Talk:Barnstable, Massachusetts

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"...capitulated in 1858 after a massive invasion by police and the state militia..."
Can anyone verify the following statement?

"To break the back of the Catholic power center in the Boston area, the Massachusetts legislature enacted the first compulsory education law in 1852. Over the next six years many parents were jailed and thousands of children marched off to school by the state militia, as entire "revolting" towns were militarized when they refused to take their children out of their locally-run schools or home-schools and place them in the state-run, state-controlled institutions. The last town to fall, Barnstable, Massachusetts, capitulated in 1858 after a massive invasion by police and the state militia: compulsory public state-run education had begun in America."

Source: http://www.thomhartmann.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=152&Itemid=58

Thanks! Ewlyahoocom (talk) 14:06, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

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What is the economic base of barnstable?
Also Barnstable appears to have a high level of higher education, yet no institution ranked higher than a community college. Why is that? Burressd (talk) 11:50, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
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Santuit
Article Santuit_Historic_District says 'Santuit' is a village of Barnstable.

So which if you is wrong? They, for claiming a falsehood, or you for failing to mention it?

Jimlue (talk) 20:26, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

Town or city
I changed the lede sentence from "Barnstable is a town" to "Barnstable is a city," but Eric reverted it, with the edit note "Barnstable is a town, and it calls itself such." But the point is that Barnstable isn't a town, even though it calls itself such. The very next sentence of the article reflects it; Barnstable is "one of thirteen Massachusetts municipalities that have been granted city forms of government... but wish to retain "the town of" in their official names." Having a city form of government is what a city is, in Massachusetts; the fact that the word "town" is in Barnstable's official name doesn't make it not a city. This is like saying we shouldn't say "Massachusetts is a state" just because it's officially styled the "Commonwealth" of Massachusetts. AJD (talk) 00:20, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Well, no surprise, I disagree. Barnstable calls itself a town. It is a town. If you saw it, you would not call it a city. While many people in Massachusetts refer to the state as "the Commonwealth", none of them would call Barnstable a city. Eric talk 02:44, 18 February 2022 (UTC)