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Wayland

Town in Middlesex County, east Massachusetts; population (2000 est) 13,100. It is located 24 km/15 mi west of Boston, on the Sudbury River. Much of Wayland's west is part of the Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, along the Sudbury River. Lake Cochituate is to the southwest.

The area was originally settled by Europeans in 1673 as part of Sudbury Plantation. It was originally incorporated as East Sudbury in 1780 and was renamed Wayland in honour of US lawyer and educator Francis Wayland in 1835. Shoemaking became a major industry in Wayland after 1880. However, it had declined by 1910 and, since the arrival of the railway to Boston in 1881, the area is now largely a commuter town.



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A very agricola laboriosus was I to travellers bound westward through Lincoln and Wayland to nobody knows where; they sitting at their ease in gigs, with elbows on knees, and reins loosely hanging in festoons; I the home-staying, laborious native of the soil.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
This is Wayland Smith's cave, a place of classic fame now; but as Sir Walter has touched it, I may as well let it alone, and refer you to "Kenilworth" for the legend.
Tom Brown's Schooldays by Hughes, Thomas View in context
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