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| Massachusetts Facts |
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The first nuclear-powered surface vessel, USS Long Beach CG (N) 9, was launched at Quincy, Massachusetts in 1961. |
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The Mather school was founded in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1639. It is the first public elementary school in America. |
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The city is named in honor of Francis Cabot Lowell (1775 – 1817), a manufacturing pioneer who designed and funded the construction of the first power loom in the nation. |
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