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North Andover

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North Andover

Town in Essex County, northeastern Massachusetts, on the Merrimack and Shawsheen rivers, 42 km/26 mi north of Boston, and east of Lawrence; population (1990 est) 22,800. It produces textiles, machinery, finished wood, plastics, and telecommunications equipment. It was settled in 1640, incorporated as Andover in 1646, separated from South Andover in 1709, and incorporated as North Andover in 1855.

Merrimack College (1947) and the Merrimack Valley Textile Museum are located here, as well as the 1660s home of the Colonial poet Anne Bradstreet.



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