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Palmer (Town of Massachusetts)

a town of Massachusetts, which includes several villages, in Hampden co. It is on the Chicopee river, and on the Central Vermont and the Boston and Albany railroads. Its industries include cotton goods, foundry and machineshop products, carpets, wire, etc. It has a public library, and a Y. M. C. A. building. It is the seat of the Massachusetts Hospital for Epileptics. Pop. (1910) 8,610; (1920) 9,896.