Andover, Massachusetts, USA
1895 - Andover

Andover, a post-village of Essex co., Mass, is in Andover township, and on the Boston & Maine Railroad, 23 miles N. of Boston, and about 10 miles E. of Lowell. It contains a savings-bank, a national bank, the Abbott Female Academy, a free public library of 11,500 volumes, and a liberally endowed institution called Phillips Academy, which was founded in 1778, and has an attendance of about 350 students annually. It is also the seat of Andover Theological Seminary, which was founded in 1807 and is under the control of the Congregationalists. This seminary has an endowment of $550,000 and a library of about 30,000 volumes. The number of students is nearly 100, and the number of alumni about 2000. It has 12 professors. The seminary and academy are under the same board of trustees, and have a productive property of about $500,000, and an unproductive property of about $300,000.

Andover township is bounded on the N.W. by the Merrimac River, and is intersected by the Lowell & Lawrence Railroad. It has 2 woollen-factories, 2 flax-mills, and 9 churches. It contains also villages named Ballard Vale, Frye Village, and West Andover Village. From Lowell Junction, within the limits of this town, the Lowell & Andover Railroad extends 10 miles to Lowell. Pop, in 1880, 5169; in 1890, 6142.

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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