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FITCHBURG , a See also:city and one of the See also:county-seats of See also:Worcester county, See also:Massachusetts, U.S.A., situated, at an See also:altitude varying from about 433 ft. to about 550 ft., about 23 M. N. of Worcester and about 45 M. W.N.W. of See also:Boston. Pop. (188o) 12,429; (1890) 22,037; (1900) 31,531, of whom 10,917 were See also:foreign-See also:born,
including 4063 See also:French Canadians, 836 See also:English Canadians,
2306 Irish and 963 Finns; (19'o See also:census) 37,826. Fitchburg
is traversed by the N. See also:branch of the See also:Nashua See also:river, and is served by the Boston & See also:Maine, and the New See also:York, New Haven & See also:Hartford See also:railways, and by three interurban electric lines. The city See also:area (27.7 sq.m.) is well watered, and is very uneven, with See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill spurs See also:running in all directions, affording picturesque scenery. The See also:court See also:house and the See also:post See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office (in a See also:park presented by the citizens) are the See also:principal public buildings. Fitchburg is the seat of a See also:state normal school (1895), with See also:model and training See also:schools; has a See also:free public library (1859; in the See also:Wallace library and See also:art See also:building), the Burbank See also:hospital, the Fitchburg See also:home for old ladies, and an extensive See also:system of parks, in one of which is a See also:fine See also:fountain, designed by See also:Herbert See also:- ADAMS
- ADAMS, ANDREW LEITH (1827-1882)
- ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS (1807-1886)
- ADAMS, HENRY (1838— )
- ADAMS, HENRY CARTER (1852— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT (i858— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT BAXTER (1850—1901)
- ADAMS, JOHN (1735–1826)
- ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY (1767-1848)
- ADAMS, SAMUEL (1722-1803)
- ADAMS, THOMAS (d. c. 1655)
- ADAMS, WILLIAM (d. 162o)
Adams. Fitchburg has large See also:mercantile and See also:financial interests, but manufacturing is the principal See also:industry. The principal manufactures are See also:paper and See also:wood pulp, See also:cotton and woollen goods, See also:yarn and See also:silk, machinery, saws, See also:horn goods, and bicycles and firearms (the Iver See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson Arms and See also:Cycle See also:Works being located here). In 1905 the city's See also:total factory product was valued at $15,390,507, of which $3,019,118 was the value of the paper and wood pulp product, $2,910,572 was the value of the cotton goods, and $1,202,421 was the value of the foundry and See also:machine See also:shop products. The See also:municipality owns and operates its (gravity) See also:water works system. Fitchburg was included in Lunenburg until 1764, when it was incorporated as a township and was
named in See also:honour of See also:John See also:Fitch, a See also:citizen who did much to secure See also:incorporation; it was chartered as a city in 1872.
See W. A. See also:Emerson, Fitchburg, Massachusetts, Past and See also:Present (Fitchburg, 1887).
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