North Adams, a manufacturing village of Massachusetts, picturesque situated on the Hoosac River, near the west end of the Hoosac Tunnel (q.v.), 143 miles by rail W. by N. of Boston. It has a large number of woollen and cotton mills, shoe and print-cloth factories, a foundry, &c. Pop. (1890) 16,074.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 521
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