17．The creation of the Cape Cod National Seashore，which was formerly private town and state owned land，marked the first time the federal government purchased land for a park．
18．Robert Goddard，inventor of the first liquid fueled rocket，was born and lived much of his life in Worcester and launched the first rocket fueled with liquid fuel from the neighboring town of Auburn．
19．Quincy boasts the first Dunkin Donuts on Hancock Street and the first Howard Johnson’s on Newport Ave．
20．Glaciers（冰河）formed the islands of Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard during the ice age．
21．The first U．S．Postal zip code（邮递区号）in Massachusetts is 01001at Agawam．
22．Brewster has become the de facto“Wedding Capital of Cape Cod”because of its many small and larger inns（（尤指乡村或公路边的）旅馆，客栈）that cater to weddings．
23．The birth control pill was invented at Clark University in Worcester．
24．The signs along the Massachusetts Turnpike reading“x miles to Boston”refer to the distance from that point to the gold dome（圆屋顶）of the state house．
25．Harvard was the first college established in North America．Harvard was founded in 1636．Because of Harvard’s size there is no universal mailing address that will work for every office at the University．
26．In 1838the Boston &West Worcester Railroad was the first railroad to charge commuter（经常往返者）fares．
27．The Boston University Bridge on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane．
28．The Mather school was founded in Dorchester（多尔切斯特［英国英格兰南部城市］（多塞特郡首府））in 1639．It is the first public elementary school in America．
29．On top of the commercial building on Centre Street in Jamaica（牙买加）Plain sits a weather vane with a whale on it．The building was once state headquarters of Greenpeace．
30．John Adams and John Quincy Adams are buried in the crypt（地下室）at the United First Parish Church in Quincy．
31．The Children’s Museum in Boston displays a giant milk bottle on the museum’s wharf（码头）．If it were real it would hold 50，000gallons of milk and 8，620gallons of cream．
32．Princeton was named after the Reverend Thomas Prince，Pastor of the Old South Church in Boston，and one of the first proprietors（所有者，经营者）of the town．Princeton was incorporated in 1759．
33．Barnstable County is the only Massachusetts county where resident deaths out numbered births between 1990and 1997．
34．The Pilgrim National Wax Museum in Plymouth is the only wax museum devoted entirely to the Pilgrim’s story．
35．In 1908，Miss Caroline O．Emmerton purchased The House of the Seven Gables －built in 1668－restored it to its present state and，in 1910，opened the site to the touring public．The seven－gabled house inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne to write his famous novel of the same name．
36．The Boston Tea Party reenactment（再制定，再扮演）takes place in Boston Harbor every December 16th．
37．Balance Rock in Lanesborough is named in honor of a 25′×15′×10boulder（大石头，漂石）that balances upon a small stone below it．
38．Massachusetts first began issuing drivers licenses and registration plates in June of 1903．
39．The 3rd Monday in April is a legal holiday in Massachusetts called Patriot’s Day．
40．The first Thanksgiving Day was celebrated in Plymouth in 1621．
41．William Hill Brown published The Power of Sympathy in Worcester in 1789．An imitation of Goethe’s Sorrows of Young Werther it is regarded as the first American novel．
42．The fourteen counties in Massachusetts are made up of 43cities and 308towns．
43．Charles Goodyear in Woburn first vulcanized rubber（硫化橡胶）in 1839．
44．Elias Howe of Boston invented the first sewing machine（锁线装订机）in 1845．
45．The first nuclear－powered surface vessel，USS Long Beach CG（N）9，was launched at Quincy in 1961．
46．The USS Constitution“Old Ironsides”，the oldest fully commissioned vessel in the US Navy is permanently berthed（停泊）at Charlestown Navy Yard．Since 1897the ship has been overhauled（检查）several times in Dry Dock 1．
47．Revere Beach was the first public beach in the United States and is host to Suffolk Downs horse racing track，Wonderland dog racing track and a 14－screen cinema complex．
48．The official state dessert of Massachusetts is Boston cream pie．
49．Milford is known the world over for its unique pink granite，discovered in the 1870’s and quarried for many years to grace the exteriors（外型）of museums，government buildings，monuments and railroad stations．
50．Acushnet is the hometown of the Titleist golf ball company．
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