The city of Lynn is located in eastern Massachusetts, 11 miles north of Boston, on the Atlantic Ocean. Our neighbors are:
The Daily Evening Item and the Lynn Sunday Post are our newspapers and WLYN is our radio station. North Shore Access provides local access to the Internet . Other major employers and well-known businesses operating in Lynn include:
Copyright, 1996 © all rights reserved. Source: Lynn Guide, published by the City of Lynn, Department of Community Development. [Nearly 350 years ago] some settlers from nearby Salem wanted to find less crowded, greener pastures. They bargained with the Indians for some land known as Saugust, the place where the local Indian chiefs, the Sagamores, lived. In 1630, that land was incorporated as the Town of Saugust, one year after it was founded. When the first official minister, Samuel Whiting, arrived from King's Lynn, England, the new settlers were so overjoyed that they changed the name of their community to Lynn in 1637 in honor of him. Although mostly an agricultural community, Lynn people were skilled in making leather shoes which were used to purchase the other necessities of life. A Quaker named Ebineezer Breed persuaded other Europeans to settle in Lynn to make the town an important shoe center of the new world. Breed was also successful in convincing Congress to place a protective tarriff on the shoes made in Lynn which helped to make the town the ladies' shoe center of the world. Lynn became a city in 1850, as her population exploded. Today, Lynn continues to thrive and to flourish as a community of hard-working people who have a great sense of pride in their heritage and rich historical background. Lynn's city government consists of a mayor and an eleven-member City Council, one member from each of the seven wards and four at-large members.
Source: Alison Amero, "Lynn: Statistically Speaking", Lynn Sunday Post Community Profile 1994, August 28, 1994. Lynn recognizes the need for a vibrant downtown area to compliment its natural resources and to promote entrenpreneurial spirit. The Downtown Comprehensive Plan prepared with input from city officials, both elected and appointed and the Lynn Business Partnership, plans among other things to improve access and traffic flow, redefine and consolidate the downtown area, create a Housewares District, and implement a Cultural and Arts District. In recognizing the need to assist growth and development within the business community, Ecomomic Development Industrial Corporation of Lynn (EDIC/Lynn) has developed a variety of low interest loan programs to provide capital for business start-up and expansion. A wide range of programs are available through the City Development Agencies to both the small and large business operator who seeks to relocate, expand, or renovate. The Downtown Micro-Loan Fund, EDIC/LMFC Loan Fund, EDIC EDA Revolving Loan Fund, EDIC Growth Resource Center, Downtown Signage Grant Program, 5% Direct Loan Program and Macro-Loan and Job Creation Program are a sampling of the business opportunities the city has to offer. Lynn was settled in 1629 and originally included what are now the separate towns of Swampscott, Nahant, Saugus, and Lynnfield. Local Shoemaking grew from what was a cottage industry to achieve international importance by the late 19th century. In 1892, the Lynn-based Thomson-Houston Electric Company merged with the Edison General Electric Company to form the Generalo Electric Company. Throughout the 19th century, Lynn was a center for religious and social change: Spiritualism, Christian Science, Temperance, Women's Rights, Abolitionism, and the Union Movement. Lynn has a tradition for being first in ingenuity, industry, and imagination. Among the many "Firsts" in Lynn history are: 
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The library was established in 1814 and moved to its current location on North Common Street in 1900. It has a collection of more than 250,000 books and periodicals,including vast collections on the Civil War and the shoe industry. There are approximately 60,000 cardholders. The library has an eleven-member Board of Library Trustees, appointed by the mayor.
The library staff have Internet e-mail addresses. The head of circulation can be reached at hedetnie@noble.mass.edu.
The Lynn Business Partnership is a private advocacy group comprised of 55 senior executives from some of Lynn's largest businesses. The organization fosters economic development within the city by ensuring that the business perspective is considered in the political decision-making process.
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