Lynn

Lynn, a city and port of Massachusetts, on Massachusetts Bay, 10 miles NNE. of Boston, with which it is connected by train and tramway. Most of the houses are built of wood; among them are many handsome villas belonging to Boston merchants. The principal industry is the manufacture of ladies' and children's shoes—mainly for the West and South—of which 10,000,000 pairs have been produced in one year. There are also large tanneries here. Though founded in 1629, Lynn became a city only in 1850. A great fire here in 1889 destroyed property worth $5,000,000. Pop. (1880) 38,274; (1890) 55,727.