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THE STATE NICKNAMES: Cape Cod & Cape Cod Bay. The Bay State. Massachusetts is most commonly known as The Bay State or The Old Bay State in reference to the Cape Cod Bay where early settlements were made and to the Massachusetts Bay Company given a royal charter in 1629 to promote settlement of the new land from sea to shining sea..
Massachusetts State Names (Etymology of Names) Massachusetts Name Origin and State Nicknames. Northeast. Massachusetts, officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, the State of New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean.