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Title: A gazetteer of the state of Massachusetts : with numerous illustrations
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Nason, Elias, 1811-1887 Varney, George J. (George Jones), 1836-1901
Subjects: Massachusetts -- Gazetteers
Publisher: Boston : B.B. Russell
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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n $1,000. The population was2,520, of whom 695 are voters. The dwelling-houses number 646. Other villages not already mentioned are Quisset, Hatchville, High-field, Succonesset and Teatickett. The higher parts of the shoreshave many summer residences which adorn and enliven the scene.There is a new town-hall which cost $12,000. There are four publicschool-houses, valued at about $7,500, for the use of the schools,which are graded. The Lawrence Academy, at Falmouth Village,serves the town as a high school. There is an association library ofabout 3,000 volumes; with a church library and three possessed bythe Sunday schools. The churches here are numerous, the Congrega-tionalists having five; the Methodists, four; the Roman Catholics,two; the Friends, cue ; and the American Episcopal Church, alsoone. The Universalists have a camp-meeting ground at -Menau-hant. The Indian name of this place was Succannesset. It was earlysettled by white people, and was incorporated June 4, 1686, under its
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FANEUIL — FENNER HILL. 305 present name, which was derived from Falmouth, in England, Thefirst church was organized in 1708. This town was bombarded bythe British ship-of-war Nimrod in August, 1814, seven balls beingshot into the house of the Rev. Henry Lincoln, minister of the churchfrom 17U0 to 1823. Other houses also were damaged, but there wereno lives lost. Falmouth sent 71 soldiers and seamen into the national serviceduring the war for the Union, of whom 19 were lost. The town hasbeen the birth-place of many men distinguished for energy and ex-cellence of character, as well as for patriotism and talents. Among^those are General Joseph Dimmick, a soldier of the French and In-dian War and of the Revolution; and Samuel Lewis, lawyer andpreacher, and esteemed the father of the common school in Ohio. V cinCUll, a locality in the Brighton district of Boston. Farleyvilie, in Wendell. JT* cirmerSVllle, in Attleborough ; also in Sandwich. F„r.rY. ~P/-vr»r~l in Framingham, connected

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