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Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
An early colonial settlement and industrial center, Lynn was long colloquially referred to as the "City of Sin," owing to its historic reputation for crime and vice.
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Lynn includes: Highlands, Lakeside, Lynnhurst, Raddins, Wyoma, and Glenmere (East Lynn).
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Lynn, Massachusetts, USA

Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
Made in Lynn, MA
Lydia Estes Pinkham (February 9, 1819 – May 17, 1883) was an iconic concocter and shrewd marketer of a commercially successful herbal-alcoholic "women's tonic" meant to relieve menstrual and ... Read MORE...
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Lynn, Massachusetts, USA

Elastic Stockings
Curtis & Spindell Co.
38 Wyman Block
Lynn, Mass.
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April 1898
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Lynn, Massachusetts, USA

General Electric Works, Cor. Centre Street and Western Ave.
postmarked 1911
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History, News and Stories of Lynn, Massachusetts, USA

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1629 - Lynn is settled and incorporated
Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
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1629 - The first tannery in the U.S. began operations in Lynn.
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1845 - LYNN. [Pop. 9,369. Inc. 1637.]
Lynn, called Saugus by the Indians, was named after a town of the same name in England. The eastern part of Lynn still retains its original... Read MORE...
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1850 - Lynn is incorporated as a city
Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
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1854 - Lynn
Lynn, a city and seaport of Essex co., Massachusetts, on the Eastern railroad, 9 miles N. N. E. from Boston. Lat. 42° 27' 51" N.. Ion. 70° 67' 27" W. ... Read MORE...
1860 - February 22 – Shoe-making workers of Lynn, Massachusetts, strike successfully for higher wages. The strike spreads throughout New England and eventually involves 20,000 workers.
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February 22, 1860
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1885 - May 19 - 1st mass production of shoes (Jan Matzeliger in Lynn, Massachusetts)
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1889 - Accidentally Shot Dead
LYNN, Mass., Nov. 27. - William F. Sartelle, of Worcester, Massachusetts, a performer in a dime museum here, was shot dead last night. He was... Read MORE...
1889 - $10,000,000 FIRE! A CITY GOES UP IN FLAMES. Lynn, Mass. Desolated. - Boston Subscribes Nearly a Million Dollars For the Sufferers.
Lynn, Mass, the city of shoes, was visited Tuesday afternoon by the greatest fire in its history and with two exceptions the conflagration is the... Read MORE...
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Lynn Massachusetts, 1890
LYNN is a manufacturing town on the seaboard in the extreme southern part of Essex County, 11 miles northeast of Boston, with which it is connected... Read MORE...
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1895 - Lynn
Lynn, a city and seaport of Essex co., Mass, is pleasantly situated on Massachusetts Bay, 10 miles N.N.E. of Boston, and 5 miles S.W. of Salem. Lat.... Read MORE...
1899 - SEIZED BY A LEOPARD. Lynn Boy Goes too Near the Cages at the Circus.
The next time the Forepaugh-Sells Brothers circus visits Lynn, Mass., Frank Ducey, a 10 year old boy, will not be so much interested in getting a... Read MORE...
1903 - NOT KNOWN HERE. Railroad Man Killed At Lynn Said To Belong In Portsmouth.
A Lynn dispatch of the 18th stated that a man named Moorehouse, an employe of the milk train, with his home at Portsmouth, was fatally injured on... Read MORE...
1910 - AGED WOMAN BURNED TO DEATH AT LYNN
Lynn, Feb. 9. - While working around her kitchen range today the clothing of Mrs. Mary S. Coombs caught fire and before her niece, who heard her... Read MORE...
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1916
Lynn, a city and seaport of Essex co., Mass., is pleasantly situated on Massachusetts Bay, 10 miles NE. of Boston, on the Boston and Maine and the... Read MORE...
1923 - FIVE PERSONS DIE IN APARTMENT FIRE. TEN REPORTED MISSING WHEN ESSEX CASTLE HOUSE IS CONSUMED.
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Lynn, Mass., April 19. - Five persons are known to have been killed, and ten are reported missing, in a fire in the Essex Castle... Read MORE...
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