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Worcester, MA was first settled in 1673 and was officially incorporated in 1684. The settlement was established as a town in 1722, and chartered as a city in 1848. |
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The USS Constitution 'Old Ironsides', the oldest fully commissioned vessel in the US Navy is permanently berthed at Charlestown Navy Yard in Massachusetts. Since 1897 the ship has been overhauled several times in Dry Dock 1. |
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Lawrence was founded in 1845 as a woolen-manufacturing center on the Merrimack river. |
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