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A Gazetteer of the State of Massachusetts, 2 Vols.A Gazetteer of the State of Massachusetts, 2 Volumes. Rev. Ellias Nason, M. A. Revised and enlarged by George G. Varney. Softcover, (1889) reprint 1998, indices, illus., 2 vols., 803 pp.
This is �a topographical description, together with a brief historical and statistical notice, of the several counties, cities, towns, and villages of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.� The first fifty pages give general information about the state of Massachusetts, such as boundaries, bays, capes, islands, geology, mountains, bodies of water, soil, climate, flora, fauna, manufactures, commerce, population, railroads, institutions, government, education, literature, Native Americans and civil history. The second fifty pages give general information about the Counties of Massachusetts, followed by more than 600 pages that comprise the actual gazetteer of the cities, towns and villages of Massachusetts. Includes a new index to make finding people and places easy!
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