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$95,945
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Swansea, MA - History
We would like to provide the residents of Swansea a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Swansea Home page. The Swansea Home page provides as much information as possible on Swansea. Knowing Swansea’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Swansea’s Home page, you will also find Swansea’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Swansea has a population of 16692. 49.4% of Swansea’s inhabitants are Male, and 50.6 are female. 57.7% of Swansea is married and 86.8% own their own home. The Average Home price is $314,894, and the average rent is $1,048. Household median income in Swansea is $95,945, and the individual median income is $43,437. Swansea’s Ethnic is the following: White(95.2%), Multiple(2%), Asian(1.9%), Hispanic(0.8%), Other(0.4%), Native(0.3%), Black(0.2%).
Swansea was named for the Welsh city of Swansea, which had been the hometown of some original settlers. John Miles, the founder of the first Baptist Church in Wales, moved to Swansea c. 1662. William Brenton had purchased the land from Native Americans. Parts of its territory were originally part of Rehoboth, Massachusetts.In 1667 the first Baptist church in Massachusetts relocated to Swansea from Rehoboth after experiencing religious intolerance there, and Swansea was incorporated as an independent town.
Initially, the town established a committee to assign rank of 1, 2, or 3 to the residents with the first getting 3 acres of land, the second 2, and the third 1. The committee could promote and demote residents as it saw fit. The system collapsed in 1681 when the committee voted to make five residents the highest rank and to make the rank hereditary.
The town unanimously voted to abolish the system.On June 20, 1675, the first Indian attack of King Philip's War had all 70 settlers confined to their stockade. The attack had taken place at the Miles Garrison, near the Palmer River. By June 25 the entire town had been burned, although a handful of the colonists escaped to Taunton.
When the active war ended in 1676, the town was soon rebuilt. The Miles (or Myles) Garrison stood the test of time, but was demolished in the 1970s. The plot it was on remains overgrown, free from construction, and a commemorative marker was placed there by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1912.After the war, many small industries, such as forges, ironworks and fisheries, opened up in the town.
Many would later leave, and there remains a large agricultural sector. What is now Barrington, Rhode Island (part of Massachusetts until 1747) was separated from the rest of Swansea in 1717, over religious differences.In the late 1890s, trolleys connected the town to Providence, Fall River and Taunton, and the town has retained a suburban residential feel.
Today Swansea is well known for its retail areas.Swansea gained national attention in 1985 when Mark Hoyle, a young hemophiliac who had contracted AIDS through a blood transfusion, was allowed to attend public schools by Jack McCarthy, Superintendent of Schools. It was the first time in the U.S. that a student known to have the disease was allowed to enter public schools.
The case came to national attention around the same time as that of Ryan White in Indiana, and helped many children with HIV attend schools throughout the country. Hoyle died one year later, and a new elementary school was named in his honor.
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