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Title: The American educator; completely remodelled and rewritten from original text of the New practical reference library, with new plans and additional material
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Foster, Ellsworth D., ed Hughes, James L. (James Laughlin), 1846-1935
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: Chicago, Ralph Durham Co.
Contributing Library: Internet Archive
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ese Island;the state infirmary at Tewksbury, the statefarm at Bridgewater, a hospital for epilep-tics at Monson, a prison camp and hospitalat Rutland, a hospital for inebriates at Fox-borough and several industrial schools forboys and girls, such as the Lyman Schoolfor Boys at Westborough and the IndustrialSchool for Girls at Lancaster. Cities. Massachusetts has more largetowns than any other state in the Union.There are forty municipalities with popula-tions over 15,000, and 103 with more than5,000 people in 1910. The first ten, in order ofsize, are Boston, the capital; Worcester, FallRiver, New Bedford, Lowell, Cambridge,Springfield, Lynn, Lawrence and Somerville. History. The coast of Massachusetts wasprobably explored by the Norseman aboutA. D. 1000; by the Cabqts in 1497; by Bar-tholomew Gosnold, who attempted to makea settlement on the Elizabeth Islands in 1601,and by John Smith in 1614. But a per-manent settlement was not made until 1620, MASSACHUSETTS t ^A^Afrm^. THE BAT STATE
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Canopy over Plymouth Rock 2275 MASSACHUSETTS 2276 MASSACHUSETTS BAY when about one hundred English Sep-aratists, known as Puritans in England, whohad gone several years before to Holland,vainly seeking a home there, sought to foundone in the New World, and landed at Ply-mouth. In 1630 another company of Puri-tans, also from England, settled at Salem,and this village, with other settlements, madesoon at Boston and elsewhere, formed theMassachusetts Bay Colony. Two contrary principles were conspicu-ous in the life of the Massachusetts BayColony, one an insistence upon political self-government, the other a rigid adherence toreligious intolerance. However, some of itsleaders were among the most admirable fig-ures in early American historj. Religiousintolerance led to the banishment of EogerWilliams and Anne Hutchinson about 1636,the persistent persecution of the Quakersand, later, of the supposed witches. Numer-ous Indian wars caused great suffering dur-ing the seventeenth century. In 16

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