Talk:Middlesex County, Massachusetts
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The footnote on county seats is Campbell's list of county seats. It lists only Cambridge, not Lowell, as the county seat. I think we should remove all references to Lowell as the county seat of Middlesex County.
Furthermore, since the county government no longer exists, we should remove all references to any county seat: the seat being the place where the government of a county sits.
- The County Map and the City and Town Map from the Massachusetts state web site [1] indicate that Lowell is a county seat of Middlesex County. I'm inclined to trust the state's official map unless I have a reason not to. AJD 02:30, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)
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- If you look carefully at this PDF map] from the state's official website, you'll find that both Cambridge and Lowell are county seats. They have historically been considered county seats (especially in contexts related to the courts, which have been the primary function of counties for a long time), while gin general usage, Cambridge is considered the county seat, as that is where most county offices are housed, such as the registry of deeds, etc. Similarly, Taunton, New Bedford, and Fall River are all the county seats of Bristol County, while most county functions are housed in Taunton. In some southern states, a number of counties have had two county seats, and until the mid-1800s, both Newport and Providence served jointly as state capitals. See also http://www.marion.ohio-state.edu/fac/schul/county/neweng.html and -- BCorr|Брайен 18:54, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)
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- Isn't middlesex county located between male and female? --Abdull 10:58, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] Miles vs Kilometers?
I was just looking at this page, and it struck me: all the areas are primarily in square kilometers instead of square miles. I tried changing them back to miles, but can anyone tell me why it was that way in the first place??? -TC
