ATTLEBOROUGH  , a township of

Bristol county, in south-east Massachusetts, U.S.A . Pop . (189o) 7577; (1900) 11,335, of whom 3237 were foreign-born; (1910 census) 16,215 It is traversed by the New York, New Haven & Hartford railway, and by inter-urban electric lines . It has an area of 28 sq. m . The population is largely concentrated in and about the village which bears the name of the township . In Attleborough are the Attleborough Home Sanitarium, and a public library (1885) . The principal manufactures of the township are jewelry, silver-ware, cotton goods, cotton machinery, coffin trimmings, and leather . In 1905 the total value of the township's factory products was $10,050,384, of which $5,544,285 was the value of jewelry, Attleborough ranking fourth among the cities of the country in. this industry, and producing 10.4% of the total jewelry product of the United States . Attleborough was incorporated in 1694, though settled soon after 1661 (records since 1672) as part of Rehoboth . In 1887 the township was divided in population, wealth and area by the creation of the township of NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH—pop . (1890) 6727; (1900) 7253, of whom 1786 were foreign-born; (1905, state census) 7878 . This township produced manufactured goods in 1900 to the value of $3,990,731, jewelry valued at $2,785,567; it maintains the Richards memorial library .

See J . Daggett, A

Sketch of the History of Attleborough to 1887 (Boston, 1894) .