The bridge of the Grand Junction Railroad was originally built using this island for part of the crossing. At some point between 19, it connected the mainland to what was formerly White Island in the Mystic River.

Landfill has expanded the Everett shoreline over the centuries. In 1892, Everett was upgraded from a town to a city. He also served as President of Harvard University. Senator, the 15th Governor of Massachusetts, Minister to Great Britain, and United States Secretary of State. The community was named after Edward Everett, who served as U.S. The new City Council was elected during the 2013 City Election.Įverett was originally part of Charlestown, and later Malden. On November 8, 2011, the voters approved a new City Charter that changed the City Council to a unicameral body with eleven members – six ward councilors and five councilors-at-large. Įverett was the last city in the United States to have a bicameral legislature, which was composed of a seven-member Board of Aldermen and an eighteen-member Common Council. The population was 49,075 at the time of the 2020 United States Census. Everett is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, directly north of Boston, bordering the neighborhood of Charlestown.

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