City of Lynn

Lynn is the eighth-largest municipality in Massachusetts, United States, and the largest city in Essex County. Situated on the Atlantic Ocean, 3.7 miles north of the Boston city line at Suffolk Downs, Lynn is part of Greater Boston's urban inner core and is a major economic and cultural center of the North Shore.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lynn Public Library and Grand Army of the Republic Hall.

Lynn Public Library

Library

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The Lynn Public Library building is a historic library at Five North Common Street in Lynn, Massachusetts. Although library services were offered in Lynn as early 1815, it was not until a bequest in 1896 that the city began planning a permanent home for the growing collection.

Grand Army of the Republic Hall

Museum

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The Grand Army of the Republic Hall, also known as the General Frederick W. Lander Post No. 5, Grand Army of the Republic, is a historic building in Lynn, Massachusetts, United States.

Lynn station

Railway station

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Lynn station is an intermodal transit station in downtown Lynn, Massachusetts. It is a station on the MBTA Commuter Rail Newburyport/Rockport Line and a hub for the MBTA bus system.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Saugus and Peabody.

Saugus

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Saugus is a town in Greater Boston, Massachusetts, just north of the city. Its population is approximately 29,000, but despite its small size it has a long history lasting almost 400 years.

Peabody

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Peabody is a city of 54,000 in the suburban area of the North Shore in Massachusetts. In the April 2009 edition of Forbes Magazine, Peabody was ranked the 14th most livable city in the United States.

City of Lynn

Type: Locality with 90,300 residents
Also known as: “Lin”, “Saugus”, “Saugus Plantation”, and “Town of Saugus”
Location: Essex, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

42.4745° or 42° 28′ 28″ north

Longitude

-70.9607° or 70° 57′ 39″ west

Population

90,300

Elevation

138 feet (42 metres)

Open location code

87JFF2FQ+QP

GeoNames ID

4942820

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