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Chelmsford /ˈtʃɛlmsfərd/ is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts in the United States. It is within the established homeland of the Pennacook, whose descendants are members of the Abenaki First Nation. As of the 2010 United States Census, the town’s population was 33,802. Only 48.4% are male and the median age of residents in Chelmsford is 39.2 years old. It is located 24 miles (39 km) northwest of Boston and, bordering on the city of Lowell, is share of the Greater Lowell metropolitan area. Besides Lowell on its northeast, Chelmsford is in the middle of four towns: Tyngsborough to the north, Billerica to the southeast, Carlisle to the south, and Westford to the west. Chelmsford is bordered by two sizable rivers: the Merrimack River to the north, and the Concord River to the east.

Named after Chelmsford, Essex, England, the town was incorporated in May 1655 by an stroke of the Massachusetts General Court. When Chelmsford was incorporated, its local economy was fueled by lumber mills, limestone quarries and kilns. The crop growing community of East Chelmsford was incorporated as Lowell in the 1820s; over the next decades it would go on to become one of the first large-scale factory towns in the United States because of its in advance role in the country’s Industrial Revolution. Chelmsford experienced a drastic addition in population between 1950 and 1970, coinciding subsequently the membership of U.S. Route 3 in Lowell to Massachusetts Route 128 in the 1950s and the enlargement of U.S. Route 3 from Chelmsford to New Hampshire in the 1960s.

Chelmsford has a representative town meeting form of government. The current town commissioner is Paul Cohen. The town has one public high school – Chelmsford High School, which is ranked among the summit 500 schools in the nation – as competently as two center schools, and four elementary schools. The charter center school started in Chelmsford became a regional charter school (Innovation Academy Charter School) covering grades 5 through 12, now located in Tyngsborough. Chelmsford high school age students as well as have the other of attending the Nashoba Valley Technical High School, located in Westford. In 2011, Chelmsford was avowed the 28th best place to living in the United States by Money magazine.