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See also:

• PARK (Fr. part; Ital. parco; Sp. Marque; O.Eng. pearroc; connected with Ger. pferch, fold, and pfarrei, district, translating med. Lat. parochia, parish)
• PARK, EDWARDS AMASA (1808–1900)
• PARK, MUNGO (1771-1806?)

PARK  , a small township of Norfolk county, Massachusetts, U.S.A., about 8 m . S.W. of the business centre of Boston . Pop . (189o) 10,193; (1900) 13,244, of whom 38o5 were foreign-born; (19ro census) 15,507 . Its area is about 41 sq. m . It is traversed by the New York, New Haven & Hartford railway, which has large repair shops here, and by the Neponset river and smaller streams . The township contains the villages of Hyde Park, Readville (in which there is the famous " \Veil " trotting-track), Fairmount, Hazelwood and Clarendon Hills . Until about 1856 Hyde Park was a farmstead . The value of the total factory product increased from $4,383,959 in 1900 to $6,739,307 in 1905, or 53.7% . In 1868 Hyde Park was incorporated as a township, being formed of territory taken from Dorchester, Dedham and Milton .