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Middleboro

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Middleboro, town (1990 pop. 17,867), Plymouth co., SE Mass.; inc. 1669. Cranberry-processing is a major industry in the town, and fire apparatus, chemicals, and shoes are manufactured. The town was destroyed by Native Americans in King Philip's War King Philip's War, 1675–76, the most devastating war between the colonists and the Native Americans in New England. The war is named for King Philip, the son of Massasoit and chief of the Wampanoag. His Wampanoag name was Metacom, Metacomet, or Pometacom.
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 but later rebuilt. Of interest are a Native American site believed to date from 2500 B.C.; restored Revolutionary industries, such as a slitting mill and an iron foundry; and the Tom Thumb historical museum. The name is also spelled Middleborough.


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and his wife Norma of Plant City, FL; four sisters: Dale Robbins of Warsaw, IN, Beth Johnson of Durham, NH, Karen Schofield of Middleboro, and Diane Hooper of Wolfeboro, NH; and two brothers: Glenn Whitaker of Middleboro, and Keith Whitaker of Plymouth, ME.
The "Applied Course on Viscosity Test Methods" will be held October 17 in Middleboro and October 23 in Atlanta.
The new R/S Plus Rheometer from Brookfield Engineering, Middleboro, Mass, is designed to evaluate materials through the direct measurements of viscosity, yield stress, thixotropic response, creep, and other flow' properties.
 
 
 
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