Tag: Methuen
Methuen ( /mɛˈθjuːɛn/) is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 47,255 at the 2010 census.
Methuen was first settled in 1642 and was officially incorporated in 1726; it is named for the British diplomat Sir Paul Methuen. Methuen was originally part of Haverhill, Massachusetts. In 1724 Stephen Barker and others in the western part of that town petitioned the General Court to grant them permission to form a new town above Hawke’s Meadow Brook. Although opposed by their fellow townsmen, the petition was approved the following year (December 8, 1725), and the General Court gave them an act of incorporation under the name of Methuen. The first town meeting was held March 9, 1726.
Industrial growth in the 1800s influenced Methuen’s development. Construction of the Methuen Cotton Mills at the Spicket River falls in the 1820s and the increased manufacture of hats and shoes in small factories along the Spicket spurred the centralization of Methuen’s economic,…
