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Swansea (Massachusetts, USA)

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Swansea

Town in southeastern Massachusetts, in Bristol County, 5 km/3 mi northwest of Fall River, on Mount Hope Bay and the Rhode Island border; population (1990 est) 15,400. Formerly a shipbuilding and textile-producing town, it is now an agricultural, residential and resort area.

Swansea was settled in 1667. It was the site of the first bloodshed of King Philip's War involving Philip, the chief of the Wampanoag people.

Every building in the town was destroyed in King Philip's War. Named for Swansea in Wales, home town of an early minister.



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