The New Student's Reference Work/Arlington, Mass.

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Arlington, Mass., an attractive residential town in Middlesex County, situated on the Boston & Maine R. R., about seven miles northwest of Boston and connected with it by an electric railway. It has numerous fine buildings, including a well-equipped public library. Its chief industries besides market gardening, are ice=cutting and ice-tool manufacturing. Settled about the year 1650, it received its present name in 1867. See Cutter's History of the Town of Arlington. Population (1910), 11,187.

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