The New Student's Reference Work/Attleboro, Mass.

At'tleboro, Mass., an early settled and progressive manufacturing town in Bristol County, on the line of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, 32 miles southwest of Boston. Originally composed of a group of villages, Attleboro was incorporated as a town in 1694. Today it has a number of bleacheries, dye-houses, smelters, gold and silver refineries and manufactures besides jewelry and jeweler's supplies, silverware, carriages, leather, buttons, cotton goods, etc. It has a well equipped public library, owns its waterworks and is the seat of the Attleboro Home Sanitarium and of a public alms-house. See Daggett: Sketch of the History of Attleboro (Boston, 1894). Population, 16,215.