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ATTLEBOROUGH , a township of See also:

Bristol See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county, in See also:

south-See also:

east See also:

MASSACHUSETTS (an Indian name, originally applied to a tribe of Indians)

Massachusetts, U.S.A. Pop. (189o) 7577; (1900) 11,335, of whom 3237 were See also:

FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born; (1910 See also:

CENSUS (from Lat. censere, to estimate or assess; connected by some with centum, i.e. a count by hundreds)

census) 16,215 It is traversed by the New See also:

York, New Haven & See also:

HARTFORD

Hartford railway, and by inter-See also:

urban electric lines. It has an See also:

AREA

area of 28 sq. m. The See also:

POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population is largely concentrated in and about the See also:

VILLAGE

village which bears the name of the township. In Attleborough are the Attleborough See also:

Home Sanitarium, and a public library (1885). The See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal manufactures of the township are See also:

JEWELRY (O. Fr. jouel, Fr. joyau, perhaps from joie, joy; Lat. gaudium; retranslated into Low Lat. jocale, a toy, from jocus, by misapprehension of the origin of the word)

jewelry, See also:

SILVER

silver-See also:

WARE

ware, See also:

cotton goods, cotton machinery, See also:

COFFIN (from Lat. cophinus, Gr. K64wos, a coffer, chest or basket, but never meaning " coffin " in its present sense)

coffin trimmings, and See also:

leather. In 1905 the See also:

TOTAL

total value of the township's factory products was $10,050,384, of which $5,544,285 was the value of jewelry, Attleborough ranking See also:

FOURTH

fourth among the cities of the See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country in. this See also:

INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry, and producing 10.4% of the total jewelry product of the See also:

UNITED

United States. Attleborough was incorporated in 1694, though settled soon after 1661 (records since 1672) as See also:

PART

part of Rehoboth. In 1887 the township was divided in population, See also:

WEALTH

wealth and area by the creation of the township of See also:

NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH—pop. (1890) 6727; (1900) 7253, of whom 1786 were foreign-born; (1905, See also:

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 See also:

Richards memorial library.

See J. Daggett, A See also:

SKETCH (directly adapted from Dutch schets, which was taken from Ital. schizzo, a rough draft, Lat. schedium, something hastily made, Gr. oxE&os, sudden, off-hand, axeb6v, near by; Ger. Skizze and Fr. esquisse are from the same source)

Sketch of the See also:

HISTORY

History of Attleborough to 1887 (See also:

Boston, 1894).

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