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== History == [[File:Congregational Church, New Braintree MA.jpg|thumb|left|upright|{{center|New Braintree Congregational Church}}]] Before being settled by re-located residents of [[Braintree, Massachusetts]], New Braintree was occupied by various Native American groups for at least 9,000 years.<ref name= OH>[https://www.newbraintreema.us/index.asp?SEC=CF96CF8B-57D5-47EB-9687-A5E6DADE958D&Type=B_BASIC "Our History"]. New Braintree, Massachusetts web page. Accessed July 17, 2020.</ref> In 1669, the town of Braintree, located southeast of Boston, voted that each household would be granted an equal interest in the 6000 acres purchased to the west, to be known as "Braintree Farms".<ref name= OH /> The town's lands were formerly a part of the [[Quaboag Plantation]].<ref name=WBHS>{{cite web|title=Brief History of Quaboag Plantation|url=http://www.westbrookfield.org/qp-history-of-qp-3/|publisher=West Brookfield Historical Society|access-date=February 28, 2014}}</ref> In ensuing years additional tracts of land which were formerly part of [[Brookfield, Massachusetts|Brookfield]] and [[Hardwick, Massachusetts|Hardwick]] were acquired. The land was first settled in 1709 and was officially incorporated in 1751 as New Braintree.<ref name= OH /> It has been the home of the [[Massachusetts State Police#Division of Standards & Training|Massachusetts State Police Academy]] since 1992. Governor [[Michael Dukakis]] had proposed and began construction of a controversial state prison in the late 1980s on this site, but was [[NIMBY|met with heavy opposition]] by the town, Boston-area radio talk show host [[Jerry Williams (radio)|Jerry Williams]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1989/2/17/gov-defends-himself-on-radio-pradio/ |title=Gov. Defends Himself on Radio |last=Bonin |first=Michael J. |date=February 17, 1989 |work=The Harvard Crimson |access-date=February 23, 2018 |quote=Radio listeners who tuned in to [[WRKO]]-AM yesterday evening heard a lot of static, but it wasn't because of technical difficulties. It was Gov. Michael S. Dukakis and one of his most vocal critics, talk show host Jerry Williams, trying to talk over one another...The exchange between Dukakis and Williams, a populist critic of the governor and an opponent of big government, grew heated over the issues of cronyism in state government, '''the proposed New Braintree prison site''' and Dukakis' political style.}}</ref> and a group called C.O.S.T. (Conserve Our Small Town). Governor [[William Weld]] was elected and ceased the construction of the prison. The state police training academy now occupies the grounds and buildings of the former [[Seventh-day Adventist]] [[Pioneer Valley Academy]]. In the photo shown, one can see the school's former boys' and girls' dormitories with the cafeteria in between and the water tower to the right of the boys' dormitory. The school opened its doors in September 1965 and closed in June 1983.
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