Andover, Massachusetts

Andover is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. It was incorporated in 1646 and as of the 2010 census, the population was 33,201.

Points of Interest:

Phillips Academy, a prep school founded in 1778 with many famous alumni.

The Andover Inn, a New England country inn on the Phillips campus.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Andover Campus service center, which for many years accepted tax forms from several neighboring states. With increasing rates of e-filing, that function was threatened with phase-out in 2009.[19] The federal employee’s union, National Treasury Employees Union, in mid-2009 pushed for special consideration under the Troubled Asset Relief Program for employees threatened with losing jobs.[20] In late 2009, the U.S. General Services Administration received money through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to fund the $85 million green modernization of the 1967 building complex.[21].

Andover is the site of a large factory owned by Raytheon, the builder of the Patriot Missile.

Chandler-Bigsby-Abbot House, built in 1673, is the oldest house in Andover.

Andover is home to the second oldest land preservation society in the country, the Andover Village Improvement Society (AVIS), which controls over 1,100 acres (4.5 km2).

Source: Wikipedia