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1889
Lawyers
8 Merrimack
Union Old Lowell National Bank
1828
Banking
61 Merrimack
(formerly Old Lowell Natl. Bank and Union Bank)
1899
Machinists
587 Middlesex
Washington Savings Institution
1892
Banking
30 Middlesex
Weaver Frank L. & Son
1871
Roofers
53 Central
Whidden Graham R.
1898
Insurance
45 Merrimack
Wilder Grain Co. Inc.
1880
Grain
11 Middlesex Pl.
Wilson E. A. Co.
1892
Coal
700 Bway.
Wilson Wm. H.
Lawyer
9 Central
Wood-Abbott Co.
1872
Jewelers
135 Central
(formerly Geo. H. Wood)
Woodward Chas. N.
1898
Broker
9 Central
Walsh R. Brabrook
Lawyer
28 Central
Upton & Gilman Machine Co.
27 Central
757 Bridge 204 Merrimack
Dutton St. 228 Central
40 48 Lee
1012 Gorham 52 Central
24 Prince 1 Cushing 24 Westford 226 Central
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City Directory Statistical Review
Suggested and Planned by American Community Advertising Association Adopted by Association of North American Directory Publishers
This information furnished through the courtesy of the Lowell Chamber of Commerce, ANDREW A. McCARTHY, Secretary
LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS
"The City of Diversified Industries"
Form of Government: Mayor and City Council.
Population: 101,820 (U. S. Census 1934).
Area : Fourteen and one-half square miles.
Altitude: 100 feet.
Assessed Valuation: $110,340,750.00.
White Population: Approximately 101,000.
Colored Population: Negligible.
Predominating Nationalities in City: American, Irish, French and Greek. Parks: 54 with 275.022 acres. Valued at $1,385,030.16.
City's Bonded Debt: $5,057,956.18.
Post Office Receipts: $350,123.26.
Telephones in Service: 18,656.
Church Buildings: Sixty-seven.
Building and Construction: Value of permits $234,868.00 with 350 permits issued including new buildings and alterations.
Industry: Number of establishments 405, employing 28,211 men and women paying wages of over $35,000,000 annually.
Trade: Territory (Retail) serves 250,000 people within the trading area cov- ering a radius of twenty-five miles.
Hotels: There are four hotels with total of 224 rooms.
City Served by: Boston and Maine and New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroads and many interstate bus lines.
Amusements : Memorial Auditorium seats 4,000 people. There are eight theatres, with a total seating capacity of approximately 11,000 people. The most recent acquisition to the amusement enterprise of the city is the so-called Rex Amusement Centre with a most complete equipment for physical development, as well as an auditorium with a seating capacity of 2,000.
Hospitals: Seven with 481 beds.
Education: Number of schools 73, including one high school. Number of pupils 13,696. Total number of teachers 507. Value of public school property $4,531,340.00.
Libraries: There are 120,000 volumes in the libraries of the city.
City Statistics: Total street mileage 227.19 with 106.06 miles paved. Miles of gas mains laid 201, of sewers 144.37, street railway busses, 65. Capacity of water works (municipal) 10,000,000 gallons, daily average pump 5,000,- 000 gallons with 180 miles of mains.
Fire Department: Employs 186 men with eleven engines, four trucks, one protective and three hose companies in fourteen station houses. Value of fire department with property $526,050.
Police Department: Has 190 men with one station and seventeen pieces of motor equipment.
Radio Station: Lowell is definitely established as a link in the chain of broad- casting stations in the country through WLLH "The Voice of the Merri- mack Valley", 219 meters, 1370 kilocycles. In addition to a modern and splendidly equipped station in Lowell the management also contemplates establishing transmitting studios in the nearby cities of Lawrence and Haverhill.
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LOWELL THREE HUNDRED YEARS
By Frederick W. Coburn, author of "A History of Lowell and Its People" (1920)
The City of Lowell will be 100 years old in 1936. The Town of Lowell was incorporated 10 years before the place became a city-in 1826. Three hundred years ago, in 1636, the first white settlers of the present Lowell neighborhood, who occupied land on the Shawsheen river in what are now Billerica and Tewksbury, were in contact with the Indians who held all the territory that is now the City of Lowell.
Where two rivers abounding with fish came together, the Merrimack and the Concord, the Indians dwelt in the metropolis of this region long before the white men came. They were of two tribes; the Wamesits, whose wigwams were on the Concord river around the present Fort Hill, and the Pawtuckets, whose headquarters were at the falls in the Merrimack now bearing their name. Both tribes were under Passaconaway, the great chieftain of this region who embraced Christianity, and his son Wannalancit, who was a firm friend of the whites. John Eliot, the apostle to the Indians, preached Christ on what is now the South Common.
In spite of the friendliness of the Indians they suffered from the hysteria of the English settlers during King Philip's war in 1676, many of them ran away to Canada and those who were left began selling their lands to the white men soon after the war. The level tract between the rivers, which is now downtown Lowell, was bought in strips by residents of the nearby town of Chelmsford. This was known during the 18th century as the Wamesit Purchase. It consisted of farms, belong- ing to Chelmsford, many of whose sons fought in the French and Indian Wars and in the Revolution. The only village on the south side of the Merrimack was the hamlet of East Chelmsford at the head of the falls and opposite the village of West Dracut-in both of which, now a part of Lowell, may still be seen a few homes built before the Revolution.
After American Independence was secured things began to happen in the neigh- borhood where Lowell was presently to be. About 1784, merchants of Newbury, down river, got permission from the legislature to cut a canal from the Merrimack above Pawtucket falls to the Concord just above its mouth. With proper locks this canal enabled boats to pass upriver and rafts of logs to come down without being broken to pieces in the rapids. In 1792 the Massachusetts legislature authorized the construction of the Middlesex Canal from the Merrimack in what was then Chelmsford to tidewater at Charlestown. This canal was opened to navigation in 1803. At the northern end a considerable settlement grew up under the name Mid- dlesex Village. This is now a district of Lowell. Woolen mills, meantime, were already in operation on the Concord river and its tributary, Hale's brook. The Chelmsford glass works on the Middlesex Canal imported Bohemian glass blowers and was for some years a successful enterprise. During the war of 1812 manu- facture of gunpowder was started by Oliver Whipple at a factory on the Concord. These and several other enterprises were in existence before the locality was called Lowell.
After peace was declared in 1815 Americans began to be interested in the cotton manufacture, already well established in England. One who had studied the factory system abroad was Francis Cabot Lowell, of Boston, who with Patrick Tracy Jackson set up a model cotton mill at Waltham. They were already making a success of this when Lowell died. He in all probability never saw the place that was later named for him, but members of his family have been interested in it.
Lowell's surviving associates about 1820 realized that the Charles river could not develop the power they needed for an expanding industry. They looked for a more favorable location. The Kennebec in Maine was considered, but when a New- buryport man called their attention to the available water power at Pawtucket Falls, where a canal was already in existence, they became interested in this possibility. In the autumn of 1821 Thomas M. Clark, a director of the Pawtucket canal, quietly bought from the farmers a number of titles of the old Wamesit Neck Proprietorship.
The Boston capitalists who intended to make a new use of these lands had mean- while engaged an efficient general manager for their undertaking, Kirk Boott, born in Boston of English parents, a former soldier in the Duke of Wellington's army. They incorporated in 1822 the Merrimack Manufacturing Company and at once sent Boott out to East Chelmsford to dig a lateral canal from the old Pawtucket canal and build a cotton mill close to the Merrimack. Boott met there a group of hardy Irish laborers led by Hugh Cummisky, who with picks over their shoulders walked out of a warm spring forenoon from Boston. Kirk Boott, who was a born driver, wanted them to begin work that afternoon, but they threatened to go on strike. Then, somebody whispering a word in his ear, the young manager invited the whole crowd into a restaurant for lunch, and they all came out smiling and ready to swing their picks over what is now the Merrimack canal.
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By 1826 Kirk Boott was dictator of a thriving manufacturing village whose people objected to doing town business at Chelmsford Centre, four miles away. He had already brought together some of the best mechanical talent of the time. Being himself a Church of England man he arranged for building an Episcopal church modeled after one at Derby, England, at which his family had worshipped; and to St.Anne's Church, as this was consecrated, he called a young clergyman, Rev. Theodore Edson, who began a rectorship of 60 years. Many of the Irish laborers remained to be residents of the district later known as the Acre, and Boott and his supporters aided them to provide for worship after their Catholic faith. As early as 1824 application was made to the legislature to set off the new village as a separate township. This finally was granted, and on March 1, 1826, the permission became operative. Some would have liked to call the place Wamesit; Kirk Boott's own first choice was "Derby", but when he was urged to call it "Lowell," after the friend of several of his directors, he accepted this name, and Lowell it was. The first town meeting of Lowell voters took place March 2, 1826, its records kept by Samuel A. Coburn, who was the only town clerk, and the first city clerk, of Lowell. His portrait hangs in the City Clerk's office at City Hall.
The success of the Merrimack Manufacturing Company brought more corpora- tions to Lowell: the Hamilton, incorporated, 1825; Appleton, 1828; Lowell Manufac- turing Company (carpets), 1828, and others. The settlement spread over the present business district of Lowell to the east side of the Concord river (where the Memorial Auditorium now is). This was then a fine estate developed by Judge Edward Liver- more who called it Belvidere. After his death in 1832 his land was divided into houselots and streets by two young real estate operators from New Hampshire, John and Thomas Nesmith, who built for themselves distinguished mansions still stand- ing. The public school system at Lowell grew out of a disagreement between Rev. Dr. Edson, who served on the town school committee, and Kirk Boott, who did not believe in taxing the public for education. As a result of Dr. Edson's victory in town meeting the Edson, Bartlett and Mann graded schools were built. The first named, on the South Common, is still in use.
In 1830, Patrick Tracy Jackson, a Boston capitalist and friend of Kirk Boott, began to work for a railroad connecting Boston and Lowell-one of the first in the United States. With great difficulty he financed it and in the early 1830's con- structed the present main line of the Boston and Maine Railroad between the two cities. He brought to a machine shop of the Locks & Canals Company, Lowell, one of the most famous of mechanical experts, Maj. George Washington Whistler, who had studied locomotive construction in England. While the road was com- pleting, Maj. Whistler built at Lowell two engines for service on the new line. The Boston and Lowell service was successfully opened May 27, 1835.
The town of Lowell in ten years had grown big enough for incorporation as a city, and on April 1, 1836, Governor Edward Everett signed an act making it such. This was accepted by the voters on April 11 following, and Elisha Bartlett was elected the first Mayor of Lowell. The new city continued to grow rapidly during the 1840's and 1850's. The water power of the place was largely increased through the genius of James Bicheno Francis, an English-born engineer who came to Lowell as a youth with Maj. Whistler and who remained after the latter had gone else- where, being invited in 1842 to build for the Czar of Russia the railway connect- ing St.Petersburg and Moscow. Mr. Francis turned his attention from locomotive building to hydraulics and became the world's foremost specialist in water power. One of his achievements in 1845-8, was the construction of the guard locks at Paw- tucket Falls, protecting the city from danger of flood, and of the Northern canal with the sightly canal walk, which was a civic attraction and which greatly in- creased the available power for the mills.
Lowell mill girls in 1841 began publishing a little operatives' magazine, the Offering, which was so well edited and printed that it attracted international at- tention. The name of one of its foremost contributors, Lucy Larcom, poet, is per- petuated in Lucy Larcom park, facing on the old Merrimack canal. A Lowell political orator in 1848 who made an impression, though nobody had then heard much about him, was a man from Illinois. His name was Abraham Lincoln.
Lowell had become a centre of anti-slavery interest, though some of its best people were opposed to policies offensive to the South; and when the Civil war finally broke out no northern city took a more active part in the war. The financing of the departure of Massachusetts troops for defence of Washington was made possible by James G. Carney, Lowell banker. The Sixth Massachusetts Regiment, composed of men from Lowell and vicinity, was attacked by rioters in Baltimore, April 19, 1861, and of four men killed, two, Addison O. Whitney and Luther C. Ladd, were citizens of Lowell. Their monument is conspicuous in Monument Square in front of the city hall. The services of Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, of Lowell, in the war that followed are known to everybody; it is not so generally known that the great "sanitary fair" organized in 1863 by Lowell women under the style of a Soldiers' Aid Association, started something which was copied throughout the North and which added greatly to the safety and morale of the men at the front.
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After the Civil war Lowell prospered for many years, and its population be- came more and more cosmopolitan. The workers in the mills and machine shops at first were either New England Yankees, Irish, or English from Lancashire and Gloucestershire. About 1855, a few French speaking Americans from Lake Cham- plain settled in Lowell, and after the war came many of the Canadian French. In the early 1880's arrived a few Greeks, at first as candy and fruit merchants. About ten years later many of them began to apply for work in the mills. Some German and Austrian Hebrews were in Lowell before 1880; in 1891 came a considerable influx of Jews driven from Russia by persecution. Scandinavians, Poles, Armenians, Syrians and Portuguese and other nationalities became numerous by the end of the century. The Central Labor Union was formed in 1887. Workers speaking many languages and engaged in many lines of manufactures made up one of the most cosmopolitan of American cities-and the statistics show one of the most orderly.
In territory Lowell took in, in 1874, much of the western part of the old town of Dracut, north of the river. It already had the Centralville district, which originally was in Dracut. More of Tewksbury was added to Belvidere, and Middlesex Village was annexed from Chelmsford. In this century came the last annexation from Tewksbury.
Except for a brief strike in 1903 Lowell grew and throve at a normal rate down to the first years of the World War when a sudden rush of war orders brought thousands of newcomers to its workshops. The city became one vast munition shop. Cartridges by the million were made in the former Bigelow Carpet mills; military overcoating and other governmental textile orders were executed on a hugh scale. No city gave, for its size, better support to the Liberty Loans than Lowell; it, and the surrounding towns, sent thousands of sons into the A.E.F. For months after the Armistice the city was still a very busy workshop.
Lowell since the World War has lost a few thousands of its peak population, and some of the historic textile manufacturers have closed down, due to too many spindles in the nation, and to the competition of other nations. The former Lowell Machine Shop, which under a consolidation became the Saco-Lowell Shops, was very active about 1920, making high grade textile machinery, much of it for export to Japan and China. Since then the shops themselves have been closed, and in part torn down; the large sales of Lowell-made machinery to the orientals may have been injurious to Lowell and, some think, to the U. S. A.
Things worth seeing in Lowell are almost too numerous to mention. At the Lowell Textile Institute can be observed under one roof specimens of about all the machinery and processes that gave Lowell its start as a manufacturing centre. Among the literary and artistic landmarks are the Whistler House, 247 Worthen street, where James McNeil Whistler, internationally famous artist and wit, was born, and where the Lowell Art Association shows works of art; the stone house in Ames street where the poet Poe visited the then owners, Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Richmond; the house on Gorham Street where was born William Cardinal O'Connell, and in the Cardinal O'Connell parkway, near City Hall, his sculptured likeness; the beautiful residence in Belvidere of the late General Benjamin F. Butler.
Lowell has had many historians; their works can be consulted by the interested visitor at the City Library and the adjacent rooms of the Lowell Historical Society.
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POPULATION OF MASSACHUSETTS
UNITED STATES CENSUS OF 1930. STATE CENSUS OF 1935 Total, in 1930, 4,249,614, Total, in 1935, 4,350,915.
* Cities designated by an asterisk.
Shire towns in Bold Face Type.
TOWNS
1930
1935
TOWNS
1930
1935
TOWNS
1930
1935
BARNSTABLE
Barnstable
7,271
8,037
Acushnet
4,092
3,951
Bourne
2,895
3,336
*Attleboro
21,769
21,835
Brewster
769
715
Berkley
1,120
1,156
Chatham
1,931
2,050
Dartmouth
8,778
9,424
Dennis
1,829
2,017
Dighton
3,147
3,116
Eastham
543
606
Easton
5,298
5,294
Newbury *Newburyport
15,084
14,815
Harwich
2,329
2,373
Mashpee
361
380
Freetown
1,656
1,813
Rockport
3,630
3,634
Provincetown
3,808
4,071
*New
Bedford
112,597
110,022
*Salem
43,353
43,472
Norton
2,737
2,925
Saugus
14,700
15,076
Raynham
2,136
2,208
Swampscott
10,346
10,484
Rehoboth
2,610
2,777
Topsfield
986
1,113
Somerset
5,398
5,656
Swansea
3,941
4,327
*Taunton
37,355
37,431
Westport
4,408
4,355
498,040
504,487
Adams
12,697
12,858
Alford
200
210
Becket
672
723
Cheshire
1,697
1,660
Clarksburg
1,296
1,333
Dalton
4,220
4,282
DUKES
Ashfield
860
918
Bernardston
893
975
Buckland
1,497
1,540
Charlemont
816
923
Colerain
1,391
1,554
Lanesboro
1,170
1,237
Lee
4,061
4,178
West Tisbury
270
282
Erving
1,263
1,283
Gill
983
995
MtWashington
60
64
4,953
5,700
15,500
15,903
Hawley
313
308
New Marlboro
864
921
ESSEX
Amesbury
11,899
10,514
*Pittsfield
49,677
47,516
*Beverly
25,086
25,871
Montague
8,081
7,967
Richmond
583
628
Boxford
652
726
New Salem
414
443
Sandisfield
412
471
Danvers
12,957
13,884
Northfield
1,888
1,950
Savoy
307
299
Essex
1,465
1,486
5,365
5,383
Sheffield
1.650
1,810
Georgetown
1,853
2,009
Rowe
298
277
Stockbridge
1,762
1,921
*Gloucester
24,204
24,164
Shelburne
1,544
1,606
Tyringham
246
243
Groveland
2,336
2,219
Shutesbury
222
239
Washington
222
252
Hamilton
2,044
2,235
Sunderland
1,159
1,182
W. Stockbridge
1,124
1,138
*Haverhill
48,710
49,516
Warwick
367
565
Williamstown
3,900
4,272
Ipswich
5,599
6,217
Wendell
353
393
Windsor
387
412
*Lawrence
85,068
86,785
Whately
1,136
1,133
*Lynn
.102,320
100,909
Lynnfield
1,594
1,896
49,612
51,039
Middleton
1,712
1,975
Nahant
1,654
1,748
Falmouth
4,821
6,537
Fairhaven
10,951
11,005
North Andover
6,961
7,164
*Peabody
21,345
22,082
Orleans
1,181
1.425
Mansfield
6,364
6,543
Rowley
1,356
1,495
Sandwich
1,437
1,516
Truro
513
541
Wellfleet
823
948
Yarmouth
1,794
2,095
32,305
36,647
BERKSHIRE
Egremont
513
569
Florida
307
405
Great Barrington
5,934
6,369
Hancock
361
408
Hinsdale
1,144
1,144
Oak Bluffs
1,333
1,657
Conway
900
952
Deerfield
2,882
2,963
Lenox
2,742
2,706
Monterey
321
325
New Ashford
75
94
*North Adams
21,621
22,085
Otis
367
Peru
108
151
Andover
9,969
10,542
Monroe
218
240
Heath
331
368
Leverett
677
726
Leyden
261
253
Seekonk
4,762
5,011
Wenham
1,119
1,196
West Newbury
1,549
1,475
364,590
366,465
Chilmark
252
253
Edgartown
1,276
1,399
Gay Head
161
158
Gosnold
120
129
Tisbury
1,541
1,822
North Attleboro
10,197
10,202
Salisbury
2,194
2,245
** Fall River
115,274
117,414
Marblehead
8,668
10,173
Merrimac
2,392
2,209
Methuen
21,069
21,073
1,530
1,576
BRISTOL
Manchester
2,636
2,509
120,700
121,099
415
FRANKLIN
Greenfield
Orange
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POPULATION OF MASSACHUSETTS
TOWNS
1930
1935
TOWNS
1930
1935
TOWNS
1930
1935
HAMPDEN
Agawam
7,095
7,206
Blandford
545
469
Brimfield
884
892
Chester
1,464
1,362
North Reading
1,945
2,321
Rockland
7,524
7,890
*Chicopee
43,930
41,952
Granville
674
704
Shirley
2,427
2,548
Whitman
7,638
7,591
*Somerville
103,908
100,773
*Holyoke
56,537
56,139
Stoneham
10,060
10,841
162,311
166,329
SUFFOLK
*Boston
.781,188
817,713
*Chelsea
45,816
42,673
* Revere
35,680
35,319
Russell
1,237
1,283
Southwick
1,461
1,540
*Springfield
149,900
149,642
Watertown
34,913
35,827
879,536
912,706
WORCESTER
Ashburnham
2,079
2,051
Athol
10,677
10,751
Auburn
6,147
6,535
Barre
3,510
3,509
Berlin
1,075
1,091
Blackstone
4,674
4,588
Bolton
764
739
Boylston
1,097
1,361
Belchertown
3,139
3,863
Chesterfield
420
445
Cummington
531
610
Easthampton
11,323
10,486
NORFOLK
Dana
505
387
Douglas
2,195
2,403
Granby
891
956
Greenwich
238
219
Hadley
2,682
2,711
Hatfield
2,476
2.433
Huntington
1,242
1,345
Middlefield
197
220
*Northampton
24,381
24,525
Pelham
455
504
Plainfield
306
332
Holbrook
3,353
3,364
Hubbardston
1,010
1,000
Prescott
48
18
Medfield
4,066
4,162
Lancaster
2,897
2,590
Southampton
931
954
Medway
3,153
3,268
Leicester
4,445
4,426
*Leominster
21,810
21,894
Lunenburg
1,923
2,124
Mendon
1,107
1,265
Milford
14,741
15,008
Millbury
6,957
6,879
Plainville
1,583
1,607
Millville
2,111
1,901
*Quincy
71,983
76,909
New Braintree
407
436
Randolph
6,553
7,580
Northboro
1,946
2,396
Sharon
3,351
3,683
9,713
10,577 3,186
Walpole
7,273
7,449
502
441
Oxford
3,943
4,249
Ashland
2,397
2,497
Westwood
2,097
2,537
672
731
Ayer
3,060
3,861
Bedford
2,603
3,185
Wrentham
3,584
4,160
357
423
Belmont
21,748
24,831
Billerica
5,880
6,654
299,426
320,827
PLYMOUTH
Abington
5,872 5,696
Bridgewater
9,055
9,201
Spencer
6,272
6,487
Sterling
1,502
1,556
Dracut
6,912
6,500
Carver
1,381
1,559
Sturbridge
1,772
1,918
Dunstable
384
419
Duxbury
1,696
2,244
Sutton
2,147
2,408
*Everett
48,424
47,228
E. Bridgewater
3,591
3,670
Templeton
4,159
4,302
Framingham
22,210
22,651
Halifax
728
817
Upton
2,026
2,163
Groton
2,434
2,534
Hanover
2,808
2,709
Uxbridge
6,285
6,397
Holliston
2,864
2,925
Hanson
2,184
2,417
Warren
3,765
3,662
Hopkinton
2,563
2,616
Hingham
6,657
7,330
Webster
12,992
13,837
Hudson
8,469
8,495
Hull
2,047
2,619
Westboro
6,409
6,073
Lexington
9,467
10,813
Kingston
2,672
2,743
West Boylston
2,114
2,158
Lincoln
1,493
1,573
Lakeville
1,574
1,443
W. Brookfield
1,255
1,258
Littleton
1,447
1,530
Marion
1,638
1,867
Westminster
1,925
1,965
*Lowell
100,234
100,114
Marshfield
1,625
2,073
Winchendon
6,202
6,603
*Malden
58,036
57,277
Mattapoisett
1,501
1,682
*Worcester
.195,311
190,471
*Marlboro
15,587
15,781
Middleboro
8,608
8,865
Maynard
7,156
7,107 |Norwell
1,519
1,666
491,242
495,562
Pembroke
1,492
1,621
*Melrose
23,170
24,256
Plymouth
13,042
13,183
Natick
13,589
14,394
Plympton
511
558
*Newton
65,276
66,144
Rochester
1,141
1,229
Scituate
3,118
3,846
E. Longmeadow
3,327
3,375
Sherborn
943
994
Hampden
684
854
Holland
137
201
Longmeadow
4,437
5,105
Sudbury
1,182
1,638
Monson
4,918
5,193
Townsend
1,752
1,942
Montgomery
141
174
Palmer
9,577
9,437
Wakefield
16,318
16,494
Winthrop
16,852
17,001
*Waltham
39,247
40,557
Tolland
134
141
Wayland
2,937
3,346
Westford
3,600
3,789
Wales
360
382
Weston
3,332
3,848
Wilmington
4,013
4,493
Winchester
12,719
13,371
*Woburn
19,434
19,695
335,496
333,495
HAMPSHIRE
Amherst
5,888
6,473
NANTUCKET
Nantucket
3,678
3,495
Charlton
2,154
2,366
Clinton
12,817
12,373
Enfield
497
495
Avon
2,414
2,362
Bellingham
3,189
3,056
Braintree
15,712
17,122
Brookline
47,490 50,319
Canton
5,816
6,505
Cohasset
3,083
3,418
Dedham
15,136
15,371
Hardwick
2,460
2,379
Dover
1,195
1,305
Harvard
987
952
Holden
3,871
3,914
Hopedale
2,973
3,068
South Hadley
6,773
6,838
Ware
7,385
7,727
Westhampton
374
405
Williamsburg
1,891
1,859
Worthington
485
530
72,801
74,205
MIDDLESEX
Acton
2,482
2,635
Arlington
36,094
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