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Brockton is an incorporated city in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, and one of the county's two county seats, with Plymouth.

It was settled in 1700, was set off from Bridgewater and incorporated as the town of North Bridgewater on June 15, 1821, was renamed Brockton on May 5, 1874 by town vote, with the name echoing Brockville, Ontario, and indirectly General Isaac Brock, and was incorporated as a city on April 9, 1881.

The 2020 census counted 105,643 people in Brockton, in 31,440 households, making it the sixth-largest city in Massachusetts.

Brockton covers 21.52 square miles in total, with 21.33 square miles of land.

Brockton is nicknamed the "City of Champions" for boxers Rocky Marciano and Marvin Hagler and for Brockton High School sports.

During the Civil War Brockton was America's largest producer of shoes, and a shoe and leather industry dominated the city into the late 20th century.

Among Brockton's firsts are the world's first three-wire underground electrical system, switched on by Thomas Edison on October 1, 1883, the first electrically operated fire station in the United States, opened December 30, 1884, and the department-store Santa Claus, who debuted in December 1890 at James Edgar's department store.

In 2020 Brockton became the first city in New England with a majority-Black population.

The W.B. Mason office-supplies company has been headquartered in Brockton since its founding in 1898.

Brockton's largest park is D.W. Field Park, an Olmsted-inspired park with ponds, Waldo Lake, and a golf course, and the city is home to the Brockton Rox baseball team of the Frontier League.