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HYDE PARK

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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 31 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HYDE See also:PARK , a small township of See also:Norfolk See also:county, See also:Massachusetts, U.S.A., about 8 m. S.W. of the business centre of See also:Boston. Pop. (189o) 10,193; (1900) 13,244, of whom 38o5 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (19ro See also:census) 15,507. Its See also:area is about 41 sq. m. It is traversed by the New See also:York, New Haven & See also:Hartford railway, which has large repair shops here, and by the Neponset See also:river and smaller streams. The township contains the villages of Hyde Park, Readville (in which there is the famous " \See also:Veil " trotting-track), Fairmount, Hazelwood and See also:Clarendon Hills. Until about 1856 Hyde Park was a farmstead. The value of the See also:total factory product increased from $4,383,959 in 1900 to $6,739,307 in 1905, or 53.7%. In 1868 Hyde Park was incorporated as a township, being formed of territory taken from See also:Dorchester, See also:Dedham and See also:Milton.

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