History of Lynnfield, Massachusetts, USA

Lynnfield, Massachusetts
Essex county. The surface of this town is uneven, and the soil rather hard and unproductive. It contains some good farms, a number of pleasant ponds, and is watered by Ipswich river on the north. There is a woolen mill in the town, and manufactures of bar iron, ploughs, boots and shoes; annual value about $50,000. Incorporated, 1782.—Population, 1837, 674. Lynnfield is 12 miles N. from Boston and 9 W. by N. from Salem.

This town, formerly a part of Lynn, and with Lynn a part of Salem, is a farming town, although not favored by nature with a good soil.

Its seclusion from the great thoroughfares has probably prevented its increase.

Distance from Salem, 10 miles ; from Boston, 12.

Lynnfield, a post-township of Essex co., Mass., on the S. Reading Branch railroad, 13 miles N. by E. from Boston.- Pop., 1723.

Lynnfield lies in the southeasterly section of Essex County, 13 miles north of Boston, on. the old Boston and Newburyport turnpike. For railroads, it has the Salem and Lowell line, running along the valley of the Ipswich River, which forms its north line; the Newburyport line, through Lynnfield Centre; and the Wakefield and Peabody line through South Lynnfield, — all branches of the Boston and Maine Railroad system. North Reading bounds it on the north, Peabody on the east, Lynn, Saugus and Wake-field on the south, and Reading and North Reading on the west. The assessed area is 5,932 acres. More than one third is woodland, containing oak, maple and birch, with a large proportion of white pine. On the shores of Pilling's or Westerly Pond still stands the "forest primeval." The outlet of this pond furnished the power for the old Adam Hawkes Woollen Mill. Southeast of this is Suntaug Lake, of 200 acres, on the Peabody line, a beautiful sheet of water. Will's Brook flows north into the...

Lynn'field, a post-hamlet of Essex co., Mass., in Lynnfield township, on the Wakefield Branch Railroad, 6 miles W. of Salem. It has 2 churches. The township is intersected by the Newburyport division of the Boston & Maine Railroad, and by the Salem & Lowell Railroad. It has quarries of granite. Pop. 709.

Lynnfield, a post-village of Essex co., Mass., in Lynn- field township (town), on the Boston and Maine R., 6 miles W. of Salem. Pop. of the town in 1900, 888.