19 Facts About Lynn Massachusetts

An early industrial center, Lynn Massachusetts was long colloquially referred to as the "City of Sin", owing to its historical reputation for crime and vice.

Lynn Massachusetts is home to Lynn Massachusetts Heritage State Park, the southernmost portion of the Essex Coastal Scenic Byway, and the seaside, National Register-listed Diamond Historic District.

At the time of European contact, the area today known as Lynn Massachusetts was primarily inhabited by the Naumkeag people under the powerful sachem Nanepashemet who controlled territory from the Mystic to the Merrimack Rivers.

The area today encompassing Lynn Massachusetts was originally incorporated in 1629 as Saugus, the Massachusett name for the area.

Three years after the settlement in Salem, five families moved onto Naumkeag lands in the interior of Lynn Massachusetts, then known as Saugus, and the Tomlin family constructed a large mill between today's Sluice and Flax Ponds.

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In 1686, under pressure to demonstrate legal title for lands they occupied during the administrative restructuring of the Dominion of New England, the selectmen of Lynn Massachusetts and Reading purchased a deed from Wenopoykin's heirs Kunkshamooshaw and Quonopohit for 16 pounds of sterling silver, though by this time they and most surviving Naumkeag were residents of the Natick Praying Town.

Colonial Lynn Massachusetts was an early center of tannery and shoe-making, which began in 1635.

Lynn Massachusetts experienced a wave of immigration during the late 1800s and early 1900s.

When it opened to the public in 1910, Lynn Massachusetts Shore Drive catalyzed new development along Lynn Massachusetts's coastline, yielding many of the early 20th century structures that constitute a majority of the contributing resources found in the National Register-listed Diamond Historic District.

Many of the recent and pending large real estate projects in Lynn Massachusetts are Transit-oriented developments, sited within a half-mile of Lynn Massachusetts station, which provides 20-minute train service to North Station.

Lynn Massachusetts's revitalization has been bolstered by the city's emergence as a center of creative placemaking.

In recent years, Lynn Massachusetts has attracted a substantial and growing LGBT population.

Lynn Massachusetts's shoreline is divided in half by the town of Nahant, which divides Lynn Massachusetts Harbor to the south from Nahant Bay to the north.

Lynn Massachusetts is located in the southern part of Essex County and is 10 miles northeast of Boston and 22 miles west-southwest of Cape Ann.

Lynn Massachusetts is represented in the state legislature by officials elected from the following districts:.

Lynn Massachusetts was among the first communities in America to set aside a significant portion of its total land areas for open space—initially to secure a common public wood source.

In 1693, Lynn Massachusetts restricted use of areas today encompassed by the Lynn Massachusetts Woods Reservation, and imposed fines for removing young trees.

In 1881, a group of Lynn Massachusetts residents organized the Trustees of the Free Public Forest to protect Lynn Massachusetts Woods by acquiring land and gifting it to the City.

Lynn Massachusetts Woods was among the natural resources that inspired landscape architect Charles Eliot and others to create Boston's Metropolitan Park System.