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Randolph

Town in Norfolk County, east Massachusetts, 23 km/14 mi south of Boston; population (2000 est) 31,000. A 19th-century shoe-manufacturing centre, Randolph is a residential suburb of Boston, and has some light industry, producing paper boxes, business machines, and rubber footwear. It was incorporated in 1793.

US writer Mary E Freeman was born here in 1852; many of her short stories are set in the community.

Randolph

Town in Orange County, central Vermont; population (1990) 4,800. It is situated on the White River, 39 km/24 mi south of Montpelier. It is at the centre of a farming and dairying region. The Morgan horse, Vermont's state animal, was first bred in Randolph, c. 1800. The town was ravaged by a series of fires in 1992. Vermont Technical College is in Randolph Center.



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And when he entered into his own house in Randolph Crescent(south side), and shut the door behind him, his heart swelled with security.
Tales and Fantasies by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
At his right hand rode Edward Randolph, our arch-enemy, that "blasted wretch," as Cotton Mather calls him, who achieved the downfall of our ancient government, and was followed with a sensible curse, through life and to his grave.
From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
He, with Joseph Dudley, Edmund Randolph, and his other principal adherents, was thrown into prison.
Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
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