Place:Mansfield, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States

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Name
Mansfield
Type
Town
Coordinates
42.033°N 71.217°W
Located in
Bristol, Massachusetts, United States

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Mansfield is a town in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the town population was 22,414.

For geographic and demographic information on the village of Mansfield Center, please see the article Mansfield Center, Massachusetts.

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Mansfield was first settled in 1659 and was officially incorporated in 1775. It was named for William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, a pro-colonial member of the House of Lords. Mansfield is largely known for being the home of the Tweeter Center (formerly Great Woods) concert venue, one of the most popular in Massachusetts.

Mansfield is also the only town in the 15-year history of the Fetish Fair Fleamarket that used several last-minute bylaw enforcements to make it less convenient for the event to be held in Mansfield.

Benjamin E. Bates, an industrialist and philanthropist, who was the founder of Bates College was born in Mansfield in 1808.

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