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Middlesex County
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For administrative purposes the county held two regions, Middlesex-North with its county seat in Lowell, and Middlesex-South with its county seat in Cambridge.
The county was created by the Massachusetts General Court on May 10, 1643, when it was ordered "that the whole plantation within this jurisdiction be divided into four shires". Middlesex initially contained Charlestown, Cambridge, Watertown, Sudbury, Concord, Woburn, Medford, Wayland, and Reading. In the late 19th century and early 20th century, Boston annexed several adjacent cities and towns including Charlestown and Brighton from Middlesex County, resulting in an enlargement of Suffolk County.
Cities and Towns
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Acton
Arlington
Ashby
Ashland
Ayer
Bedford
Belmont
Billerica
Boxborough
Burlington
Cambridge, a city and county seat
Carlisle
Chelmsford
Concord
Dracut
Dunstable
Everett, a city
Framingham
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Groton
Holliston
Hopkinton
Hudson
Lexington
Lincoln
Littleton
Lowell, a city and county seat
Malden, a city
Marlborough, a city
Maynard
Medford, a city
Melrose, a city
Natick
Newton, a city
North Reading
Pepperell
Reading
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Sherborn
Shirley
Somerville, a city
Stoneham
Stow
Sudbury
Tewksbury
Townsend
Tyngsborough
Wakefield
Waltham, a city
Watertown, a town but legally a city
Wayland
Westford
Weston
Wilmington
Winchester
Woburn, a city
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