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Encyclopedia Britannica



ATTLEBOROUGH

This article appears in Volume V02, Page 886 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ARN-AUD
ATTLEBOROUGH , a township of Bristol county, in south-
east
 
Massachusetts, U.S.A. Pop. (189o) 7577; (1900) 11,335, of
whom 3237 were foreign-born; (1910 census) 16,215 It is
traversed by the New
York
 , New Haven & Hartford railway, and by inter-urban electric lines. It has an area of 28 sq. m. The population is largely concentrated in and about the
village
  which bears the name of the township. In Attleborough are the Attleborough Home Sanitarium, and a public library (1885). The principal manufactures of the township are jewelry, silver-
ware
 ,
cotton
  goods,
cotton
  machinery, coffin trimmings, and leather. In 1905 the total value of the township's factory products was $10,050,384, of which $5,544,285 was the value of jewelry, Attleborough ranking fourth among the cities of the country in. this industry, and producing 10.4% of the total jewelry product of the United States. Attleborough was incorporated in 1694, though settled soon after 1661 (records since 1672) as part of Rehoboth. In 1887 the township was divided in population, wealth and area by the creation of the township of NORTH ATTLEBOROUGHpop. (1890) 6727; (1900) 7253, of whom 1786 were foreign-born; (1905, state census) 7878. This township produced manufactured goods in 1900 to the value of $3,990,731, jewelry valued at $2,785,567; it maintains the Richards memorial library.
See J. Daggett, A Sketch of the History of Attleborough to 1887 (Boston, 1894).


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