily Item</a></i>, an edition of the <i><a href="/wiki/Daily_Times_Chronicle" title="Daily Times Chronicle">Daily Times Chronicle</a></i>; and a weekly, the <i>Wakefield Observer</i>. The Wakefield Memorial High School has a newspaper, written by the students, recently renamed "WHS exPRESS". The town operates a Public Access cable channel, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.wcatwakefield.org">WCAT Wakefield</a>. </p><p>In addition, Wakefield Nation provides election coverage and supports local charitable causes.<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sports">Sports</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield,_Massachusetts&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: Sports"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Veterans_Field_(Wakefield,_MA)_Softball_07_17_12.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Veterans_Field_%28Wakefield%2C_MA%29_Softball_07_17_12.jpg/600px-Veterans_Field_%28Wakefield%2C_MA%29_Softball_07_17_12.jpg" decoding="async" width="600" height="110" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Veterans_Field_%28Wakefield%2C_MA%29_Softball_07_17_12.jpg/900px-Veterans_Field_%28Wakefield%2C_MA%29_Softball_07_17_12.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Veterans_Field_%28Wakefield%2C_MA%29_Softball_07_17_12.jpg/1200px-Veterans_Field_%28Wakefield%2C_MA%29_Softball_07_17_12.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2841" data-file-height="521" /></a><figcaption>Softball at one of Wakefield's most popular sports venues, Veterans Field — July 17, 2012.</figcaption></figure> <p>Wakefield has a strong local sports fan base and a robust youth sports culture. <a href="/wiki/Wakefield_High_School_(Massachusetts)#Athletics" class="mw-redirect" title="Wakefield High School (Massachusetts)">Wakefield High School</a> has popular <a href="/wiki/American_football" title="American football">football</a>, <a href="/wiki/Baseball" title="Baseball">baseball</a>, <a href="/wiki/Softball" title="Softball">softball</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ice_hockey" title="Ice hockey">hockey</a> and <a href="/wiki/Basketball" title="Basketball">basketball</a> programs. Wakefield High's football team earned a Division II "Super Bowl" title in 1999,<sup id="cite_ref-Wakefield_football_88-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wakefield_football-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a Division III "Super Bowl" title in 2022, which followed an undefeated season.<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Wakefield High's men's and women's basketball teams won Division II state championships in 1997.<sup id="cite_ref-Wakefield_football_88-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wakefield_football-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Baseball" title="Baseball">Baseball</a> is a popular spring and summer sport in the town, with two men's <a href="/wiki/Semi-professional" class="mw-redirect" title="Semi-professional">semiprofessional</a> teams: the Wakefield Merchants, a member of Boston's Intercity Baseball League (and champions of that league in 1978 and 1994),<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a team representing the local <a href="/wiki/American_Legion" title="American Legion">American Legion</a> post. </p><p>Wakefield has many active youth sports leagues. Young athletes in Wakefield can choose to play baseball, basketball, lacrosse, football, soccer, hockey, dance, cheerleading, and softball, among other team sports. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Annual_events">Annual events</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield,_Massachusetts&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: Annual events"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Town Day</li> <li>Festival By The Lake (2nd Saturday in June)<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Independence_Day_(United_States)" title="Independence Day (United States)">Independence Day</a> Parade / Home Town March<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>nb 2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (July 4)</li> <li>Concerts on the Common / Wakefield Summer Band Concert Series (July–September)<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Festival Italia (typically 3rd Saturday in August)</li> <li>Wakefield <a href="/wiki/Porchfest" title="Porchfest">Porchfest</a> (early September) was inaugurated in 2024 as a single-day townwide music festival featuring over one hundred musical acts performing at 50 different locations throughout all neighborhoods of the Town of Wakefield<sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Homecoming Celebration in Autumn</li> <li>Tis the Season Holiday Stroll (1st Saturday in December)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Photo_gallery">Photo gallery</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield,_Massachusetts&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: Photo gallery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><i>See the top of the page for additional photos.</i></dd></dl> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Lake_Quannapowitt.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Lake Quannapowitt"><img alt="Lake Quannapowitt" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Lake_Quannapowitt.jpg/120px-Lake_Quannapowitt.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Lake_Quannapowitt.jpg/180px-Lake_Quannapowitt.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Lake_Quannapowitt.jpg/240px-Lake_Quannapowitt.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Lake Quannapowitt</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Main_Post_Office,_Wakefield_MA.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Wakefield Post Office"><img alt="Wakefield Post Office" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Main_Post_Office%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg/120px-Main_Post_Office%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Main_Post_Office%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg/180px-Main_Post_Office%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Main_Post_Office%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg/240px-Main_Post_Office%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2272" data-file-height="1704" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Wakefield Post Office</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Massachusetts_State_Armory,_Wakefield_MA.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Massachusetts State Armory"><img alt="Massachusetts State Armory" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Massachusetts_State_Armory%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg/120px-Massachusetts_State_Armory%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Massachusetts_State_Armory%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg/180px-Massachusetts_State_Armory%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Massachusetts_State_Armory%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg/240px-Massachusetts_State_Armory%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2816" data-file-height="2112" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Massachusetts State Armory</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:West_Ward_School,_Wakefield_MA.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="The West Ward School"><img alt="The West Ward School" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/West_Ward_School%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg/120px-West_Ward_School%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/West_Ward_School%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg/180px-West_Ward_School%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/West_Ward_School%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg/240px-West_Ward_School%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2816" data-file-height="2112" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The West Ward School</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wakefield_Common,_Wakefield_MA.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Wakefield's Upper Common"><img alt="Wakefield's Upper Common" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Wakefield_Common%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg/120px-Wakefield_Common%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Wakefield_Common%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg/180px-Wakefield_Common%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Wakefield_Common%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg/240px-Wakefield_Common%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2816" data-file-height="2112" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Wakefield's Upper Common</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Item_Building,_Wakefield_MA.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="The headquarters of The Wakefield Daily Item"><img alt="The headquarters of The Wakefield Daily Item" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Item_Building%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg/120px-Item_Building%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Item_Building%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg/180px-Item_Building%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Item_Building%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg/240px-Item_Building%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2272" data-file-height="1704" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The headquarters of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Wakefield_Daily_Item" title="The Wakefield Daily Item">The Wakefield Daily Item</a></i></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flanley%27s_Block,_Wakefield_MA.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flanley's Block"><img alt="Flanley's Block" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Flanley%27s_Block%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg/120px-Flanley%27s_Block%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Flanley%27s_Block%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg/180px-Flanley%27s_Block%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Flanley%27s_Block%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg/240px-Flanley%27s_Block%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2272" data-file-height="1704" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Flanley's Block</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:E._Boardman_House,_Wakefield_MA.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="E. Boardman House"><img alt="E. Boardman House" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/E._Boardman_House%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg/120px-E._Boardman_House%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/E._Boardman_House%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg/180px-E._Boardman_House%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/E._Boardman_House%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg/240px-E._Boardman_House%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2816" data-file-height="2112" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">E. Boardman House</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:House_at_7_Salem_Street,_Wakefield_MA.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="7 Salem Street"><img alt="7 Salem Street" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/House_at_7_Salem_Street%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg/120px-House_at_7_Salem_Street%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/House_at_7_Salem_Street%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg/180px-House_at_7_Salem_Street%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/House_at_7_Salem_Street%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg/240px-House_at_7_Salem_Street%2C_Wakefield_MA.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2816" data-file-height="2112" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">7 Salem Street</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Unitarian_Universalist_Church_of_Wakefield,_MA.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Unitarian Universalist Church of Wakefield"><img alt="Unitarian Universalist Church of Wakefield" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Unitarian_Universalist_Church_of_Wakefield%2C_MA.jpg/80px-Unitarian_Universalist_Church_of_Wakefield%2C_MA.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Unitarian_Universalist_Church_of_Wakefield%2C_MA.jpg/120px-Unitarian_Universalist_Church_of_Wakefield%2C_MA.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Unitarian_Universalist_Church_of_Wakefield%2C_MA.jpg/160px-Unitarian_Universalist_Church_of_Wakefield%2C_MA.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1340" data-file-height="2012" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Unitarian Universalist Church of Wakefield</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_people">Notable people</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield,_Massachusetts&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: Notable people"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti">.mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner{display:flex;flex-direction:column}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{display:flex;flex-direction:row;clear:left;flex-wrap:wrap;width:100%;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{margin:1px;float:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .theader{clear:both;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;align-self:center;background-color:transparent;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbcaption{background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-left{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-right{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-center{text-align:center}@media all and (max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbinner{width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:none!important;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{justify-content:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{float:none!important;max-width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle .thumbcaption{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow>.thumbcaption{text-align:center}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner img{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner img{background-color:white}}</style><div class="thumb tmulti tleft"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:104px;max-width:104px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:102px;max-width:102px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sbrownofficial.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Sbrownofficial.jpg/100px-Sbrownofficial.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="127" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Sbrownofficial.jpg/150px-Sbrownofficial.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Sbrownofficial.jpg/200px-Sbrownofficial.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1105" data-file-height="1400" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">Former U.S. Senator <a href="/wiki/Scott_Brown_(politician)" title="Scott Brown (politician)">Scott Brown</a> hails from Wakefield.</div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:102px;max-width:102px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:John_Galvin,_official_military_photo,_1991.JPEG" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/John_Galvin%2C_official_military_photo%2C_1991.JPEG/100px-John_Galvin%2C_official_military_photo%2C_1991.JPEG" decoding="async" width="100" height="122" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/John_Galvin%2C_official_military_photo%2C_1991.JPEG/150px-John_Galvin%2C_official_military_photo%2C_1991.JPEG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/John_Galvin%2C_official_military_photo%2C_1991.JPEG/200px-John_Galvin%2C_official_military_photo%2C_1991.JPEG 2x" data-file-width="1967" data-file-height="2391" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption"><a href="/wiki/John_Galvin_(general)" title="John Galvin (general)">John Galvin</a> was born in Wakefield and is the namesake of Wakefield's Galvin Middle School.</div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:102px;max-width:102px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Charlie_Moore_with_Emmy_Award.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Charlie_Moore_with_Emmy_Award.JPG/100px-Charlie_Moore_with_Emmy_Award.JPG" decoding="async" width="100" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Charlie_Moore_with_Emmy_Award.JPG/150px-Charlie_Moore_with_Emmy_Award.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Charlie_Moore_with_Emmy_Award.JPG/200px-Charlie_Moore_with_Emmy_Award.JPG 2x" data-file-width="768" data-file-height="1024" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption"><a href="/wiki/Charlie_Moore_(television_personality)" title="Charlie Moore (television personality)">Charlie Moore</a>, Wakefield native and television personality.</div></div></div></div></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Russell_Banks" title="Russell Banks">Russell Banks</a> (1940–2023), author, poet, novelist, spent part of his childhood in Wakefield,<sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> graduating from Wakefield Memorial High School in 1958.<sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lucius_Beebe" title="Lucius Beebe">Lucius Morris Beebe</a>, author, gourmand, photographer, railroad historian, journalist, and syndicated columnist born December 9, 1902, in Wakefield (died 1966)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Boit" title="Elizabeth Boit">Elizabeth Boit</a>, textile manufacturer</li></ul> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bruce_Brown_2021.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Bruce_Brown_2021.png/150px-Bruce_Brown_2021.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="211" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Bruce_Brown_2021.png/225px-Bruce_Brown_2021.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Bruce_Brown_2021.png/300px-Bruce_Brown_2021.png 2x" data-file-width="371" data-file-height="522" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Toronto_Raptors" title="Toronto Raptors">Toronto Raptors</a> <a href="/wiki/Shooting_guard" title="Shooting guard">shooting guard</a> Bruce Brown (shown here with <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Nets" title="Brooklyn Nets">Brooklyn</a>) played basketball at Wakefield High School</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Brewster_(ornithologist)" title="William Brewster (ornithologist)">William Brewster</a>, ornithologist, born in Wakefield in 1851.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bruce_Brown_(basketball)" title="Bruce Brown (basketball)">Bruce Brown</a>, born in <a href="/wiki/Dorchester,_Boston" title="Dorchester, Boston">Dorchester</a> but moved to Wakefield to attend <a href="/wiki/Wakefield_Memorial_High_School" title="Wakefield Memorial High School">Wakefield Memorial High School</a>, where he starred in basketball for two seasons. He was selected by the <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Pistons" title="Detroit Pistons">Detroit Pistons</a> in the <a href="/wiki/2018_NBA_draft" title="2018 NBA draft">2018 NBA draft</a> following a successful college basketball career with the <a href="/wiki/Miami_Hurricanes_men%27s_basketball" title="Miami Hurricanes men's basketball">Miami (FL) Hurricanes</a>. Brown currently plays for the <a href="/wiki/Toronto_Raptors" title="Toronto Raptors">Toronto Raptors</a>, having previously played with the <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Nets" title="Brooklyn Nets">Brooklyn Nets</a>, <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Pistons" title="Detroit Pistons">Detroit Pistons</a>, <a href="/wiki/Denver_Nuggets" title="Denver Nuggets">Denver Nuggets</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Indiana_Pacers" title="Indiana Pacers">Indiana Pacers</a>. On June 12, 2023, Brown became an NBA champion when the Nuggets defeated the <a href="/wiki/Miami_Heat" title="Miami Heat">Miami Heat</a> in five games in the <a href="/wiki/2023_NBA_Finals" title="2023 NBA Finals">2023 NBA Finals</a>. In the 2023–24 season, Brown played briefly for the Pacers before being traded to the Raptors.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scott_Brown_(politician)" title="Scott Brown (politician)">Scott Brown</a>, Massachusetts State and US Senator (2010–2013) preceded by Ted Kennedy; <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_in_Massachusetts,_2012" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 2012">defeated in 2012 reelection bid</a> by <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Warren" title="Elizabeth Warren">Elizabeth Warren</a> and in <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_in_New_Hampshire,_2014" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Senate election in New Hampshire, 2014">2014 bid in New Hampshire</a> by <a href="/wiki/Jeanne_Shaheen" title="Jeanne Shaheen">Jeanne Shaheen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joe_Cannata" title="Joe Cannata">Joe Cannata</a>, <a href="/wiki/Merrimack_College" title="Merrimack College">Merrimack College</a> <a href="/wiki/Merrimack_Warriors_men%27s_ice_hockey" title="Merrimack Warriors men's ice hockey">Warriors</a> goalie and 2009 <a href="/wiki/Vancouver_Canucks" title="Vancouver Canucks">Vancouver Canucks</a> draftee, has appeared in the <a href="/wiki/American_Hockey_League" title="American Hockey League">American Hockey League</a> and in the <a href="/wiki/Swedish_Elite_League" class="mw-redirect" title="Swedish Elite League">Swedish Elite League</a>; currently a member of <a href="/wiki/L%C3%B6wen_Frankfurt" title="Löwen Frankfurt">Löwen Frankfurt</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Deutsche_Eishockey_Liga" title="Deutsche Eishockey Liga">Deutsche Eishockey Liga</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rich_Ceisler" title="Rich Ceisler">Rich Ceisler</a> (1956–2014), stand-up comedian, author and director.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carleton_S._Coon" title="Carleton S. Coon">Carleton S. Coon</a>, anthropologist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Dellinger" title="David Dellinger">David Dellinger</a>, radical pacifist and member of the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Seven" title="Chicago Seven">Chicago Seven</a>, born in Wakefield and graduated from Wakefield Memorial High School in 1932</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Fabiano" title="Anthony Fabiano">Anthony Fabiano</a>, retired NFL center for the <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Browns" title="Cleveland Browns">Cleveland Browns</a>; currently a scouting assistant for the same team. Attended <a href="/wiki/Wakefield_Memorial_High_School" title="Wakefield Memorial High School">Wakefield Memorial High School</a> and <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a> prior to entering the NFL</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernie_Gahan" title="Ernie Gahan">Ernie Gahan</a> (1926–2009), <a href="/wiki/Stock_car" class="mw-redirect" title="Stock car">stock car</a> racing driver</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Galvin_(general)" title="John Galvin (general)">John Galvin</a>, US Army general and former NATO Supreme Allied Commander</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kayla_Harrison" title="Kayla Harrison">Kayla Harrison</a>, <a href="/wiki/Judo" title="Judo">judoka</a>, two-time Olympic gold medalist (2012 and 2016) and world champion in judo. Kayla was the first American (man or woman) to win an Olympic medal in the sport.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Israel_Horovitz" title="Israel Horovitz">Israel Horovitz</a>, playwright and screenwriter born March 31, 1939, in Wakefield. His <a href="/wiki/Work_of_art" title="Work of art">oeuvre</a> includes several plays about Wakefield, collected in a book known as <i>The Wakefield Plays</i>. Horovitz died on November 9, 2020, at the age of 81. <a href="/wiki/Beastie_Boys" title="Beastie Boys">Beastie Boy</a> <a href="/wiki/Ad-Rock" title="Ad-Rock">Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz</a> is the son of Israel Horovitz</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_Kumpel" title="Mark Kumpel">Mark Kumpel</a>, member of the 1984 US Olympic ice hockey team and former NHL player with the <a href="/wiki/Winnipeg_Jets_(1972-1996)" class="mw-redirect" title="Winnipeg Jets (1972-1996)">Winnipeg Jets</a>, <a href="/wiki/Quebec_Nordiques" title="Quebec Nordiques">Quebec Nordiques</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Red_Wings" title="Detroit Red Wings">Detroit Red Wings</a></li></ul> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti"><div class="thumb tmulti tright"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:154px;max-width:154px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:152px;max-width:152px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Buffy_Sainte-Marie_July_2009.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Buffy_Sainte-Marie_July_2009.jpg/150px-Buffy_Sainte-Marie_July_2009.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Buffy_Sainte-Marie_July_2009.jpg/225px-Buffy_Sainte-Marie_July_2009.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Buffy_Sainte-Marie_July_2009.jpg/300px-Buffy_Sainte-Marie_July_2009.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2304" data-file-height="3072" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption"><a href="/wiki/Buffy_Sainte_Marie" class="mw-redirect" title="Buffy Sainte Marie">Buffy Sainte Marie</a> spent part of her childhood in Wakefield.</div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:152px;max-width:152px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Volpe.gif" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Volpe.gif/150px-Volpe.gif" decoding="async" width="150" height="238" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Volpe.gif/225px-Volpe.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/Volpe.gif 2x" data-file-width="242" data-file-height="384" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption"><a href="/wiki/John_Anthony_Volpe" class="mw-redirect" title="John Anthony Volpe">John Anthony Volpe</a> was born in and lived in Wakefield.</div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:152px;max-width:152px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Admiral_Rachel_L._Levine.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Admiral_Rachel_L._Levine.jpg/150px-Admiral_Rachel_L._Levine.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="188" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Admiral_Rachel_L._Levine.jpg/225px-Admiral_Rachel_L._Levine.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Admiral_Rachel_L._Levine.jpg/300px-Admiral_Rachel_L._Levine.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2400" data-file-height="3000" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption"><a href="/wiki/Rachel_Levine" title="Rachel Levine">Rachel Levine</a>, incumbent United States <a href="/wiki/Assistant_Secretary_for_Health" title="Assistant Secretary for Health">Assistant Secretary for Health</a>, grew up in Wakefield.</div></div></div></div></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dave_Lapham" title="Dave Lapham">Dave Lapham</a>, former NFL player with the <a href="/wiki/Cincinnati_Bengals" title="Cincinnati Bengals">Cincinnati Bengals</a>, former USFL player with the New Jersey Generals, current member of the Cincinnati Bengal radio broadcast team</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rachel_Levine" title="Rachel Levine">Rachel Levine</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pediatrics" title="Pediatrics">pediatrician</a> who served as Secretary of the <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania_Department_of_Health" title="Pennsylvania Department of Health">Pennsylvania Department of Health</a> from 2017 to 2021, and who is currently <a href="/wiki/Assistant_Secretary_for_Health" title="Assistant Secretary for Health">Assistant Secretary for Health</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Administration_of_Joe_Biden" class="mw-redirect" title="Administration of Joe Biden">Biden administration</a>. Levine is the first openly transgender four-star officer in the nation's eight uniformed services<sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Lilley_(ice_hockey)" title="John Lilley (ice hockey)">John Lilley</a>, member of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_at_the_1994_Winter_Olympics#Ice_hockey" title="United States at the 1994 Winter Olympics">1994 US Olympic ice hockey team</a> and former NHL player with the <a href="/wiki/Anaheim_Ducks" title="Anaheim Ducks">Mighty Ducks of Anaheim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buffy_Saint_Marie" class="mw-redirect" title="Buffy Saint Marie">Buffy (Beverly) Sainte Marie</a>, folksinger and composer, born in Canada but raised in Wakefield, graduating from Wakefield Memorial High School in 1958<sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Voice_(U.S._season_2)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Voice (U.S. season 2)">James Massone</a>, former contestant on season 2 of the <a href="/wiki/NBC" title="NBC">NBC</a> program <i><a href="/wiki/The_Voice_(U.S.)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Voice (U.S.)">The Voice</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._David_Mazzone" title="A. David Mazzone">A. David Mazzone</a>, Judge for the U.S. District Court in Boston from 1978 until 2004. He is best known for the 1985 court decision mandating the cleanup of Boston Harbor, which ultimately cost $3.8 billion and resulted in the construction of the Deer Island wastewater treatment plant. Mazzone lived in Wakefield from 1959 until his death in 2004</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlie_Moore_(television_personality)" title="Charlie Moore (television personality)">Charlie Moore</a>, host of <a href="/wiki/New_England_Sports_Network" class="mw-redirect" title="New England Sports Network">NESN's</a> <i>Charlie Moore Outdoors</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marcia_Pankratz" title="Marcia Pankratz">Marcia Pankratz</a>, member of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_at_the_1988_Summer_Olympics#Women's_Team_Competition" title="United States at the 1988 Summer Olympics">1988</a> and <a href="/wiki/United_States_at_the_1996_Summer_Olympics#Women's_Competition_3" title="United States at the 1996 Summer Olympics">1996 Olympic field hockey team</a> and former head coach of field hockey at the University of Michigan</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Pedro" title="Jimmy Pedro">Jimmy Pedro</a>, multiple Olympic medalist in judo and former world champion</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Lenox_Remond" title="Charles Lenox Remond">Charles Lenox Remond</a>, activist and abolitionist, lived in Wakefield</li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._F._Russell" title="C. F. Russell">C. F. Russell</a> (1897–1987), American <a href="/wiki/Occultist" class="mw-redirect" title="Occultist">occultist</a> and writer associated with <a href="/wiki/Aleister_Crowley" title="Aleister Crowley">Aleister Crowley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis_Sullivan" title="Louis Sullivan">Louis Sullivan</a>, architect considered the father of modernism, born in Boston but lived in Wakefield with his grandparents during his school years</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Tisei" title="Richard Tisei">Richard Tisei</a>, former Massachusetts State Senate Minority Leader and former candidate for Lt. Governor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernest_Tyzzer" title="Ernest Tyzzer">Ernest Tyzzer</a> (1875–1965), pathologist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Volpe" class="mw-redirect" title="John Volpe">John Anthony Volpe</a>, three-time Republican governor of Massachusetts, U.S. Secretary of Transportation, and Ambassador to Italy; born in Wakefield in 1908</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burrage_Yale" title="Burrage Yale">Burrage Yale</a> (1781–1860), tin ware manufacturer, largest employer of Wakefield during the early 19th century</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield,_Massachusetts&action=edit&section=41" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">As of July 2, 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-14min_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14min-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-97"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-97">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The Wakefield Independence Day Parade was not held in 2013 after leaders of the Wakefield Independence Day Committee resigned.<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Instead, the West Side Social Club staged a considerably smaller event called a "Home Town March" on July 4, 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In April 2014, it was announced that the Wakefield Independence Day Committee would endeavor to stage the traditional 4th of July Parade in July 2015,<sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with another "Home Town March" organized by the West Side Social Club to take place for the intervening 4th of July 2014. Ultimately, no Home Town March took place in 2014 due to <a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Arthur_(2014)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hurricane Arthur (2014)">Hurricane Arthur</a>.<br />A more traditional 4th of July parade organized by a reformed Wakefield Independence Day Committee took place from 2015 to 2019, before being scrapped again in 2020 and 2021, this time due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Wakefield Independence Day Committee has said it is planning a 2022 return, and the Wakefield Independence Day Parade was again held down North Avenue and Main Street on July 4, 2022, with the <a href="/wiki/Connecticut_Hurricanes" class="mw-redirect" title="Connecticut Hurricanes">Connecticut Hurricanes</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cadets_Drum_and_Bugle_Corps" class="mw-redirect" title="Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps">Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps</a> serving as the penultimate and ultimate acts.<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield,_Massachusetts&action=edit&section=42" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width reflist-columns-2"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-admin-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-admin_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.wakefield.ma.us/town-administrator">Wakefield, Massachusetts – Town Administrator</a>. 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Infobase Publishing. p. 215. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781438107882" title="Special:BookSources/9781438107882"><bdi>9781438107882</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+to+Z+of+American+Indian+Women&rft.pages=215&rft.pub=Infobase+Publishing&rft.date=2014-05-14&rft.isbn=9781438107882&rft.aulast=Sonneborn&rft.aufirst=Liz&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DN7eiezmLjfEC%26pg%3DPA215&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWakefield%2C+Massachusetts" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield,_Massachusetts&action=edit&section=43" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1852_Middlesex_Canal_(Massachusetts)_map.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/1852_Middlesex_Canal_%28Massachusetts%29_map.jpg/200px-1852_Middlesex_Canal_%28Massachusetts%29_map.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="291" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/1852_Middlesex_Canal_%28Massachusetts%29_map.jpg/300px-1852_Middlesex_Canal_%28Massachusetts%29_map.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/1852_Middlesex_Canal_%28Massachusetts%29_map.jpg/400px-1852_Middlesex_Canal_%28Massachusetts%29_map.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2310" data-file-height="3365" /></a><figcaption>1852 map of Boston area showing South Reading, later renamed Wakefield</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Dutton, E.P. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090207181504/http://maps.bpl.org/details_10717/?srch_query=boston+harbor+1867&srch_fields=all&srch_style=exact&srch_fa=save&srch_ok=Go+Search"><i>Chart of Boston Harbor and Massachusetts Bay with Map of Adjacent Country</i>.</a> Published 1867. A good map of roads and rail lines from Wakefield to Boston and surrounding area.</li> <li>Walling & Gray. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080404033909/http://www.salemdeeds.com/atlases_results.asp?ImageType=index&atlastype=MassWorld&atlastown=&atlas=MASSACHUSETTS+1871&atlas_desc=MASSACHUSETTS+1871">1871 Atlas of Massachusetts.</a> see <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080404034546/http://www.salemdeeds.com/atlases_pages.asp?ImageName=PAGE_0044_0045.jpg&atlastype=MassWorld&atlastown=&atlas=MASSACHUSETTS+1871&atlas_desc=MASSACHUSETTS+1871&pageprefix=">1871 Map of Middlesex County Plate 44–45</a> which shows Wakefield and its roads and rail lines.</li> <li><i>History of the Town of Reading, including the Present Towns of Wakefield, Reading and North Reading with Chronological and Historical Sketches from 1639 to 1874</i>. By Lilley Eaton, 815 pages, published 1874.</li> <li><i>History of Wakefield (Middlesex county) Massachusetts</i>, compiled by William E. Eaton and History committee. Published under the direction and authority of the Tercentenary committee of the town of Wakefield, Massachusetts. published 1944.</li> <li><i>History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts</i>, by Samuel Adam Drake, published 1880, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=hNaAnwRMedUC&dq=History+of+Middlesex+County,+Massachusetts&pg=PA506">Volume 2</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=hNaAnwRMedUC&dq=History+of+Middlesex+County,+Massachusetts&pg=PA506">Page 399 Wakefield by Chester W. Eaton.</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=hNaAnwRMedUC">Page 270 Reading by Hirum Barrus and Carroll D. Wright.</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=hNaAnwRMedUC">Page 259 North Reading.</a></li> <li><i>American Wicker: Woven Furniture from 1850 to 1930</i> By Jeremy Adamson, Kit Latham, Published 1993 by Rizzoli.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=qwsO0VE8diAC&q=Wakefield,+Massachusetts">Vital Records of Wakefield, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850</a> Compiled by Thomas W. Baldwin 1912.</li> <li><i>Wakefield: 350 years by the lake : an anniversary history</i> / compiled by the Wakefield 350 Writing Committee; edited by Nancy Bertrand, 1994.</li> <li><i>Wakefield (Images of America series)</i> / by Nancy Bertrand; Arcadia Press, 2000.</li> <li><i>A completed century, 1826–1926; the story of Heywood-Wakefield Company</i> / Heywood-Wakefield Company, 1926.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield,_Massachusetts&action=edit&section=44" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid 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Guillow, Inc.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wakefield_Memorial_High_School" title="Wakefield Memorial High School">Wakefield High School (WHS)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Savings_Bank" title="The Savings Bank">Wakefield Savings Bank</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xura" title="Xura">Xura, Inc.</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Attractions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pleasure_Island_(Massachusetts_amusement_park)" title="Pleasure Island (Massachusetts amusement park)">Pleasure Island (defunct)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lake_Quannapowitt" title="Lake Quannapowitt">Lake Quannapowitt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saugus_River" title="Saugus River">Saugus River</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Notable_residents">Notable residents</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Russell_Banks" title="Russell Banks">Russell Banks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lucius_Beebe" title="Lucius Beebe">Lucius Beebe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Boit" title="Elizabeth Boit">Elizabeth Boit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bruce_Brown_(basketball)" title="Bruce Brown (basketball)">Bruce Brown Jr.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scott_Brown_(politician)" title="Scott Brown (politician)">Scott Brown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joe_Cannata" title="Joe Cannata">Joe Cannata</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rich_Ceisler" title="Rich Ceisler">Rich Ceisler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carleton_S._Coon" title="Carleton S. Coon">Carleton S. Coon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Dellinger" title="David Dellinger">David Dellinger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Fabiano" title="Anthony Fabiano">Anthony Fabiano</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernie_Gahan" title="Ernie Gahan">Ernie Gahan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kayla_Harrison" title="Kayla Harrison">Kayla Harrison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Israel_Horovitz" title="Israel Horovitz">Israel Horovitz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_Kumpel" title="Mark Kumpel">Mark Kumpel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dave_Lapham" title="Dave Lapham">Dave Lapham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Lilley_(ice_hockey)" title="John Lilley (ice hockey)">John Lilley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rachel_Levine" title="Rachel Levine">Rachel Levine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._David_Mazzone" title="A. David Mazzone">A. David Mazzone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marcia_Pankratz" title="Marcia Pankratz">Marcia Pankratz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Pedro" title="Jimmy Pedro">Jimmy Pedro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quonopohit" title="Quonopohit">Quonopohit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buffy_Sainte-Marie" title="Buffy Sainte-Marie">Buffy Sainte-Marie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis_Sullivan" title="Louis Sullivan">Louis Sullivan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Tisei" title="Richard Tisei">Richard Tisei</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernest_Tyzzer" title="Ernest Tyzzer">Ernest Tyzzer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Anthony_Volpe" class="mw-redirect" title="John Anthony Volpe">John Anthony Volpe</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Cyrus_Wakefield" title="Cyrus Wakefield">Cyrus Wakefield</a></b> (namesake)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burrage_Yale" title="Burrage Yale">Burrage Yale</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Wakefield,_Massachusetts" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Wakefield, Massachusetts">National Historic Places <br /> (Houses)</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/House_at_18A_and_20_Aborn_Street" title="House at 18A and 20 Aborn Street">18A & 20 Aborn Av.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_at_6_Adams_Street" title="House at 6 Adams Street">6 Adams St.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_at_380_Albion_Street" title="House at 380 Albion Street">380 Albion St.</a></li> <li>Avon St. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/House_at_23_Avon_Street" title="House at 23 Avon Street">23</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_at_25_Avon_Street" title="House at 25 Avon Street">25</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_at_5_Bennett_Street" title="House at 5 Bennett Street">5 Bennett St.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/E._Boardman_House" title="E. Boardman House">E. Boardman House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Boit_House" title="Elizabeth Boit House">Elizabeth Boit House</a></li> <li>Chestnut St. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/House_at_15_Chestnut_Street" title="House at 15 Chestnut Street">15</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_at_21_Chestnut_Street" title="House at 21 Chestnut Street">21</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_at_95_Chestnut_Street" title="House at 95 Chestnut Street">95</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_at_39_Converse_Street" title="House at 39 Converse Street">39 Converse St.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_at_28_Cordis_Street" title="House at 28 Cordis Street">28 Cordis St.</a></li> <li>Cowdry Houses <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jonas_Cowdry_House" title="Jonas Cowdry House">Jonas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nathaniel_Cowdry_House" title="Nathaniel Cowdry House">Nathaniel</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_at_40_Crescent_Street" title="House at 40 Crescent Street">40 Crescent St.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emerson-Franklin_Poole_House" class="mw-redirect" title="Emerson-Franklin Poole House">Emerson-Franklin Poole House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_at_26_Francis_Avenue" title="House at 26 Francis Avenue">26 Francis Av.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Captain_Goodwin-James_Eustis_House" class="mw-redirect" title="Captain Goodwin-James Eustis House">Captain Goodwin-James Eustis House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Gould_House" title="Samuel Gould House">Samuel Gould House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capt._William_Green_House" title="Capt. William Green House">Capt. William Green House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deacon_Daniel_Green_House" title="Deacon Daniel Green House">Deacon Daniel Green House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_at_118_Greenwood_Street" title="House at 118 Greenwood Street">118 Greenwood St.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_at_20_Hancock_Road" title="House at 20 Hancock Road">20 Hancock Rd.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_at_42_Hopkins_Street" title="House at 42 Hopkins Street">42 Hopkins St.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dr._Charles_Jordan_House" title="Dr. Charles Jordan House">Dr. Charles Jordan House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deacon_Thomas_Kendall_House" title="Deacon Thomas Kendall House">Deacon Thomas Kendall House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_at_15_Lawrence_Street" title="House at 15 Lawrence Street">15 Lawrence St.</a></li> <li>Lawrence St. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/House_at_20_Lawrence_Street" title="House at 20 Lawrence Street">20</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_at_23_Lawrence_Street" title="House at 23 Lawrence Street">23</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_at_556_Lowell_Street" title="House at 556 Lowell Street">556 Lowell St.</a></li> <li>Main St. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/House_at_190_Main_Street" title="House at 190 Main Street">190</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_at_196_Main_Street" title="House at 196 Main Street">196</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_at_1_Morrison_Avenue" title="House at 1 Morrison Avenue">1 Morrison Av.</a></li> <li>Morrison Rd. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/House_at_20_Morrison_Road" title="House at 20 Morrison Road">20</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_at_32_Morrison_Road" title="House at 32 Morrison Road">32</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_at_2_Nichols_Street" title="House at 2 Nichols Street">2 Nichols St.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_at_509_North_Avenue" title="House at 509 North Avenue">509 North Av.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_at_52_Oak_Street" title="House at 52 Oak Street">52 Oak St.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oliver_House_(Wakefield,_Massachusetts)" title="Oliver House (Wakefield, Massachusetts)">Oliver House</a></li> <li>Park St. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/House_at_8_Park_Street" title="House at 8 Park Street">8</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_at_18_Park_Street" title="House at 18 Park Street">18</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_at_22_Parker_Road" title="House at 22 Parker Road">22 Parker Rd.</a></li> <li>Prospect St. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/House_at_88_Prospect_Street" title="House at 88 Prospect Street">88</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_at_90_Prospect_Street" title="House at 90 Prospect Street">90</a></li></ul></li> <li>Richardson Avenue Rowhouses <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Buildings_at_35%E2%80%9337_Richardson_Avenue" title="Buildings at 35–37 Richardson Avenue">35–37</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Building_at_38%E2%80%9348_Richardson_Avenue" title="Building at 38–48 Richardson Avenue">38–48</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dr._S._O._Richardson_House" title="Dr. S. O. Richardson House">Dr. S. O. Richardson House</a></li> <li>Salem St. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/House_at_7_Salem_Street" title="House at 7 Salem Street">7</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_at_19%E2%80%9321_Salem_Street" title="House at 19–21 Salem Street">19–21</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_at_38_Salem_Street" title="House at 38 Salem Street">38</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_at_113_Salem_Street" title="House at 113 Salem Street">113</a></li></ul></li> <li>Sheffield Rd. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/House_at_13_Sheffield_Road" title="House at 13 Sheffield Road">13</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_at_30_Sheffield_Road" title="House at 30 Sheffield Road">30</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dr._Thomas_Simpson_House" title="Dr. Thomas Simpson House">Dr. Thomas Simpson House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_at_54_Spring_Street" title="House at 54 Spring Street">54 Spring St.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Stimpson_House" title="William Stimpson House">William Stimpson House</a></li> <li>Sweetser Houses <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Sweetser_House" title="Daniel Sweetser House">Daniel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Sweetser_House" title="Michael Sweetser House">Michael</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._Horace_Tilton_House" title="D. Horace Tilton House">D. Horace Tilton House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_at_193_Vernon_Street" title="House at 193 Vernon Street">193 Vernon St.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_at_12_West_Water_Street" title="House at 12 West Water Street">12 W. Water St.</a></li> <li>Wave Av. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/House_at_11_Wave_Avenue" title="House at 11 Wave Avenue">11</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_at_15_Wave_Avenue" title="House at 15 Wave Avenue">15</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_at_9_White_Avenue" title="House at 9 White Avenue">9 White Av.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_at_28_Wiley_Street" title="House at 28 Wiley Street">28 Wiley St.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suell_Winn_House" title="Suell Winn House">Suell Winn House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Winship_House" title="Charles Winship House">Charles Winship House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_at_1_Woodcrest_Drive" title="House at 1 Woodcrest Drive">1 Woodcrest Dr.</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Wakefield,_Massachusetts" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Wakefield, Massachusetts">National Historic Places <br /> (Buildings and Districts)</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Beacon_Street_Tomb" title="Beacon Street Tomb">Beacon Street Tomb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beebe_Homestead" title="Beebe Homestead">Beebe Homestead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wakefield_Centre_station" title="Wakefield Centre station">Center (or Centre) Depot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church%E2%80%93Lafayette_Streets_Historic_District" title="Church–Lafayette Streets Historic District">Church–Lafayette Sts. 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James Hartshorne House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Item_Building" title="Item Building">Item Building</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lakeside_Cemetery_Chapel" title="Lakeside Cemetery Chapel">Lakeside Cemetery Chapel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lynnwood_(Wakefield,_Massachusetts)" title="Lynnwood (Wakefield, Massachusetts)">Lynnwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_State_Armory" title="Massachusetts State Armory">Massachusetts State Armory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Reading_Academy" title="South Reading Academy">South Reading Academy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Joseph_School_(Wakefield,_Massachusetts)" title="Saint Joseph School (Wakefield, Massachusetts)">St. Joseph School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Temple_Israel_Cemetery_(Wakefield,_Massachusetts)" title="Temple Israel Cemetery (Wakefield, Massachusetts)">Temple Israel Cemetery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Post_Office%E2%80%93Wakefield_Main" title="United States Post Office–Wakefield Main">Main Post Office</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wakefield_Park_Historic_District" title="Wakefield Park Historic District">Wakefield Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wakefield_Rattan_Company" title="Wakefield Rattan Company">Wakefield Rattan Company</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wakefield_Trust_Company" title="Wakefield Trust Company">Wakefield Trust Company</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wakefield_(MBTA_station)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wakefield (MBTA station)">Wakefield Upper Depot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H._M._Warren_School" title="H. 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href="/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Massachusetts" class="mw-redirect" title="List of cities in Massachusetts"><span style="color:#ffffff;">Cities</span></a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cambridge,_Massachusetts" title="Cambridge, Massachusetts">Cambridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Everett,_Massachusetts" title="Everett, Massachusetts">Everett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Framingham,_Massachusetts" title="Framingham, Massachusetts">Framingham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lowell,_Massachusetts" title="Lowell, Massachusetts">Lowell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malden,_Massachusetts" title="Malden, Massachusetts">Malden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marlborough,_Massachusetts" title="Marlborough, Massachusetts">Marlborough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Medford,_Massachusetts" title="Medford, Massachusetts">Medford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melrose,_Massachusetts" title="Melrose, Massachusetts">Melrose</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newton,_Massachusetts" title="Newton, Massachusetts">Newton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Somerville,_Massachusetts" title="Somerville, Massachusetts">Somerville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waltham,_Massachusetts" title="Waltham, Massachusetts">Waltham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Watertown,_Massachusetts" title="Watertown, Massachusetts">Watertown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Woburn,_Massachusetts" title="Woburn, Massachusetts">Woburn</a></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="5" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Map_of_Massachusetts_highlighting_Middlesex_County.svg/180px-Map_of_Massachusetts_highlighting_Middlesex_County.svg.png" decoding="async" width="180" height="110" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Map_of_Massachusetts_highlighting_Middlesex_County.svg/270px-Map_of_Massachusetts_highlighting_Middlesex_County.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Map_of_Massachusetts_highlighting_Middlesex_County.svg/360px-Map_of_Massachusetts_highlighting_Middlesex_County.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1488" data-file-height="910" /></span><figcaption></figcaption></figure></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#00008F;color:#ffffff;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_towns_in_Massachusetts" class="mw-redirect" title="List of towns in Massachusetts"><span style="color:#ffffff;">Towns</span></a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Acton,_Massachusetts" title="Acton, Massachusetts">Acton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arlington,_Massachusetts" title="Arlington, Massachusetts">Arlington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ashby,_Massachusetts" title="Ashby, Massachusetts">Ashby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ashland,_Massachusetts" title="Ashland, Massachusetts">Ashland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ayer,_Massachusetts" title="Ayer, Massachusetts">Ayer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bedford,_Massachusetts" title="Bedford, Massachusetts">Bedford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belmont,_Massachusetts" title="Belmont, Massachusetts">Belmont</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Billerica,_Massachusetts" title="Billerica, Massachusetts">Billerica</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boxborough,_Massachusetts" title="Boxborough, Massachusetts">Boxborough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burlington,_Massachusetts" title="Burlington, Massachusetts">Burlington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carlisle,_Massachusetts" title="Carlisle, Massachusetts">Carlisle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chelmsford,_Massachusetts" title="Chelmsford, Massachusetts">Chelmsford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Concord,_Massachusetts" title="Concord, Massachusetts">Concord</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dracut,_Massachusetts" title="Dracut, Massachusetts">Dracut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dunstable,_Massachusetts" title="Dunstable, Massachusetts">Dunstable</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Groton,_Massachusetts" title="Groton, Massachusetts">Groton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holliston,_Massachusetts" title="Holliston, Massachusetts">Holliston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hopkinton,_Massachusetts" title="Hopkinton, Massachusetts">Hopkinton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hudson,_Massachusetts" title="Hudson, Massachusetts">Hudson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lexington,_Massachusetts" title="Lexington, Massachusetts">Lexington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lincoln,_Massachusetts" title="Lincoln, Massachusetts">Lincoln</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Littleton,_Massachusetts" title="Littleton, Massachusetts">Littleton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maynard,_Massachusetts" title="Maynard, Massachusetts">Maynard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Natick,_Massachusetts" title="Natick, Massachusetts">Natick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Reading,_Massachusetts" title="North Reading, Massachusetts">North Reading</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pepperell,_Massachusetts" title="Pepperell, Massachusetts">Pepperell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reading,_Massachusetts" title="Reading, Massachusetts">Reading</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sherborn,_Massachusetts" title="Sherborn, Massachusetts">Sherborn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shirley,_Massachusetts" title="Shirley, Massachusetts">Shirley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stoneham,_Massachusetts" title="Stoneham, Massachusetts">Stoneham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stow,_Massachusetts" title="Stow, Massachusetts">Stow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sudbury,_Massachusetts" title="Sudbury, Massachusetts">Sudbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tewksbury,_Massachusetts" title="Tewksbury, Massachusetts">Tewksbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Townsend,_Massachusetts" title="Townsend, Massachusetts">Townsend</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tyngsborough,_Massachusetts" title="Tyngsborough, Massachusetts">Tyngsborough</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Wakefield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wayland,_Massachusetts" title="Wayland, Massachusetts">Wayland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Westford,_Massachusetts" title="Westford, Massachusetts">Westford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Weston,_Massachusetts" title="Weston, Massachusetts">Weston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilmington,_Massachusetts" title="Wilmington, Massachusetts">Wilmington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Winchester,_Massachusetts" title="Winchester, Massachusetts">Winchester</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#00008F;color:#ffffff;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_census-designated_places_in_Massachusetts" title="List of census-designated places in Massachusetts"><span style="color:#ffffff;">CDPs</span></a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ayer_(CDP),_Massachusetts" title="Ayer (CDP), Massachusetts">Ayer (CDP)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cochituate,_Massachusetts" title="Cochituate, Massachusetts">Cochituate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Devens,_Massachusetts" title="Devens, Massachusetts">Devens</a>‡</li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Pepperell,_Massachusetts" title="East Pepperell, Massachusetts">East Pepperell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Groton_(CDP),_Massachusetts" title="Groton (CDP), Massachusetts">Groton (CDP)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hanscom_Air_Force_Base" title="Hanscom Air Force Base">Hanscom AFB</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hopkinton_(CDP),_Massachusetts" title="Hopkinton (CDP), Massachusetts">Hopkinton (CDP)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hudson_(CDP),_Massachusetts" title="Hudson (CDP), Massachusetts">Hudson (CDP)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Littleton_Common,_Massachusetts" title="Littleton Common, Massachusetts">Littleton Common</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pepperell_(CDP),_Massachusetts" title="Pepperell (CDP), Massachusetts">Pepperell (CDP)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pinehurst,_Massachusetts" title="Pinehurst, Massachusetts">Pinehurst</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shirley_(CDP),_Massachusetts" title="Shirley (CDP), Massachusetts">Shirley (CDP)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Townsend_(CDP),_Massachusetts" title="Townsend (CDP), Massachusetts">Townsend (CDP)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Concord,_Massachusetts" title="West Concord, Massachusetts">West Concord</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#00008F;color:#ffffff;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_villages_in_Massachusetts" title="List of villages in Massachusetts"><span style="color:#ffffff;">Other<br />villages</span></a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Auburndale,_Massachusetts" title="Auburndale, Massachusetts">Auburndale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chestnut_Hill,_Massachusetts" title="Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts">Chestnut Hill</a>‡</li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Lexington,_Massachusetts" class="mw-redirect" title="East Lexington, Massachusetts">East Lexington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Felchville,_Massachusetts" title="Felchville, Massachusetts">Felchville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Forge_Village,_Massachusetts" class="mw-redirect" title="Forge Village, Massachusetts">Forge Village</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gleasondale,_Massachusetts" title="Gleasondale, Massachusetts">Gleasondale</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Neighborhoods">Greenwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Graniteville_Historic_District_(Westford,_Massachusetts)" title="Graniteville Historic District (Westford, Massachusetts)">Graniteville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melrose_Highlands,_Massachusetts" title="Melrose Highlands, Massachusetts">Melrose Highlands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nabnasset,_Massachusetts" title="Nabnasset, Massachusetts">Nabnasset</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newton_Centre,_Massachusetts" title="Newton Centre, Massachusetts">Newton Centre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newton_Highlands,_Massachusetts" title="Newton Highlands, Massachusetts">Newton Highlands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newton_Lower_Falls" title="Newton Lower Falls">Newton Lower Falls</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newton_Upper_Falls" title="Newton Upper Falls">Newton Upper Falls</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newtonville,_Massachusetts" title="Newtonville, Massachusetts">Newtonville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nonantum,_Massachusetts" title="Nonantum, Massachusetts">Nonantum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Billerica,_Massachusetts" title="North Billerica, Massachusetts">North Billerica</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Chelmsford,_Massachusetts" title="North Chelmsford, Massachusetts">North Chelmsford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pingryville,_Massachusetts" title="Pingryville, Massachusetts">Pingryville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saxonville,_Massachusetts" title="Saxonville, Massachusetts">Saxonville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thompsonville,_Massachusetts" title="Thompsonville, Massachusetts">Thompsonville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waban,_Massachusetts" title="Waban, Massachusetts">Waban</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Newton,_Massachusetts" title="West Newton, Massachusetts">West Newton</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#00008F;color:#ffffff;">Footnotes</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties</div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow hlist" colspan="3" style="background:#00008F;color:#ffffff;"><div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Portal:Massachusetts_(state)" class="mw-redirect" title="Portal:Massachusetts (state)"><span style="color:#ffffff">Massachusetts portal</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Portal:United_States" title="Portal:United States"><span style="color:#ffffff">United States portal</span></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Region_of_Greater_Boston" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background:#367BCA; color: white;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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class="navbox-group" style="background:#367BCA; color: white;;width:1%">Counties</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Belknap_County,_New_Hampshire" title="Belknap County, New Hampshire">Belknap, NH</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bristol_County,_Massachusetts" title="Bristol County, Massachusetts">Bristol, MA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bristol_County,_Rhode_Island" title="Bristol County, Rhode Island">Bristol, RI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Essex_County,_Massachusetts" title="Essex County, Massachusetts">Essex, MA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hillsborough_County,_New_Hampshire" title="Hillsborough County, New Hampshire">Hillsborough, NH</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kent_County,_Rhode_Island" title="Kent County, Rhode Island">Kent, RI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Merrimack_County,_New_Hampshire" title="Merrimack County, New Hampshire">Merrimack, NH</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Middlesex_County,_Massachusetts" title="Middlesex County, Massachusetts">Middlesex, MA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newport_County,_Rhode_Island" title="Newport County, Rhode Island">Newport, RI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norfolk_County,_Massachusetts" title="Norfolk County, Massachusetts">Norfolk, MA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plymouth_County,_Massachusetts" title="Plymouth County, Massachusetts">Plymouth, MA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Providence_County,_Rhode_Island" title="Providence County, Rhode Island">Providence, RI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rockingham_County,_New_Hampshire" title="Rockingham County, New Hampshire">Rockingham, NH</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Strafford_County,_New_Hampshire" title="Strafford County, New Hampshire">Strafford, NH</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suffolk_County,_Massachusetts" title="Suffolk County, Massachusetts">Suffolk, MA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washington_County,_Rhode_Island" title="Washington County, Rhode Island">Washington, RI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Worcester_County,_Massachusetts" title="Worcester County, Massachusetts">Worcester, MA</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#367BCA; color: white;;width:1%">Major cities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#367BCA; color: white;;width:1%">Cities and towns<br />100k-250k</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Brockton,_Massachusetts" title="Brockton, Massachusetts">Brockton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cambridge,_Massachusetts" title="Cambridge, Massachusetts">Cambridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lowell,_Massachusetts" title="Lowell, Massachusetts">Lowell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lynn,_Massachusetts" title="Lynn, Massachusetts">Lynn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manchester,_New_Hampshire" title="Manchester, New Hampshire">Manchester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Bedford,_Massachusetts" title="New Bedford, Massachusetts">New Bedford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Providence,_Rhode_Island" title="Providence, Rhode Island">Providence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quincy,_Massachusetts" title="Quincy, Massachusetts">Quincy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Worcester,_Massachusetts" title="Worcester, Massachusetts">Worcester</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#367BCA; color: white;;width:1%">Cities and towns<br />25k-100k</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Andover,_Massachusetts" title="Andover, Massachusetts">Andover</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arlington,_Massachusetts" title="Arlington, Massachusetts">Arlington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Attleboro,_Massachusetts" title="Attleboro, Massachusetts">Attleboro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beverly,_Massachusetts" title="Beverly, Massachusetts">Beverly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Billerica,_Massachusetts" title="Billerica, Massachusetts">Billerica</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Braintree,_Massachusetts" title="Braintree, Massachusetts">Braintree</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bridgewater,_Massachusetts" title="Bridgewater, Massachusetts">Bridgewater</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brookline,_Massachusetts" title="Brookline, Massachusetts">Brookline</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chelmsford,_Massachusetts" title="Chelmsford, Massachusetts">Chelmsford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chelsea,_Massachusetts" title="Chelsea, Massachusetts">Chelsea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Concord,_New_Hampshire" title="Concord, New Hampshire">Concord (New Hampshire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coventry,_Rhode_Island" title="Coventry, Rhode Island">Coventry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cranston,_Rhode_Island" title="Cranston, Rhode Island">Cranston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cumberland,_Rhode_Island" title="Cumberland, Rhode Island">Cumberland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Danvers,_Massachusetts" title="Danvers, Massachusetts">Danvers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dartmouth,_Massachusetts" title="Dartmouth, Massachusetts">Dartmouth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Derry,_New_Hampshire" title="Derry, New Hampshire">Derry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dover,_New_Hampshire" title="Dover, New Hampshire">Dover (New Hampshire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dracut,_Massachusetts" title="Dracut, Massachusetts">Dracut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Providence,_Rhode_Island" title="East Providence, Rhode Island">East Providence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Everett,_Massachusetts" title="Everett, Massachusetts">Everett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fall_River,_Massachusetts" title="Fall River, Massachusetts">Fall River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fitchburg,_Massachusetts" title="Fitchburg, Massachusetts">Fitchburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Framingham,_Massachusetts" title="Framingham, Massachusetts">Framingham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franklin,_Massachusetts" title="Franklin, Massachusetts">Franklin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gloucester,_Massachusetts" title="Gloucester, Massachusetts">Gloucester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haverhill,_Massachusetts" title="Haverhill, Massachusetts">Haverhill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnston,_Rhode_Island" title="Johnston, Rhode Island">Johnston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lawrence,_Massachusetts" title="Lawrence, Massachusetts">Lawrence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leominster,_Massachusetts" title="Leominster, Massachusetts">Leominster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lexington,_Massachusetts" title="Lexington, Massachusetts">Lexington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malden,_Massachusetts" title="Malden, Massachusetts">Malden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marlborough,_Massachusetts" title="Marlborough, Massachusetts">Marlborough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marshfield,_Massachusetts" title="Marshfield, Massachusetts">Marshfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Medford,_Massachusetts" title="Medford, Massachusetts">Medford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melrose,_Massachusetts" title="Melrose, Massachusetts">Melrose</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Merrimack,_New_Hampshire" title="Merrimack, New Hampshire">Merrimack (New Hampshire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Methuen,_Massachusetts" title="Methuen, Massachusetts">Methuen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milford,_Massachusetts" title="Milford, Massachusetts">Milford (Massachusetts)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milton,_Massachusetts" title="Milton, Massachusetts">Milton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nashua,_New_Hampshire" title="Nashua, New Hampshire">Nashua</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Natick,_Massachusetts" title="Natick, Massachusetts">Natick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Needham,_Massachusetts" title="Needham, Massachusetts">Needham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newport,_Rhode_Island" title="Newport, Rhode Island">Newport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newton,_Massachusetts" title="Newton, Massachusetts">Newton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Andover,_Massachusetts" title="North Andover, Massachusetts">North Andover</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Attleboro,_Massachusetts" class="mw-redirect" title="North Attleboro, Massachusetts">North Attleboro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Kingstown,_Rhode_Island" title="North Kingstown, Rhode Island">North Kingstown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Providence,_Rhode_Island" title="North Providence, Rhode Island">North Providence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norwood,_Massachusetts" title="Norwood, Massachusetts">Norwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pawtucket,_Rhode_Island" title="Pawtucket, Rhode Island">Pawtucket</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peabody,_Massachusetts" title="Peabody, Massachusetts">Peabody</a></li> <li><a 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href="/wiki/Taunton,_Massachusetts" title="Taunton, Massachusetts">Taunton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tewksbury,_Massachusetts" title="Tewksbury, Massachusetts">Tewksbury</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Wakefield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waltham,_Massachusetts" title="Waltham, Massachusetts">Waltham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warwick,_Rhode_Island" title="Warwick, Rhode Island">Warwick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Watertown,_Massachusetts" title="Watertown, Massachusetts">Watertown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wellesley,_Massachusetts" title="Wellesley, Massachusetts">Wellesley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Warwick,_Rhode_Island" title="West Warwick, Rhode Island">West Warwick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Weymouth,_Massachusetts" title="Weymouth, Massachusetts">Weymouth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Woburn,_Massachusetts" title="Woburn, Massachusetts">Woburn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Woonsocket,_Rhode_Island" title="Woonsocket, Rhode Island">Woonsocket</a></li></ul> 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Massachusetts">Auburn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barrington,_Rhode_Island" title="Barrington, Rhode Island">Barrington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bedford,_Massachusetts" title="Bedford, Massachusetts">Bedford (Massachusetts)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bedford,_New_Hampshire" title="Bedford, New Hampshire">Bedford (New Hampshire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bellingham,_Massachusetts" title="Bellingham, Massachusetts">Bellingham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belmont,_Massachusetts" title="Belmont, Massachusetts">Belmont</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beverly,_Massachusetts" title="Beverly, Massachusetts">Beverly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bristol,_Rhode_Island" title="Bristol, Rhode Island">Bristol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burlington,_Massachusetts" title="Burlington, Massachusetts">Burlington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burrillville,_Rhode_Island" title="Burrillville, Rhode Island">Burrillville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canton,_Massachusetts" title="Canton, Massachusetts">Canton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carver,_Massachusetts" title="Carver, Massachusetts">Carver</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Falls,_Rhode_Island" title="Central Falls, Rhode Island">Central Falls</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlton,_Massachusetts" title="Charlton, Massachusetts">Charlton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clinton,_Massachusetts" title="Clinton, Massachusetts">Clinton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Concord,_Massachusetts" title="Concord, Massachusetts">Concord (Massachusetts)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dedham,_Massachusetts" title="Dedham, Massachusetts">Dedham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dudley,_Massachusetts" title="Dudley, Massachusetts">Dudley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duxbury,_Massachusetts" title="Duxbury, Massachusetts">Duxbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Bridgewater,_Massachusetts" title="East Bridgewater, Massachusetts">East Bridgewater</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Greenwich,_Rhode_Island" title="East Greenwich, Rhode Island">East Greenwich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Easton,_Massachusetts" title="Easton, Massachusetts">Easton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exeter,_New_Hampshire" title="Exeter, New Hampshire">Exeter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fairhaven,_Massachusetts" title="Fairhaven, Massachusetts">Fairhaven</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Foxborough,_Massachusetts" title="Foxborough, Massachusetts">Foxborough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gardner,_Massachusetts" title="Gardner, Massachusetts">Gardner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goffstown,_New_Hampshire" title="Goffstown, New Hampshire">Goffstown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grafton,_Massachusetts" title="Grafton, Massachusetts">Grafton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Groton,_Massachusetts" title="Groton, Massachusetts">Groton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hampton,_New_Hampshire" title="Hampton, New Hampshire">Hampton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hanover,_Massachusetts" title="Hanover, Massachusetts">Hanover</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hanson,_Massachusetts" title="Hanson, Massachusetts">Hanson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hingham,_Massachusetts" title="Hingham, Massachusetts">Hingham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holbrook,_Massachusetts" title="Holbrook, Massachusetts">Holbrook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holden,_Massachusetts" title="Holden, Massachusetts">Holden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holliston,_Massachusetts" title="Holliston, Massachusetts">Holliston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hooksett,_New_Hampshire" title="Hooksett, New Hampshire">Hooksett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hopkinton,_Massachusetts" title="Hopkinton, Massachusetts">Hopkinton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hudson,_Massachusetts" title="Hudson, Massachusetts">Hudson (Massachusetts)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hudson,_New_Hampshire" title="Hudson, New Hampshire">Hudson (New Hampshire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hull,_Massachusetts" title="Hull, Massachusetts">Hull</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ipswich,_Massachusetts" title="Ipswich, Massachusetts">Ipswich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingston,_Massachusetts" title="Kingston, Massachusetts">Kingston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laconia,_New_Hampshire" title="Laconia, New Hampshire">Laconia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lakeville,_Massachusetts" title="Lakeville, Massachusetts">Lakeville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leicester,_Massachusetts" title="Leicester, Massachusetts">Leicester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lincoln,_Rhode_Island" title="Lincoln, Rhode Island">Lincoln (Rhode Island)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Londonderry,_New_Hampshire" title="Londonderry, New Hampshire">Londonderry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lunenburg,_Massachusetts" title="Lunenburg, Massachusetts">Lunenburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lynnfield,_Massachusetts" title="Lynnfield, Massachusetts">Lynnfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mansfield,_Massachusetts" title="Mansfield, Massachusetts">Mansfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marblehead,_Massachusetts" title="Marblehead, Massachusetts">Marblehead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maynard,_Massachusetts" title="Maynard, Massachusetts">Maynard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Medfield,_Massachusetts" title="Medfield, Massachusetts">Medfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Medway,_Massachusetts" title="Medway, Massachusetts">Medway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Middleborough,_Massachusetts" title="Middleborough, Massachusetts">Middleborough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Middletown,_Rhode_Island" title="Middletown, Rhode Island">Middletown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milford,_New_Hampshire" title="Milford, New Hampshire">Milford (New Hampshire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Millbury,_Massachusetts" title="Millbury, Massachusetts">Millbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Narragansett,_Rhode_Island" title="Narragansett, Rhode Island">Narragansett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newburyport,_Massachusetts" title="Newburyport, Massachusetts">Newburyport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norfolk,_Massachusetts" title="Norfolk, Massachusetts">Norfolk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northborough,_Massachusetts" title="Northborough, Massachusetts">Northborough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northbridge,_Massachusetts" title="Northbridge, Massachusetts">Northbridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Reading,_Massachusetts" title="North Reading, Massachusetts">North Reading</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Smithfield,_Rhode_Island" title="North Smithfield, Rhode Island">North Smithfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norton,_Massachusetts" title="Norton, Massachusetts">Norton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norwell,_Massachusetts" title="Norwell, Massachusetts">Norwell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oxford,_Massachusetts" title="Oxford, Massachusetts">Oxford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peabody,_Massachusetts" title="Peabody, Massachusetts">Peabody</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pelham,_New_Hampshire" title="Pelham, New Hampshire">Pelham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pembroke,_Massachusetts" title="Pembroke, Massachusetts">Pembroke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pepperell,_Massachusetts" title="Pepperell, Massachusetts">Pepperell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Portsmouth,_Rhode_Island" title="Portsmouth, Rhode Island">Portsmouth (Rhode Island)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Portsmouth,_New_Hampshire" title="Portsmouth, New Hampshire">Portsmouth (New Hampshire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Randolph,_Massachusetts" title="Randolph, Massachusetts">Randolph</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raymond,_New_Hampshire" title="Raymond, New Hampshire">Raymond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raynham,_Massachusetts" title="Raynham, Massachusetts">Raynham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reading,_Massachusetts" title="Reading, Massachusetts">Reading</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rehoboth,_Massachusetts" title="Rehoboth, Massachusetts">Rehoboth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rockland,_Massachusetts" title="Rockland, Massachusetts">Rockland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scituate,_Massachusetts" title="Scituate, Massachusetts">Scituate (Massachusetts)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scituate,_Rhode_Island" title="Scituate, Rhode Island">Scituate (Rhode Island)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seekonk,_Massachusetts" title="Seekonk, Massachusetts">Seekonk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sharon,_Massachusetts" title="Sharon, Massachusetts">Sharon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smithfield,_Rhode_Island" title="Smithfield, Rhode Island">Smithfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Somerset,_Massachusetts" title="Somerset, Massachusetts">Somerset</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Somersworth,_New_Hampshire" title="Somersworth, New Hampshire">Somersworth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southbridge,_Massachusetts" title="Southbridge, Massachusetts">Southbridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stoneham,_Massachusetts" title="Stoneham, Massachusetts">Stoneham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spencer,_Massachusetts" title="Spencer, Massachusetts">Spencer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sudbury,_Massachusetts" title="Sudbury, Massachusetts">Sudbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swampscott,_Massachusetts" title="Swampscott, Massachusetts">Swampscott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swansea,_Massachusetts" title="Swansea, Massachusetts">Swansea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tiverton,_Rhode_Island" title="Tiverton, Rhode Island">Tiverton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tyngsborough,_Massachusetts" title="Tyngsborough, Massachusetts">Tyngsborough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uxbridge,_Massachusetts" title="Uxbridge, Massachusetts">Uxbridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walpole,_Massachusetts" title="Walpole, Massachusetts">Walpole</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wareham,_Massachusetts" title="Wareham, Massachusetts">Wareham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warren,_Rhode_Island" title="Warren, Rhode Island">Warren (Rhode Island)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wayland,_Massachusetts" title="Wayland, Massachusetts">Wayland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Webster,_Massachusetts" title="Webster, Massachusetts">Webster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Westborough,_Massachusetts" title="Westborough, 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