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Fall River (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
Lat: 41 42 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 41.7000 decimal degrees |
Long: 071 09 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -71.1500 decimal degrees |
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Note: Located on mouth of Tauton River; site included in Freeman's Purchase from Amerindians by Plymouth colonists 1659 and settled 1686; important as textile center since 1811; site of notorious ax-murder trial of Lizzie Borden, aquitted of murder 1892. |
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Fall River (preferred,C,V)
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Fallriver (H,V)
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Freetown (H,V)
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Troy (H,V)
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Border City Village (C,V)
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Fall River Village (C,V)
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Pocasset (C,V)
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The Border City (C,V)
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inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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settled in 1656 |
city (C) |
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county seat (C) |
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in conjuction with New Bedford & Taunton |
industrial center (C) |
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manufacturing center (C) |
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textile center (C) |
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used river power to become major textile milling center by 1811 |
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