Marblehead, a seaport town of Massachusetts, on a rocky promontory, 18 miles NE. of Boston. Its share in the fisheries is no longer important, and the manufacture of boots and shoes is the chief industry. Pop. (1890) 8202.
Marblehead
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 37
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