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1 Spencer Street
Middleboro, MA02346

$219,000

Single Family Residential
MLS#: 71164148

5 beds1 full bath1 half bath

Lot: 20037.00sqft Year built: 1876

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Spacious antique for the large family!

This home is definitely meant for the large family!!! With 5 nice sized bedrooms, 3 full levels of living space, living room, dining room and den. Many period features that give wonderful character to this fine home. Located in Middleboro center with a short walk to shopping.

About the Neighborhood



Middleborough lies on the western border of Plymouth County. It is bordered by Bridgewater and Halifax to the north, Plympton and Carver to the east, Wareham and Rochester to the south, and LakevilleTaunton and Raynham to the west. The town is approximately fifteen miles west of Plymouth, thirty miles east of Providence, Rhode Island and 40 miles south of Boston.

Middleborough's rivers and brooks feed in two directions; the Taunton RiverNemasket River and their tributaries flow southeastward as part of the Taunton River Watershed, which empties into Narragansett Bay. The other waterways of the town, including the Weweantic River, flow southward into Buzzards Bay. Along Middleborough's border with Lakeville lie theAssawompsetPocksha and Great Quittacas PondsTispaquin Pond, Woods Pond, and several other ponds make up the town's bodies of water. Middleborough also has four wildlife management areas, as well as the Beaver Dam, Great Cedar and Little Cedar Swamps, the swamps being located in the north of town. The town is also the site of several cranberry bogs, especially in the southeastern part of town along the Carver town line. (In fact, Ocean Spray's headquarters are just over the town line in Lakeville.)

[edit]Transportation

Interstate 495 runs through the town on its way to Cape Cod. The town is also crossed by U.S. Route 44, as well as Routes 1828 and 105, as well as a short, 1,000-foot section ofRoute 58 which passes through the southeast corner of town. Route 79's eastern terminus is on the town line at Route 105; the "Entering Middleborough" sign is barely fifty feet from the end of the road. Routes 18, 28 and 44 meet at a rotary adjacent to I-495 just west of the center of town. Two of I-495's four interchanges are located there. Also, I-495's interchange withRoute 24 is located just 1-1/2 miles northwest of the town line.

Today three rail lines radiate from Middleborough, toward BostonTaunton and Cape Cod. Two rail freight companies serve Middleborough: CSX Transportation, which serves the Boston, Taunton and a short portion of the Cape Cod lines; andMassachusetts Coastal Railroad, which serves Cape Cod. The nearby Middleborough/Lakeville commuter rail station of the MBTA's commuter rail system provides frequent direct service to Boston's South Station. The nearest inter-city (Amtrak) passenger rail stations are Providence,Route 128 station in Westwood and Boston's South Station.

Government

Middleborough is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as a part of three separate districts, the Tenth and Twelfth Bristol and Twelfth Plymouth. The town is represented in the Massachusetts Senate as a part of the First Plymouth and Bristol district, which also includes Berkley, Bridgewater, Carver, Dighton, Marion, Raynham, Taunton and Wareham.[4] The town is home to the Fourth Barracks of Troop D of the Massachusetts State Police.[5].

On the national level, Middleborough is a part of Massachusetts's 4th congressional district, and is currently represented by Barney Frank. The state's senior (Class II) member of theUnited States Senate, re-elected in 2008, is John Kerry. The junior (Class I) senator, elected in 2010, is Scott Brown.

Middleborough is governed by the open town meeting form of government, which is led by a town manager and a board of selectmen. The town's services are centralized downtown, with the fire and police headquarters being just to the north of the town hall, and the central post office being northwest of it. The town library is also located downtown.

A second part-time fire department is operated further south along Route 28 in South Middleboro. A third, temporary station was built in the 2000s as the surrogate home for the downtown facility, which was closed for substantial renovations. This third station, near the rotary north of the center of town, has subsequently been closed.


Education

Middleborough has its own school system, headed by a school committee and superintendent. There is one school for kindergarten children, the Memorial Early Childhood Center, housed in the old junior high. It opened in September 2007 after a $13 million dollar renovation. The Mary K. Goode Elementary School serves grades 1 and 2 and the Henry B. Burkland Intermediate School serves grades 3 through 5. The John T. "Tiger" Nichols, Jr. Middle School (1999) serves grades 6 through 8, and the Middleborough High School serves grades 9 through 12. Middleborough High's mascot is the "Sachems," and their colors are black and orange. Other sports teams in town including the semi-pro football team the Middleborough Cobras and the middle school baseball team Tigers. The school's main rival is Carver High School.

Middleborough is also home to the Frederick L. Chamberlain School, a private institution that serves students from around the world struggling with learning disabilities.

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