Brockton, Massachusetts Brockton, Massachusetts Brockton is a city in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States; the population was 95,314 in the 2015 Census. Brockton, along with Plymouth, are the county seats of Plymouth County. Brockton is the seventh largest city in Massachusetts and is sometimes referred to as the "City of Champions", due to the success of native boxers Rocky Marciano and Marvin Hagler, as well as its successful Brockton High School sports programs. Two of the villages within the city are Montello and Campello, both have the distinction of having their own MBTA Commuter Rail Stations and post offices. Campello is the
Boxer (dog) breeds. "Bier" (beer) probably refers to the "Biergarten", the typical Munich beergarden, an open-air restaurant where people used to take their dogs along. The nickname "Deutscher Boxer" was derived from "bierboxer" and Boxer could also be a corruption of the former or a contraction of the latter. A passage from the book "The Complete Boxer" by Milo G Denlinger states: "Boxer" is also the name of a dog owned by "John Peerybingle", the main character in the best-selling 1845 book "The Cricket on the Hearth" by Charles Dickens, which is evidence that "Boxer" was commonly used as a dog name