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Foxborough is best known as the location of Gillette Stadium, home of the New England Patriots of the NFL and the New England Revolution of Major League Soccer. The town also hosted matches during the 1994 FIFA World Cup and is scheduled to host matches in the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
Foxborough was named for Charles James Fox, a Whig member of the British Parliament who was a staunch supporter of the American colonies in the years before the Revolution. The town was incorporated in 1778.
Robert Kraft first acquired Foxboro Stadium after it fell into bankruptcy following the Sullivan family's sale of the Patriots in 1988. In 1994, Kraft prevented the Patriots from relocating to St. Louis by refusing to release the team from its stadium lease, then purchased the team outright.
Gillette Stadium opened in 2002 as a replacement for the original Foxboro Stadium, which had previously operated under the names Schaefer Stadium and Sullivan Stadium since its opening in 1971.
The world's largest straw hat factory was erected in Foxborough, Massachusetts in 1886. The building later became the Inman and Kimball hat factory before burning to the ground in a mid-day fire in 1936; the Foxborough Post Office now stands on the site.
Notable Foxborough natives include Tim Lefebvre, the bassist on David Bowie's final album Blackstar; JoJo, the R&B singer-songwriter born Joanna Levesque; Seth Boyden, credited with inventing patent leather and malleable iron; Sam Berns, the teenager known for living with progeria; and Nguyen Van Thieu, president of South Vietnam from 1967 to 1975.