History of Abington, Massachusetts, USA

Abington, Massachusetts
Plymouth county. This town is on the high land between Massachusetts and Narraganset bays. Three rivers rise here, two of which empty into the Taunton, the other into the North. It lies 19 miles S.S.E. from Boston, 22 N.W. from Plymouth, 18 N.N.E. from Taunton, and 8 S. of Weymouth landing. This town is noted for its manufactures of boots, shoes, and tacks. The total value of its manufactures, in one year, was $847,294, of which the amount of $82,000 was for tacks and $746,794 was for boots and shoes. There were 847 males and 470 females employed in the manufacture of the latter. Population, 1837, 3,057. This town was incorporated in 1712. Its Indian name was Manamooskeagin.

The Indian name of Abington was Manamooskeagin which means Many Beavers a name which has no application now but to the
industrious inhabitants who have displaced the animals.

Boots and shoes are manufactured to a very large amount.

Abington is said to be the best grazing town in the county.

Distance from Plymouth, 22 miles ; from Boston, 19

Abington, a post-township of Plymouth county, Massachusetts, on the Old Colony railroad, 20 miles S. by E. from Boston. The village contains a bank. Pop., 5269.

ABINGTON, a town in Plymouth co., Massachusetts, U. S., 20 m. SSE of Boston. Pop. in 1840, 3,214; in 1850, 5,200.

Abington is an important and thrifty manufacturing town the northwesterly part of Plymouth County, having an area of 6,000 acres. Holbrook and Weymouth lie on the north, Rockland on the east, Whitman on the south, and Brockton on the west. It is twenty miles southeast of Boston, on the Cape Cod line of the Old Colony Railroad, which has stations at Abington, and North Abington; each of which also have post-offices. The population in 1885 was 3,699; when there were about 70 farms and 759 dwellings. On May 1st, 1888, the latter had increased to 812.

The geological formation is sienite, and carboniferous. In some localities blue slate, bog-iron ore, and peat are found. The land is somewhat elevated, and forms the water-shed between the North and Taunton rivers. The pond, with its groves, at the southern village is a charming place, and much frequented by pleasure parties.

The soil is in some parts very good, and the farms are fairly fertile, — the dairies, in 1885, yielding...

Abington, a post-township of Plymouth co. Ma: about 20 miles S. by E. of Boston. It is intersected by the Plymouth Branch of the Old Colony Railroad, and has manufactures of machinery and of boots and shoes. It contains villages named North Abington and Abington, on the railroad. Pop. about 5000. Abington has a national bank. A weekly newspaper is published in this township, which has 5 churches.