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Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
On June 10th, 1644 the settlement was incorporated by the House of Deputies as the Town of Reading, taking its name from Reading, England.
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Reading, Massachusetts, USA

The Old Parker Tavern
103 Washington Street
Reading, Mass.
Built in 1694
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Reading, Massachusetts, USA

Grouard House, Reading, Mass.
Gen. Brooks drilled the Minute Men of 1776 in the kitchen of this house and Lafayette on his second visit to this country stopped here. The first Missionary to India and the first Missionary to the Sandwich Islands... Read MORE...
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History, News and Stories of Reading, Massachusetts, USA

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1639 - Reading is settled
Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
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1845 - READING. [Pop. 2,193. Inc. 1769.]
Reading was set off from Lynn in Essex county, and was once joined to South Reading, which latter is really the older settlement.
The... Read MORE...
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1848 - Reading
The town of Reading was incorporated in 1644. It is believed that the name of this town ought to have been applied to the town of South Reading, as... Read MORE...
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1854 - Reading
Reading, a post-township in Middlesex co., Massachusetts, 13 miles N. from Boston, intersected by the Boston and Maine railroad. It contains 2... Read MORE...
1854 - The Destructive Gale - Its Effects at the East.
...At South Reading, a coal shed was turned over, which fell upon the Eastern telegraph line, demolishing it for some distance. The shed took fire... Read MORE...
1857 - DESTRUCTIVE TORNADO IN READING, MASS.
Boston, Friday, Aug. 14.
Last night a tornado passed through the town of Reading and vicinity. It was nearly half a mile in width. Several dwellings ... Read MORE...
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1890 Reading Massachusetts
Reading is an old and pleasant town in the extreme eastern of Middlesex County, 12½ miles north of Boston on the Western Division of the Boston and... Read MORE...
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1895 - Reading
Reading, a post-village in Reading township, Middlesex co., Mass., on the Boston & Maine Railroad, 12 miles N. by W. of Boston, and 15 miles S.E. of... Read MORE...
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1906
Reading, a banking post-village in Reading township (town), Middlesex co., Mass., on the Boston and Maine R., 12 miles N. by W. of Boston. It has... Read MORE...
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