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ROCKLAND
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ROCKLAND, a township of Plymouth county, Massachusetts, U.S.A., about 20 M. S. of Boston. Pop. (1890) 5213; (1900) 5327; (1910 U.S. census) 6928. Area, about to sq. m. It is served by the New York, New Haven & Hartford railway, and by interurban electric railway. Among its manufactures are boots and shoes and tacks. There is a public library (1878). Rockland was erected into a township in 1894, having been previously a part of Abington.