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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 412 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MIDDLEBORO , a township of See also:

Plymouth See also:county, See also:Massachusetts, U.S.A., in the S.E. See also:part of the See also:state, bounded on the N.W. by the See also:Taunton See also:river. Pop. (1890), 6065; (1900), 6885—of whom 920 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910 See also:census) 8214. See also:Area,about 70 sq. m. The See also:principal See also:village also is named Middleboro; it is 35 M. S. of See also:Boston, is served by the New See also:York, New Haven & See also:Hartford railroad and by electric lines connecting with Taunton, Boston, New See also:Bedford and Cape See also:Cod, and has a See also:town-See also:house, a soldiers' See also:monument, and a public library housed in a See also:building erected from a fund (part of which is used as a permanent. endowment) bequeathed by See also:Thomas Sprout See also:Peirce (1823-1901), a See also:merchant of the township, who, in addition, bequeathed about $500,000 as a See also:special See also:trust-fund for the use and benefit of the town of Middleboro; the income has been spent largely in the construction of macadam roads, the erection of an See also:almshouse and the See also:installation of special courses in the high school. The village, a See also:place of considerable natural beauty, is a summer resort, and has various manufactures. Other villages in the township are See also:North, See also:East and See also:South Middleboro, and See also:Rock. The township had important See also:herring See also:fisheries in See also:early times and manufactured See also:straw hats (from 1828) and ladies' See also:dress goods. Middleboro was settled about 1662 under the See also:Indian name Nemasket; became a part of the township of Plymouth in 1663; and in 1669 was incorporated as a See also:separate township, taking its name probably from See also:Middlesbrough, North See also:Riding, York. See Thomas See also:Weston, See also:History of the Town of Middleboro, Massachusetts (Boston, 1906).

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