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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 486 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MALDEN , a See also:

city, including several villages, of See also:Middlesex See also:county, See also:Massachusetts, U.S.A., on the Malden See also:river, about 5 M. N. of See also:Boston. Pop. (189o), 23,031, (1900), 33,664, of whom 9513 were See also:foreign-See also:born, 3673 being See also:English Canadians, 87o English, and 617 Swedes; (1910 See also:census) 44,404. Malden had in 1906 a See also:land See also:area of 4.78 sq. m. It is served by the Boston & See also:Maine railroad, and by inter-See also:urban electric See also:railways. Although it is largely a residential suburb of Boston—its See also:post See also:office is a Boston sub-station—it has important manufacturing See also:industries. The most valuable manufactured product is See also:rubber boots and shoes. The See also:capital invested in manufacturing in 1905 was $5,553,432; and the value of the factory product, $11,235,635, was 70.2% greater than the value of the factory product in 1900. Among Malden's institutions are the public library (endowed by See also:Elisha S. Converse), the Malden See also:hospital, the Malden See also:day nursery, a See also:Young Men's See also:Christian Association, and a See also:home for the aged. A See also:fine See also:system of parks is maintained; the best known is possibly See also:Pine See also:Banks.

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north and See also:west is the Middlesex Fells, a See also:state See also:reservation; about 6o acres of this and about 20 acres of the Middlesex Fells Parkway See also:lie within Malden. Malden, when first settled about 164o, was See also:part of See also:Charlestown, and was known for some years as Mystic See also:Side. It was incorporated as a See also:town under the name of " Mauldon " in 1649, and was chartered as a city in 1881. The north part of Malden was set off in 18rso to See also:form See also:Melrose, and the See also:south part in r87o to form the'town of See also:Everett. Malden was the birthplace of Adoniram See also:Judson, the " apostle to See also:Burma." See also:Michael See also:Wigglesworth was pastor here from 1656 until 1705. See D. P. Corey, See also:History of Malden (Malden, 1899) ; and Malden, Past and See also:Present (Malden, 1899).

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