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Plymouth ( / ˈplɪməθ /; historically also spelled as Plimouth and Plimoth) is a town and county seat of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. Located in Greater Boston, the town holds a place of great prominence in American history, folklore, and culture, and is known as "America's Hometown". Plymouth was the site of the colony ...
Plymouth County is a county in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, south of Boston. As of the 2020 census, the population was 530,819. [1] Its county seats [2] are Plymouth and Brockton. [3] In 1685, the county was created by the Plymouth General Court, the legislature of Plymouth Colony, predating its annexation by the Massachusetts Bay Colony .
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is home to a large number of Hispanic and Latino residents. As of the 2020 Census, Hispanics and Latinos accounted for 12% of the total state's population (that is; 627,654 residents of Hispanic or Latino ethnic origin) Starting in the 1960s, there was large influx of Hispanic immigrants to the state of ...
Plymouth Colony. / 41.8450; -70.7387. Plymouth Colony (sometimes Plimouth) was the first permanent English colony in New England from 1620 and the third permanent English colony in America, after Newfoundland and the Jamestown Colony. It was settled by the passengers on the Mayflower at a location that had previously been surveyed and named by ...
The Massachusetts smallpox epidemic or colonial epidemic was a smallpox outbreak that hit Massachusetts in 1633. [ 1] Smallpox outbreaks were not confined to 1633 however, and occurred nearly every ten years. [ 2] Smallpox was caused by two different types of variola viruses: variola major and variola minor. [ 3]
Demographics of Massachusetts. Massachusetts has an estimated population of 6.981 million as of 2022 according to the U.S. Census Bureau. [ 1] This represents a −0.7% decrease in population from the 2020 census, when the population was 7.029 million. Currently, Massachusetts is the sixteenth most populous U.S. state .
The Kaiser Family Foundation estimates that, as of 2022, between 6 million and 8 million people aged 65 and over were living in poverty. But living at the poverty line doesn’t necessarily mean ...
The book An Essay on the Principle of Population was first published anonymously in 1798, [ 1] but the author was soon identified as Thomas Robert Malthus. The book warned of future difficulties, on an interpretation of the population increasing in geometric progression (so as to double every 25 years) [ 2] while food production increased in an ...