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BROCKTON , a See also:

city of See also:Plymouth See also:county, See also:Massachusetts, U.S.A., about 20 ni. S. of See also:Boston, and containing an See also:area of 21 sq. m. of See also:rolling See also:surface. Pop. (1870) 8007; (1880)13,608; (1890) 27,294; (1900) 40,063, of whom 9484 were See also:foreign-See also:born, including 2667 Irish, 2199 See also:English Canadians and 1973 Swedes; (1910, See also:census) 56,878. It is served by the New See also:York, New Haven & See also:Hartford railway. Brockton has a public library, with 54,000 volumes, in 1908. By popular See also:vote, beginning in 1886 (except in 1898), the liquor See also:traffic was prohibited annually. The See also:death-See also:rate, 13.18 in 1907, is very See also:low for a manufacturing city of its See also:size. Brockton is the See also:industrial centre of a large See also:population surrounding it (See also:East and See also:West See also:Bridgewater, See also:North See also:Easton, See also:Avon, See also:Randolph, Holbrook and See also:Whitman), and is an important manufacturing See also:place. Both in 1900 and in 1905 it ranked first among the cities of the See also:United States in the manufacture of boots and shoes. The city's See also:total factory product in 1900 was valued at $24,855,362, and in 1905 at $37,790,982, an increase during the five years of 52 %. The See also:boot and See also:shoe See also:pro-duct in 1905 was valued at $30,073,014 (9.4 % of the value of the total boot and shoe product of the United States), the boot and shoe cut stock at $1,344,977, and the boot and shoe findings at $2,435,137—the three combined representing 89.6% of the city's total manufactured product.

In 1908 there were 35 shoe factories, including the W. L. See also:

Douglas, the Ralston, the Walkover, the See also:Eaton, the See also:Keith and the Packard establishments, and, in 1905, 14,000,000 (in 1907 about 17,000,000) pairs of shoes were produced in the city. Among the other products are lasts, blacking, See also:paper and wooden packing boxes, nails and spikes, and shoe fittings and tools. The assessed valuation of the city See also:rose from $6,876,427 in 1881 to $37,408,332 in 1907. Brockton was a See also:part of Bridgewater until 1821, when it was incorporated as the township of North Bridgewater. Its See also:present name was adopted in 1874, and it was chartered as a city in 1881. Brockton was the first city in Massachusetts to abolish all grade crossings (1896) within its limits.

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