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Lynn is an incorporated city in Essex County, Massachusetts, the largest city in the county and the eighth-largest municipality in the state.

It was settled by Europeans in 1629, when Edmund Ingalls was the first settler, was originally incorporated in 1629 as Saugus, was named in 1637 for King's Lynn in Norfolk, England, in honor of first minister Samuel Whiting, and was incorporated as a city on May 14, 1850.

The 2020 census counted 101,253 people in Lynn.

An American Community Survey 2020-2024 estimate puts Lynn at 36,414 households.

Lynn covers 13.52 square miles in total, with 10.74 square miles of land, and sits on the Atlantic Ocean about 3.7 miles north of the Boston city line, as part of Greater Boston's inner core.

Colonial tanning and shoemaking in Lynn began in 1635, boots for Continental Army soldiers were made in Lynn, and the city seal features a colonial boot.

By the early 1900s Lynn was the world leader in shoe production, with 234 factories producing over a million pairs of shoes a day, aided by Jan Ernst Matzeliger's mechanization of shoemaking.

The 1860 New England Shoemakers Strike began in Lynn on February 22, 1860, one of the earliest major strikes in United States history.

The Thomson-Houston Electric Company was founded in Lynn in 1883 by Elihu Thomson, Edwin J. Houston, and Charles A. Coffin, and merged with Edison Electric in 1892 to form General Electric, whose Lynn plant later built aircraft engines and evolved into the current jet engine plant.

Frederick Douglass lived in Lynn from 1841 to 1848 and wrote his Narrative there, and Mary Baker Eddy's "fall in Lynn" on February 1, 1866 was a milestone in the founding of Christian Science.