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Lynn, Massachusetts
City
Downtown Lynn
Seal
Nicknames:  City of Sin; City Of Firsts
Location in Essex County and the state of Massachusetts.
Lynn, Massachusetts Location in the United States
Coordinates: 42°28′N 70°57′W / 42.467°N 70.950°W / 42.467; -70.950Coordinates: 42°28′N 70°57′W / 42.467°N 70.950°W / 42.467; -70.950
Country	United States
State	Massachusetts
County	Essex
Settled	1629
Incorporated (Town)	1629
Named	1637
Incorporated (City)	May 14, 1850
Named for	King’s Lynn, Norfolk, England
Government
• Type	Mayor-council city
• Body	Executive Branch (Mayor) and Legislative Branch (City Council)
• Mayor	Jared Nicholson (D)
• Council	John M. Walsh Jr (President, Ward 7) (D) Buzzy Barton (Vice President, at-large) (D) Brian M. Field (at-large) (D) Brian P. LaPierre (at-large) (D) Hong L. Net (at-large) (D) Wayne A. Lozzi (Ward 1) (D) Richard B. Starbard (Ward 2) (R) Constantino “Coco” Alinsug (Ward 3) (D) Richard C. Colucci (Ward 4) (D) Dianna Chakoutis (Ward 5) (D) Frederick W. Hogan (Ward 6) (D)
Area
• Total	13.52 sq mi (35.02 km)
• Land	10.74 sq mi (27.81 km2)
• Water	2.78 sq mi (7.20 km)
Elevation	30 ft (9 m)
Population  (2020)
• Total	101,253
• Density	9,428.53/sq mi (3,640.41/km2)
Demonym	Lynner
Time zone	UTC−5 (Eastern)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (Eastern)
ZIP Codes	01901–01905
Area codes	339/781
FIPS code	25-37490
GNIS feature ID	0613376
Website	www.lynnma.gov

Lynn is the eighth-largest municipality in Massachusetts and the largest city in Essex County. Situated on the Atlantic Ocean, 3.7 miles (6.0 km) north of the Boston city line at Suffolk Downs, Lynn is part of Greater Boston’s urban inner core. Settled by Europeans in 1629, Lynn is the 5th oldest colonial settlement in the Commonwealth. An early industrial center, Lynn was long colloquially referred to as the “City of Sin”, owing to its historical reputation for crime and vice. Today, however, the city is known for its contemporary public art, immigrant population, historic architecture, downtown cultural district, loft-style apartments, and public parks and open spaces, which include the oceanfront Lynn Shore Reservation; the 2,200-acre, Frederick Law Olmsted-designed Lynn Woods Reservation; and the High Rock Reservation and Park designed by Olmsted’s sons. Lynn also is home to Lynn Heritage State Park, the southernmost portion of the Essex Coastal Scenic Byway, and the seaside, National Register-listed Diamond Historic District. The population was 101,253 at the time of the 2020 United States Census.

History

Pre-contact

The area that is now known as Lynn was inhabited for thousands of years by Native Americans prior to English colonization in the 1600s. At the time of European contact, the area today known as Lynn was primarily inhabited by the Naumkeag people under the powerful sachem Nanepashemet who controlled territory from the Mystic to the Merrimack Rivers. Colonists would not establish a legal agreement with the Naumkeag over the use of their land in Lynn until 1686 after a smallpox epidemic in 1633, King Philip’s War, and missionary efforts significantly reduced their numbers and confined them to the Praying Town of Natick.

17th century

English colonists settled Lynn not long after the 1607 establishment of Jamestown, Virginia and the 1620 arrival of the Mayflower at Plymouth. European settlement of the area was begun in 1629 by Edmund Ingalls, followed by John Tarbox of Lancashire in 1631. The area today encompassing Lynn was originally incorporated in 1629 as Saugus, the Massachusett name for the area. Three years after the settlement in Salem, five families moved onto Naumkeag lands in the interior of Lynn, then known as Saugus, and the Tomlin family constructed a large mill between today’s Sluice and Flax Ponds. The mill not only supplied grains and sustenance for the settlers and trade with the Naumkeag people, but was used to create brews and many fermented casks of hops and wines to send back to King George in England.^{[citation needed]}

Lynn takes its name from King’s Lynn, Norfolk, England, in honor of Reverend Samuel Whiting (Senior), Lynn’s first official minister who arrived from King’s Lynn in 1637.

A noteworthy early Lynn colonist, Thomas Halsey, left Lynn to settle the East End of Long Island, where he and several others founded the Town of Southampton, New York. The resulting Halsey House—the oldest extant frame house in New York State (1648)—is now open to the public, under the aegis of the Southampton Colonial Society.

As English settlement pushed deeper into Naumkeag territories, disease, missionary efforts, and loss of access to seasonal hunting, farming, and fishing grounds caused significant disruption to Naumkeag lifeways. In 1675, Naumkeag sachem Wenepoykin joined Metacomet in resisting English colonization in King Philip’s War, for which he was enslaved and sent to Barbados. In 1686, under pressure to demonstrate legal title for lands they occupied during the administrative restructuring of the Dominion of New England, the selectmen of Lynn and Reading purchased a deed from Wenopoykin’s heirs Kunkshamooshaw and Quonopohit for 16 pounds of sterling silver, though by this time they and most surviving Naumkeag were residents of the Natick Praying Town.

Further European settlement of Lynn led to several independent towns being formed, with Reading created in 1644; Lynnfield in 1782; Saugus in 1815; Swampscott in 1852; and Nahant in 1853. The City of Lynn was incorporated on May 14, 1850.

Colonial Lynn was an early center of tannery and shoe-making, which began in 1635. The boots worn by Continental Army soldiers during the Revolutionary War were made in Lynn, and the shoe-making industry drove the city’s growth into the early nineteenth century. This legacy is reflected in the city’s seal, which features a colonial boot.