

The county was created by the Massachusetts General Court on May 10, 1643, when it was ordered that "the whole plantation within this jurisdiction be divided into four sheires". Middlesex initially contained Charlestown, Cambridge, Watertown, Sudbury, Concord, Woburn, Medford, Wayland, and Reading.[4] In the late 19th century and early 20th century, Boston annexed several adjacent cities and to...
( MOVE BACK TO THE MAIN PAGE - VERDI GALLERY )* Performers and collaborators of the first premieres * Performers most liked by Giuseppe Verdi and his wife Giuseppina Strepponi * Greatest performers after Verdi's times * Persons are sorted by birth years. * Please, add profiles only to the main page, "Verdi Gallery". Alessandro Manzoni, in whose honour Verdi wrote the Requiem =Messa da r...