State Profile for Massachusetts

Added to Union: February 6, 1788 (6th State)	State Official Bird: Chickadee
Capital: Boston	State Official Flower: Mayflower
State Website: http://www.mass.gov/	State Official Tree: American Elm

Historical Figures from Massachusetts

• John Adams
  
• John Quincy Adams
  
• Louis Dembitz Brandeis
  
• Stephen Gerald Breyer
  
• George H.W. Bush
  
• Benjamin Robbins Curtis
  
• William Cushing
  
• Felix Frankfurter
  
• Elbridge Gerry
  
• Horace Gray
  
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  
• John Fitzgerald Kennedy
  
• Henry Knox
  
• William Henry Moody
  
• Joseph Story
  

Historical Sites in Massachusetts

• Adams National Historic Site, Quincy
  
• Bunker Hill Monument, Charlestown
  
• Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library & Museum, Northampton
  
• John F. Kennedy Library, Boston
  
• John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site, Brookline
  
• Uncle Sam Memorial Statue, Arlington
  
• United First Parish Church, Quincy
  

There are 7 sites in Massachusetts

Did you know?

General Grant for the North and General Lee for the South both graduated from West Point.

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