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| The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07. |
| Weymouth |
(w ´m th) (KEY) , town (1990 pop. 54,063), Norfolk co., E Mass., a suburb of Boston on Hingham Bay; settled 1622, inc. 1635. The state’s second oldest settlement, it is chiefly residential. Electronic components, fertilizer, and chemicals are made. Weymouth also has a shoe industry which dates back to the 1850s. Abigail Adams was born in the town. |
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