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  History of Attleboro, Massachusetts, USA

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(Attleborough) (South Attleboro)

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• 1634 - Attleborough is settled
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
• 1694 - Attleboro is incorporated
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
• 1839 - Attleborough
  Attleborough, Massachusetts
  This town lies at the N.W. corner of the county of Bristol; 12 miles N. from Providence, R.I., 8 N.W. from Taunton, and...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1845 - ATTLEBOROUGH. [Pop. 3,585. Settled 1694.]
  Attleborough, once a part of the ancient town of Rehoboth, is watered by a considerable branch of Blackstone River, and by other small streams,...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1854 - Attleborough
  Attleborough, a post-township of Bristol co. Massachusetts, on the Boston and Providence railroad, 31 miles S. S. E. from Boston, and 11 miles N. N....Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1859
  ATTLEBOROUGH, a post-town of Massachusetts, U. S., in Bristol co., 30 m. S of Boston. It is watered by some of the affluents of the Pawtucket river....Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1871 - Poisoned by Water
  A lady recently died in Attleboro, Mass., of poison taken, it is asserted, in small quantities by drinking water from a galvanized iron pipe.
  St Joseph Herald
  Saint Joseph, Michigan
  July 8, 1871
  
  
• Attleborough Massachusetts, 1890
  Attleborough is a town of many villages, devoted to a great variety of manufactures. It is situated in the northwestern part of Bristol County,...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1895 - Yardmaster Killed
  PROVIDENCE, Sept. 20. - JOSEPH DICKENS, yardmaster of the Consolidated railroad at Attleboro, Mass., was struck by a freight train yesterday...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1895 - Attleborough
  Attleborough, attel-bür'rüh, a post-village of Bristol co., Mass., in Attleborough township, on the Boston & Providence Railroad, and on a branch of...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1899 - Attleborough
  Attleborough. - This was the sixth town formed in Bristol county, the date being October 18, 1694, when it was taken from Rehoboth as the North...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Mechanics Pond
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  Attleboro, Mass. Attleborough Public Library.
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  Y.M.C.A. Bldg.
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  Old Peck House, owned by the Daughters of the American Revolution
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  N.Y. N.H. & H. R.R. Station
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  Factory Buildings from R.R. Station
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  Attleboro High School, 1907
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  St. Johns Church
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  Stone Bridge, Mechanics, Attleboro, Mass., 1907
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  Bates Block
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  Bronson Building
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  South Main Street, 1908
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  Grade Crossing Arch at Mill St., showing part of New Depots, 1909
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  Y.M.C.A., 1909
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  Post Office
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  Bank Street looking North
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  Bliss School
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  Casino, Capron Park
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  Main St. showing the New Bronson Building, 1910
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  Pilgrim Church
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  Attleboro Sanitarium
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  The Old Shuttle Factory
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  Park Street from Railroad Crossing. Attleboro, Mass.
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  Band Stand, Capron Park
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  Bliss Bros. Co., R.F. Simmons Co.
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  Leach & Garner Building
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• 1914 - Attleboro is incorporated as a city
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
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  Murray Church, 1914
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  Congregational Church (old and new)
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  The Horton Angell Factory
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• 1916
  Attleboro, at'tel-bur'ruh, a banking post-village and township (town) of Bristol co., Mass., on the New York, New Haven and Hartford R., 81 miles S....Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Largest Cement Stand Pipe in the World
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  Park Street from Main, 1920
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  Attleboro Springs
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  Sturdy Memorial Hospital
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•  1964 - EXPLOSION HITS PLANT; TWO KILLED
  Attleboro, Mass. (AP) - An explosion heard for miles leveled a chemical plant building Sunday night, inflicting death and injury on a Sunday...Read MORE...