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Lynn City Line on New Ocean Street

Quick Facts: Nearly 350 years ago, some settlers from nearby Salem wanted to find less crowded, greener pastures. They bargained with the Indians for some land known as Saugust, the place where the local Indian chiefs, the Sagamores, lived. In 1630, that land was incorporated as the Town of Saugust, one year after it was founded.

When the first official minister, Samuel Whiting, arrived from King's Lynn, England, the new settlers were so overjoyed that they changed the name of their community to Lynn in 1637 in honor of him.

Although mostly an agricultural community, Lynn people were skilled in making leather shoes which were used to purchase the other necessities of life. A Quaker named Ebineezer Breed persuaded other Europeans to settle in Lynn to make the town an important shoe center of the new world. Breed was also successful in convincing Congress to place a protective tarriff on the shoes made in Lynn which helped to make the town the ladies' shoe center of the world. Lynn became a city in 1850, as her population exploded.