MASSACHUSETTS

Before the Salem Witch Trials, three women were hanged in Boston over a 40-year period.

Boston Common was the first public park in the United States, established in 1634.

Massachusetts is also known as the Baked Bean State.

Massachusetts is nicknamed the Bay State because of its many large bays.

The Mather School in Dorchester was the first free public school in America, established in 1639.

The Power of Sympathy by William Hill Brown was the first American novel, published in 1789 in Worcester.

The Boston News-Letter was the first American newspaper, published in Boston in 1704.

The Boston Harbor Light Station, located on Little Brewster Island, was the first lighthouse in the United States, built in 1716.

Ruth Wakefield invented the chocolate chip cookie in 1930 at the Tollhouse Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts.

"Say Hello To Someone From Massachusetts" is the state polka of Massachusetts.