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Groton

Massachusetts, United States
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Groton, town (township), Middlesex county, Massachusetts, U.S. It is located on the Nashua and Squannacook rivers, about 35 miles (56 km) northwest of Boston. Settled and incorporated in 1655, it was probably named for the ancestral home of Massachusetts Bay Colony Governor John Winthrop in Suffolk, England. The town was destroyed 20 years later in King Philip’s (Indian) War against the colonists but was later rebuilt. Groton is known primarily as the seat of two...

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