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Shirley

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Shirley

Town in northeastern Massachusetts, in Middlesex County, 11 km/7 mi southeast of Fitchburg, on the Nashua River; population (2000 est) 1,400. Hilly and rural, it has had various light industries and is a residential suburb. The town is near the Fort Devens army base. It was incorporated in 1786.

Colonists arrived at the town's site in 1720. Water-powered mills were built from 1739 onwards and were followed by iron works and textile factories. English religious leader Ann Lee visited the town in 1783 and a Shaker community was formally organized in Shirley in 1793. The Shaker village, one of 4 entries for Shirley on the national register of historic places, closed in 1908 when it was taken over by Massachusetts State. The buildings were initially used as an industrial school for boys and were later developed into correctional facilities.

Shirley

Community in Brookhaven town, southeastern New York, on Long Island's southern shore, 6 km/4 mi west of Center Moriches; population (1990) 22,900. It is primarily residential.

Brookhaven Airport is just to the north and Mastic is to the northeast.

Shirley

Historic site in southeast Virginia, at the junction of the James and Appomattox rivers, across from Bermuda Hundred. Its manor house, built in 1723, was occupied by Union general George McClellan during the Civil War siege of Petersburg, 14 km/9 mi to the southwest.
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In this dilemma Governor Shirley fixed upon a wealthy merchant, named William Pepperell, who was pretty well known and liked among the people.
Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
It did not appear to me that--in short, you know, Dr Shirley must have a curate, and you had secured his promise.
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But her eyes were as black and brilliant, her cheeks as rosy, and her dimples as enchanting, as in the long-ago days when she and Anne Shirley had vowed eternal friendship in the garden at Orchard Slope.
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