Lynn has so many interesting features and lots of culture. It is a real melting pot of people. We can walk down the street and see a Russian grocery store and then not far from that a Vietnamese restaurant or a Spanish market. It's really cool. We have been spending some time walking around its different parts and exploring. This first image is the High Rock Tower, which is an observation tower. If you click on the link above, you can get some info on it.
Here is some history on Lynn, MA that I found on the Mass.info website (By the way, ironically enough, I found out that some of my relatives on my mom's side back in the 1800's first landed in Lynn! Guess I'm going back to my roots!).
"History: Settled in 1629, Lynn flourished as a plantation and site to early leather and iron industries. Shoemaking began in 1635 as a traditional hand craft, often done at home during the winter. In 1750, Welsh immigrant John Adam Dagyr introduced local shoemakers to improved techniques of making high quality women’s shoes. By the early 1800s, shoemaking had become a prosperous industry, supplying the nation through nearby maritime ports. Machinery introduced in the 1850’s ushered in the modern shoe factory, creating work opportunities that attracted labor from all over New England and later from Europe.
"In 1882, Elihu Thomson brought a thriving electrical business to Lynn. These included manufacturing industrial motors and arc lighting. His ground-breaking experiments with electricity led to the formation of General Electric with Thomas Edison in 1892. Shoemaking declined in the 1920s and 30s while General Electric expanded. During World War II the nation’s first jet engine was built under great secrecy at the Lynn plant. These fascinating stories and more are included in the Visitors Center exhibits."
Below are some pictures of downtown Lynn and then Lynn Shore Drive (the ocean pics):
Here's a plane taking off from Boston Logan Airport. If you look really close you can see the Boston skyline.
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