New Jerusalem
"...The changeless, legend-haunted city of New Jerusalem, with its clustering gambrel roofs that sway and sag over attics where witches hid from the King's men in the dark olden days of the province."
New Jerusalem is a small academic and industrial town located in Essex County in the northeastern part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, not far from the Atlantic Ocean. It stands athwart the banks of the Missituk River, a short drive of 40 minutes, about 22 miles northeast of Boston and a little more than 12 miles south of Newburyport.
New Jerusalem is located along state Route 1-A, itself an exit off highway Route 128. Route 128 in Massachusetts is synonymous with industrial and commercial growth, as well as occasional traffic gridlock. The highway has transformed small, placid, classic New England towns such as New Jerusalem into busy suburbs quickly cluttering with commercial architecture and business concerns.
Much of New Jerusalem’s semi-rural charm and colonial ambiance is beginning to be lost to the march of progress and the drone of highway traffic. Boston’s Logan International Airport serves as the region’s gateway to the world, although smaller personal and corporate aircraft make regular use of the nearby New Jerusalem and Beverly airfields. The MTA (Metropolitan Transit Authority) runs six trains daily to New Jerusalem during weekdays, and two during the weekend.
Travelers reach New Jerusalem by car, bus, train, air, or small boat.
Demographics
New Jerusalem has a relatively diverse population with its core population being Caucasian (a mix of English, Irish, and French) with some immigrant population (mostly Polish and Eastern Europeans), a small African American population, and then a very tiny amount of Hispanics and Asians).
Presently New Jerusalem has c.24,108 full time residents, with a population of c.30,000 when Missituk University is in Fall
and Spring session. Over five hundred students spend the summer in town, rooming in designated campus dormitories. They are employed by the University University, staffing offices, landscaping the campus, and performing other odd-jobs for low pay and free housing.
A large variety of different feline and canine breeds also live in the city.
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"Astra inclinant, sed non obligant."
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New Jerusalem
Founding Date
November 11, 1674
Alternative Name(s)
New Jay, Book Town,
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City
Population
24,108 - 30,000
Inhabitant Demonym
Jerusalemite
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