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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Chapter 6 : Essex County . (search)
Chapter 6: Essex County.
This county is bounded north-west by Rockingham County, New Hampshire; south-west by Middlesex County, south by Suffolk County, east and north-east by the Atlantic Ocean, and south-east by Massachusetts Bay.
Essex County is one of the most historical in the State, and the birthplace of many wise and great men. It has an extensive sea-coast, indented with numerous bays, inlets, and harbors; it has many delightful farms and beautiful ponds; it is to Eastern Massachusetts what Berkshire County is to Western Massachusetts,—a place of pleasant resort in the warm months of summer, to those who love the sea more than they do the valleys and the mountains.
In former years the chief interests of Essex County were foreign commerce and the fisheries.
At the present day, although the fishing interest holds its place, the foreign commerce of the county has in a great measure been transferred to Boston and New York.
It is now largely devoted to manufactures.
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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Chapter 13 : Plymouth County . (search)
Chapter 13: Plymouth County.
This ancient and historic county is bounded north-east and east by Massachusetts Bay, north by Norfolk county and Boston harbor, north-west by Norfolk county, west by Bristol county, and south-east and south by Buzzard's Bay and Barnstable county. The North River, emptying into Massachusetts Bay, Massachusetts Bay, and numerous branches of the Taunton are its chief rivers.
The shire town of the county, at which the courts are held, is Plymouth.
The county has a sea coast on Massachusetts Bay of between thirty and forty miles. The land is not so fertile as in some of the other counties in the Commonwealth, yet there is considerable good landMassachusetts Bay of between thirty and forty miles. The land is not so fertile as in some of the other counties in the Commonwealth, yet there is considerable good land within its limits.
The population of Plymouth county in 1860 was 64,758; in 1865, it was 63,074, being a decrease in five years of 1,684.
The valuation in 1860 was $29,160,937; in 1865 it was $27,932,058, being a decrease in five years of $1,228,879.
The county is divided into twenty-five townships, which, according to the re