Evacuation Day in Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Evacuation Day in Suffolk County, Massachusetts is held on March 17. This event in the second decade of the month March is annual. Help us
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". Suffolk initially contained Boston, Roxbury, Dorchester, Dedham, Braintree, Weymouth, and Hingham.[4] The county was named after Suffolk, England, which means "southern folk."
USS Suffolk County (LST-1173) was a De Soto County-class tank landing ship built for the United States Navy during the late 1950s. Named after counties in Massachusetts and New York, she was the only U.S. Naval vessel to bear the name.
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