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CHELSEA , a See also:

city of See also:Suffolk See also:county, See also:Massachusetts, U.S.A., a suburb of See also:Boston. Pop. (189o) 27,909; (1900) 34,072, of whom 11,203 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910) 32,452. It is situated on a See also:peninsula between the Mystic and Chelsea See also:rivers, and See also:Charlestown and See also:East Boston, and is connected with East Boston and Charlestown by See also:bridges. It is served by the Boston & See also:Maine and (for See also:freight) by the Boston & Albanyrailways. The See also:United States maintains here See also:naval and marine hospitals, and the See also:state a soldiers' See also:home. Chelsea's interests are primarily See also:industrial. The value of the city's factory products in 1905 was $13,879,159, the See also:principal items being See also:rubber and elastic goods ($3,635,211) and boots and shoes ($2,044,250.) The manufacture of stoves, and of See also:mucilage and See also:paste are important See also:industries. Flexible tubing for electric wires (first made at Chelsea 1889) and See also:art tiles are important products. The first See also:settlement was established in 1624 by See also:Samuel Maverick (c. 1602-c. 1670), the first settler (about 1629) of Noddle's See also:Island (or East Boston), and one of the first slave-holders in Massachusetts; a loyalist and Churchman, in 1664 he was appointed with three others by See also:Charles II. on an important See also:commission sent to Massachusetts and the other New See also:England colonies (see See also:NicoLLS, See also:RICHARD), and spent the last years of his See also:life in New See also:York.

Until 1739, under the name of Winnisimmet, Chelsea formed a See also:

part of Boston, but in that See also:year it was made a township; it became a city in 1857. In May 1775 a See also:British See also:schooner in the Mystic defended by a force of See also:marines was taken by colonial See also:militia under See also:General See also:John See also:Stark and See also:Israel See also:Putnam; one of the first conflicts of the See also:War of See also:Independence. A terrible See also:fire swept the central part of the city on the 12th of See also:April 1908. See Mellen See also:Chamberlain (and others), See also:History of Chelsea (2 vols., Boston, 1908), published by the Massachusetts See also:Historical Society.

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