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Welcome to Bedford, Massachusetts.
Bedford is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA. It is within the Greater Boston area, some 15 miles north-west of the city of Boston. The population of Bedford was 12,595 at the 2000 census.
Meeting House of the First Parish Unitarian (exterior view). Bedford, Massachusetts. Society organized 1730, building erected 1816. Photograph taken July 2005.
Bedford's flag (still on display at the Bedford Public Library) is the oldest complete flag known to exist in the United States. It is celebrated for having been the first U.S. flag flown during the Revolutionary War, as it is believed to have been carried by Nathaniel Page's outfit of Minutemen to the Old North Bridge in Concord for the Battle of Concord on April 19, 1775.
Bedford was first settled in 1640 and was officially incorporated in 1729.
The high school mascot is the Buccaneer and the team colors are blue and white. Bedford's school sports teams compete in the Dual County League.
Bedford is located slightly northwest of the intersection of I-95 (also known as MA-128) and MA-4/MA-225 (which actually cross in Lexington). Nearby highways include US-3 and MA-62.
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Local daily news in Bedford:
Reinhart FoodService takes over Ninety Nine chain for O'Charley's
Nashville, Tenn.-based Oa Charleya s Inc. entered an agreement with Reinhart FoodService, LaCrosse, Wisc., to outsource its food and supply distribution for its 116-restaurant chain Ninety Nine Restaurants.
Dirge of decline
Rory Nugenta s writing has taken him all around the world, but he found the material for his latest book right here in New England.The Eastport authora s a oeDown at the Docksa uses the decline of New Bedford, Mass., once one of the countrya s wealthiest cities and a center of fisheries and manufacturing, to illustrate the 300-year journey of the ...
Qualcomm, Linkabit founder Irwin Jacobs reflects on life in a startup
Last month, Qualcomm co-founder and former chairman and CEO Irwin Jacobs returned to New Bedford, where he was born, to participate in an oceanside chat sponsored by the Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center, the Southern New England Entrepreneurs Forum and MassNetComms.
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