LYNN, tin. An important manufacturing, city in Essex County, Mass., 12 miles northeast of Boston; on Massachusetts Bay. and on the Boston and Maine and the Boston. Revere Beach and Lynn (narrow gauge) railroads (Map: Massachusetts, F 3). The city. .11 1-3 square miles in extent, is near several seaside resorts. It has a shore line of about three miles and a safe. though shallow. harbor. There are a fine City Hall. a children's home. Lynn Home for Aged Women, Lynn Hospital, a public library with about 60.000 volumes, a Soldiers' Monu ment, and Forest Park. Lynn is noted for its manufacturing interests, particularly in the line of boots and shoes, an industry which dates from 1750 and gradually has grown to great impor tance. Other extensive manufactures are morocco and leather, shoe manufacturers' supplies, elec trical appliances. machinery, foundry and ma chine-shop products, and patent medicines.
The city spends annually in maintenanee and operation nearly $1,350.000, the principai items
of expenditure being $245,000 for schools, $105, 000 for charitable institutions. $95,000 for the fire department. $85.000 for the police depart ment, $65,000 for the water-works, and $55,000 for municipal lighting. Lynn owns and operates the water-wo•ks, which were built in 1870 at a cost of nearly $2,500,000, the entire system now comprising 115 miles of mains. Population, in 1800, 2837; in 1850, 14,257; in 1870, 28,233; in 1880, 38,274; in 1890, 55,727; in 1900, 68,513, including 17,742 persons of foreign birth and 784 of negro descent. Settled in 1629, Lynn was known as Saugus until 1637, when its present name was adopted from Lynn Regis, England, the home of the second pastor. Samuel Whiting. In 1850 Lynn was organized as a city. Consult Newhall, History of Lynn, Massachusetts (Lynn, 1883).