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Malden, Massachusetts
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Location in Middlesex County in Massachusetts
Coordinates: 42°25′30″N 71°04′00″W / 42.425, -71.066667
Country	United States
State	Massachusetts
County	Middlesex
Settled	1640
Incorporated	1649
Government
- Type	Mayor-council city
- Mayor	Richard C. Howard
Area
- Total	5.1 sq mi (13.2 km²)
- Land	5.1 sq mi (13.1 km²)
- Water	0.0 sq mi (0.1 km²)
Elevation	13 ft (4 m)
Population (2000)
- Total	56,340
- Density	11,102.9/sq mi (4,286.9/km²)
Time zone	Eastern (UTC-5)
- Summer (DST)	Eastern (UTC-4)
ZIP code	02148
Area code(s)	339 / 781
FIPS code	25-37875
GNIS feature ID	0612773
Website: http://www.ci.malden.ma.us/

Malden is a suburban city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 56,340 at the 2000 census.

Contents 1 History 2 Geography 3 Demographics 4 Government 5 Education 6 Neighborhoods 7 Transportation 7.1 Major highways 7.2 Rail 7.3 Bus 7.4 Air 8 Points of interest 8.1 Recreation 9 Notable residents 10 Literary references 11 References 12 External links

Malden, a hilly woodland area north of the Mystic River, was settled by Puritans in 1640 on land purchased in 1629 from the Pawtucket Indians. Initially a part of Charlestown, it was incorporated as a separate town in 1649.^[1] The name Malden was selected by Joseph Hills, an early settler and landholder, and was named after Maldon, England.^[2] Malden, which originally included what are now the adjacent cities of Melrose (until 1850) and Everett (until 1870), was incorporated as a city in 1882.

The first code of enacted laws printed in New England was compiled here by Joseph Hills in 1648.^{[citation needed]} At the time of the American Revolution, the population was about 1000, and the citizens were involved early in resisting the oppression of Britain; they stopped using tea in 1770 to protest the Revenue Act of 1766, and Malden also has the reputation of being the first town to petition the colonial government to withdraw from the British Empire. ^[1]

Malden High School, in conjunction with Medford High School, has the second oldest continuous high school football rivalries in the United States, with the first "Thanksgiving Day Game" dating back to 1889. ^[3]

Malden contains a number of historic churches. Malden is also the site of the controversial Fells Acres child abuse case.

Malden is located at 42°25′43″N, 71°3′38″W (42.428549, -71.060597).^GR1 It is bordered by Melrose on the North, Everett on the south, Medford on the west, Revere on the east, and Saugus on the northeast.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 5.1 square miles (13.2 km²), of which, 5.1 square miles (13.1 km²) of it is land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km²) of it (0.78%) is water. Bordered on the north by the cliffs of Middlesex Fells, Malden is drained by the Malden River.

As of the census^GR2 of 2000, there were 56,340 people, 23,009 households, and 13,575 families residing in the city. The population density was 11,102.9 people per square mile (4,290.5/km²). There were 23,634 housing units at an average density of 4,657.5/sq mi (1,799.8/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 72.09% White, 8.15% African American, 0.14% Native American, 13.99% Asian, 0.06% Pacific Islander, 2.10% from other races, and 3.46% from two or more races. 4.79% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There were 23,009 households out of which 25.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 42.8% were married couples living together, 12.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 41.0% were non-families. 32.2% of all households were made up of individuals and 11.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.42 and the average family size was 3.13.

In the city the population was spread out with 19.9% under the age of 18, 8.5% from 18 to 24, 36.9% from 25 to 44, 20.8% from 45 to 64, and 13.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females there were 92.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.0 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $45,654, and the median income for a family was $55,557. Males had a median income of $37,741 versus $31,157 for females. The per capita income for the city was $22,004. About 6.6% of families and 9.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 11.6% of those under age 18 and 10.2% of those age 65 or over.

Malden has 5 public elementary/middle schools, a high school, and a public preschool. The website for these is:www.malden.mec.edu. The elementary school was originally in the Chester W. Holmes school, but then was split into the five new public schools:Linden School, Beebe School, Forestdale School, Salemwood School, and Ferryway School. The Holmes school is now the Early Learning preschool.

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Like many communities in New England, many towns and neighborhoods are organized around "Squares" which are locations of crossroads and town commons dating from the colonial and early 19th century years. Many of the neighborhoods in Malden take their name and identity from the Square they are centered around.

Malden's squares include Malden Square (formerly Converse Square, and the location of downtown Malden), Oak Grove Square (at Oak Grove T Station, Bellrock Square (at the intersections of Cross, Main and Medford Sts.), Judson Square (near Ferryway Green/School), former Suffolk Square (at Cross and Bryant Streets, and the location of a thriving Jewish community until being claimed by urban renewal in the 1960s), Maplewood Square (at Lebanon, Maplewood and Salem Streets) and Linden Square.

Some of the neighborhoods in Malden include Faulkner (location of the former Suffolk Square) West End, Edgeworth, Linden, Ferryway, Forestdale and Maplewood, and Belmont Hill (located between Bellrock and Ferryway).

The Faulkner neighborhood is generally bounded by Ferry St on the west, the City of Everett on the South, Maplewood/ Maplewood St on the east and Salem Street on the north. A few of the streets north of Salem Street around Pierce St are sometimes considered part of Faulkner. In colonial times, Harvell's Mill was located here (at the intersection of Cross Street and the old B&M Railroad Tracks, between Eastern Ave and Salem Streets), just below the cliffs, on Harvell's Brook, which drained west to the Malden River. A road from South Malden (now Everett) crossed here to meet Salem Street just uphill. Formerly called Harvell's Brook Lane, it was re-named Cross Street. In the 19th century a railroad was built along Harvell's Brook, named the Saugus Branch, and the brook was channeled to become a sewage ditch called the Saugus Branch Brook. During this time industry sprouted in this area, and a large immigrant neighborhood focused around Bryant and Cross Streets took shape named Suffolk Square. In the early 20th century Saugus Branch Brook was culverted due to pollution. In the 1920s and 30s Jewish immigrants from East Boston and Chelsea, as well as the West and North Ends of Boston, began to migrate to Suffolk Square. During this time Faulkner was served by three trolley lines and two commuter rail stations by what is now the MBTA. All that remains is the Route 105 T bus line. In the 1950s out-migration by the Jewish community to northern suburbs and the decline of railroads and mill-based industry led to a condition of dilapidated and shabby housing of triple deckers and empty storefronts. Ambitious but experimental urban renewal modeled on Boston's Scolley Square and West End projects leveled Suffolk Square and most of the neighborhood. Controversy around redevelopment projects led to the loss of the commercial center at Suffolk Square and the replacement of dense 3-family houses with suburban-like low-income and senior public housing. Housing projects include Suffolk Manor Senior Housing, Bowdoin Apartments and Newland Street Projects. The neighborhood was once served by Lincoln Elementary, Lincoln Jr High/ Middle School and Daniels Elementary as well at as the former Faulkner school at Peirce and Salem Streets. At the beginning of the 21st century a small section of Harvell's Brook was daylighted and partially restored at Roosevelt Park during the construction of the Salemwood School on the east end of the park. Parks in this neighborhood include Daniels Park, Lincoln Commons, Roosevelt Park, South Broadway Park and Harvard St. Park.

The West End neighborhood is the northwest section of the city. It contains the Fellsmere Pond and Amerige Park. The Beebe School is located in the West End neighborhood. The Fells Acre incident occurred here.

The Edgeworth neighborhood is the southwest section of the city. It contains Devir Park, Pearl St. Park, and Callahan Park. The city’s football stadium, MacDonald Stadium is in Edgeworth. A school in Edgeworth is the former Emerson grammar school.

Ferryway is the south central section of the city. It contains the Ferryway School and Newman Park.

Forestdale is the north central section of the city and it contains the Forestdale School and park. It also has the largest park in Malden, Pine Banks Park, and the largest cemetery, Forestdale Cemetery. Parts of Forest street follow an old Indian path.

Linden is the southeast section of the city. It contains the Linden School and Hunting Field.

Maplewood is located between the Forestdale and Linden neighborhoods. It contains Roosevelt Park, Trafton Park, and South Broadway Park. Schools in Maplewood are the Salemwood School and the Malden Catholic High School.

Route 28, Route 60, Route 99, and U.S. Route 1 run through Malden. Route 16 and Interstate 93 are a short distance outside the city's borders.

The city is served by the Orange Line subway that connects it to downtown Boston. The city's subway stops are Malden Center and Oak Grove. The MBTA's commuter rail also has one stop in the city (Malden Center) and can stop at Oak Grove if necessary. During the last few years, Orange Line service has been unavailable evenings and many weekends.^{[citation needed]} At those times, signal system repairs closed off the northern portion of the Orange Line while the MBTA staff redirected commuters to use replacement bus service.

Bus service to all adjacent communities is also available via the service of the MBTA.

Boston's Logan International Airport is easily accessible from Malden.

• Converse Memorial Library

See also: List of Registered Historic Places in Middlesex County, Massachusetts#Malden

Approximately 30 park sites throughout the city provide a variety of recreational facilities including tennis courts, basketball courts, playgrounds and ballfields. Other sites include a 400-meter synthetic running track at Macdonald Stadium; 56 acres (23 ha) of the Middlesex Fells Reservation; the 25 acre (10 ha) Fellsmere Pond; a DCR-owned and operated swimming pool; a 30,000 square feet (2,800 m²) fieldhouse built under the new school rebuilding plan; the state-of-the-art Malden YMCA finished construction in early 2007; and Pine Banks Park, operated by a Board of Trustees with equal representation by the cities of Malden and Melrose.

• Jack Albertson, (born Jonathen George "Jack" Albertson, 1907), Academy Award, Emmy Award and Tony Award-winning American actor, comedian, dancer, singer, musician
• Ed Ames, (born Edmund Dantes Urick, 1927), American singer, actor
• The Ames Brothers, singers
• Walter Brennan, (b. 1894), Academy Award winning American actor^{[citation needed]}
• Augustus C. Carey, inventor, representative of the Know Nothing Movement at the General Court of MA
• George R. Carey, (b. 1851), civil engineer, surveyor, American inventor of an early system of television (1877)^{[citation needed]}
• Gary Cherone, (b.1961), American recording artist, rock vocalist for Extreme and Van Halen
• "Lord" Timothy Dexter, American businessman
• Erle Stanley Gardner, lawyer, author of the Perry Mason mysteries
• Harold Gomberg, principal oboist of the New York Philharmonic from 1943 through 1977
• Norman Greenbaum, (b. 1942), singer/songwriter
• Adoniram Judson, American Baptist missionary in Burma
• Keith Knight, cartoonist, hip-hop artist
• Ellis F. Lawrence, architect
• Fred A. Leuchter, American execution technician featured in Errol Morris's documentary Mr. Death
• David S. Liederman, State Legislator and National Advocate for Children
• Elliot Paul, author, journalist
• Dana Rosenblatt, professional boxer
• Frank Stella, painter and printmaker
• Luca Iannino, community activist , brought Maplewood and Edgeworth together
• John Volpe, Governor of Massachusetts, U.S. Ambassador to Italy
• Michael Wigglesworth, Puritan minister, author^[4]

• Life in early 20th century Malden is the subject of the memoir Linden on the Saugus Branch by writer Elliot Paul. The name Linden refers to the eastern-most section of Malden that borders Revere. Linden was formerly served by the Saugus Branch of the B&M Railroad that ran from Everett to West Lynn via Malden and Saugus. While train service was terminated a long time ago, the tracks remain in place.

• In contemporary literature, Malden became a setpiece for Stephen King's zombie thriller Cell (novel).

• Malden's Suffolk Square is the setting for the 2003 novel "Sin of Omission" by David Evans Katz (link: www.sinofomission.com). In the novel, Malden is thinly disguised as "Middlesex."

• City of Malden, Massachusetts Official Website
• Malden Public Library
• Malden Observer, Local Newspaper

• Malden, Massachusetts is at coordinates 42°25′43″N 71°03′38″W / 42.428549, -71.060597Coordinates: 42°25′43″N 71°03′38″W / 42.428549, -71.060597

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