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Term: Massachusetts

Settled by Amerindians by 2nd mill. BCE; Norsemen may have landed here in 1003; Europeans fished here in 16th cen.; Plymouth Colony established by English in 1620; played key role in Revolution; was intellectual center of nation until mid-19th cen.

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Massachusetts, 1835 - 1916, Massachusetts
Salem, Massachusetts, 1862 - 1951, Salem, Massachusetts
Acushnet, Massachusetts, 1882 - 1961, Truro, Massachusetts
active Lenox, Massachusetts, 1869 - 1962, Boston