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Taunton (City and county-seat)

a city and county-seat of Bristol co., Mass.; on the Taunton river, and on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad; 36 miles S. of Boston.

It contains a public library, court house, United States government building, State Hospital for the Insane, waterworks, electric lights, electric street railroads, National and savings banks, and several daily, weekly, and monthly periodicals. Taunton is a noted manufacturcotton ing city, having numerous cotton mills, machine and printing-press works, foundries, nail and tack mills, brick and tile works, stove and furnace works, an extensive britannia-ware plant, a jewelry factory, copper works, shoe-button factories, and locomotive works. It was in- TAUNTON corporated as a town in 1639, and chartered as a city in 1864. Pop. (1910) 34,259; (1920) 37,137.