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Place Name
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Newton
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Place Status (Type)
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city
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Population
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82,585 (1990)
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Location
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Middlesex County, Massachusetts (MA), United States, North America
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Latitude
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42°20'N
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Longitude
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71°13'W
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Newton
, city (1990 pop. 82,585), Middlesex co., E
Mass., suburb of Boston on the Charles R.; 42°20'N 71°13'W.
Industries include publishing, chemicals, precision instruments, and
computers. Newton is known as a regional education center. The city is
the seat of Newton Col., Mount Alvernia Col., Andover Newton
Theological School, Boston Col., Mt. Ida Col., Lovell Col., and Pine
Manor Col. Horace Mann, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mary Baker Eddy, and
Samuel Francis Smith lived in Newton. It comprises 14 individual
residential villages; including Auburndale, Eliot, Newton Centre,
Newton Highlands, Newton Lower Falls, Newton Upper Falls, Newtonville,
Nonantum (or Silver Lake), Riverside, Waban, West Newton, Chestnut
Hill, Oak Hill, Newton Corner. Settled before 1640, inc. as a city
1873.
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