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Identifier: gazetteerofstate00naso (find matches)
Title: A gazetteer of the state of Massachusetts : with numerous illustrations
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Nason, Elias, 1811-1887 Varney, George J. (George Jones), 1836-1901
Subjects: Massachusetts -- Gazetteers
Publisher: Boston : B.B. Russell
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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edeffective and important service throughout the war; and in the warof 1812, and also in the war of the Rebellion, the county was propor-tionately and honorably represented. The first canal in this country was cut at Dedham in 1639; andthe first railroad in America was constructed in Quincy in 1826.The first water-mill in New England (and probably in the country)was built on the Neponset River, at the Lower Mills in Dorchester,in 1634; and the first powder-mill was built at the same place, in1675. Also in Milton, were built the first slitting-mill, in 1710; thefirst paper-mill, in 1728; and the first chocolate mill, in 1765. Thefirst iron-forge was erected at Quincy in 1643. The manufacture ofglass and quarrying of granite were both commenced in the sametown in 1752; and here, too, in 1789 was launched the ship Massa-chusetts, — then the largest vessel ever constructed in the country.At Canton, in 1801, Paul Revere established the first copper worksin New England, if not in America.
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86 GAZETTEER OF MASSACHUSETTS. P1i7-mrvn-f-1-i C~* r\i-\nt\T lies in the southeast section of ther lymOUUl ^OUIUy state? iiaving a Sea-coast on Mas-sachusetts Bay on the east, and another on Buzzards Bay at thesouth, with a smaller extent on Boston Harbor. Its extremelength of land area is about 47 miles, north and south; with anaverage breadth of 20 miles. Its assessed area is 370,038 acres. Itis bounded by Norfolk County and Boston Bay on the north, Massa-

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