Lynn, Massachusetts

Lynn grew into an industrial city on Massachusetts Bay, between Boston and Salem, on the strength of its shoemaking workshop...

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Lynn grew into an industrial city on Massachusetts Bay, between Boston and Salem, on the strength of its shoemaking workshops and factories. Walling and Gray's town plan of 1871 gives the nineteenth-century city its own detailed map, while Baedeker's maps of the Boston environs, from 1904 and 1909, place it among the coastal towns north of Boston.

Lynn grew into an industrial city on Massachusetts Bay, between Boston and Salem, on the strength of its shoemaking workshops and factories. Walling and Gray's town plan of 1871 gives the nineteenth-century city its own detailed map, while Baedeker's maps of the Boston environs, from 1904 and 1909, place it among the coastal towns north of Boston.