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Cities in Massachusetts

  • Lowell, MassachusettsIn 1823, the Boston Associates named a new mill town after Francis Cabot Lowell, who had died five years prior. Nathan Appleton and Patrick Tracy Jackson led…
  • Newburyport, MassachusettsOn the 28th of January 1764, the General Court of Massachusetts passed an act to create a new town from part of Newbury.
  • BostonIn 1630, English Puritan settlers led by John Winthrop arrived on the Shawmut Peninsula to establish a new settlement. Isaac Johnson named this place Boston…
  • Waltham, MassachusettsThe English arrived in the area now known as Waltham during 1634. They settled there as part of a larger community called Watertown.