North Attleborough

Attleborough Falls Gasholder Building is a historic building at 380 Elm Street in North Attleborough, Massachusetts. The building was constructed in... 1874 and added to the National Historic Register in 1996.
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The Falls Fire Barn Museum, also known as the Fire Barn or "Falls Fire Station No. 2" is an historic fire station on Commonwealth Avenue in the... village of Attleboro Falls in North Attleborough, Massachusetts. The site was built in 1893 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It was an active fire station until 1976 and housed Engines 1 and 2, when it was replaced by a station built on Kelly Blvd . It has since been made into a museum for the local fire dept as well as the town history in general, and has many artifacts of local interest. The first curator was the late George Cunningham, who was active there until his late 90s. It is supported by admission fees and by fundraisers sponsored by the local historical society. The museum is open Saturdays from 9 a.m to noon.
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Massachusetts , officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a U.S. state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. Massachusetts is the 7th least extensive, but the 14th most populous and the 3rd most densely populated of the 50 United States. The... state features two separate metropolitan areas – the eastern Boston metropolitan area and the western Springfield metropolitan area. Approximately two thirds of the state's population lives in Greater Boston, most of which is either urban or suburban. Western Massachusetts features one urban area – the Knowledge Corridor along the Connecticut River – and a mix of college towns and rural areas. Massachusetts is the most populous of the six New England states and has the US's sixth highest GDP per capita. Massachusetts has played a significant historical, cultural, and commercial role in American history. Plymouth was the site of the colony founded in 1620 by the Pilgrims, passengers of the Mayflower.
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