Editing Lynn, Massachusetts (section)

===19th century===

[[File:Lynn Historical Aerial.jpg|thumb|right|Aerial Illustration of Lynn, {{circa|1881}}]]
In 1816, a mail stage coach was operating through Lynn. By 1836, 23 stage coaches left the Lynn Hotel for Boston each day. The [[Eastern Railroad (Massachusetts)|Eastern Railroad]] Line between Salem and East Boston opened on August 28, 1838. This was later merged with the [[Boston and Maine]] Railroad and called the Eastern Division. In 1847 telegraph wires passed through Lynn, but no telegraph service station was built until 1858.<ref>[http://www.usigs.org/library/books/ma/Lynn1890/lynn02Ch2-1814.txt USigs.org] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040323204254/http://www.usigs.org/library/books/ma/Lynn1890/lynn02Ch2-1814.txt |date=March 23, 2004 }}, History of Lynn Ch2-1814–1864 pub1890.</ref>

[[File:Lynn Diamond Historic District Nahant St.jpg|thumb|Nahant Street in Diamond Historic District]]
During the middle of the nineteenth century, estates and beach cottages were constructed along Lynn's shoreline, and the city's Atlantic coastline became a fashionable summer resort.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cityoflynn.net/aboutlynn_history.shtml|title=Brief History of Lynn|website=www.cityoflynn.net|access-date=2016-10-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161020035529/http://www.cityoflynn.net/aboutlynn_history.shtml|archive-date=October 20, 2016|url-status=usurped}}</ref> Many of the structures built during this period are today situated within the National Register-listed [[Diamond Historic District (Lynn, Massachusetts)|Diamond Historic District]].

Further inland, industrial activity contemporaneously expanded in Lynn. Shoe manufacturers, led by [[Charles A. Coffin]] and Silas Abbott Barton, invested in the early electric industry, specifically in 1883 with [[Elihu Thomson]], [[Edwin J. Houston]], and their [[Thomson-Houston Electric Company]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Gifford |first=Jonathan |date=2013-09-15 |title=100 Great Business Leaders: Of the world's most admired companies |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BSyJAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA35 |publisher=Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd |pages=34–35 |isbn=9789814484688}}</ref> That company merged with [[Edison Electric Company]] of [[Schenectady, New York]], forming [[General Electric]] in 1892, with the two original GE plants being in Lynn and Schenectady. Coffin served as the first president of [[General Electric]].<ref>[http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/mole/t/thomson.htm Amphilsoc.org] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080305145029/http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/mole/t/thomson.htm |date=March 5, 2008 }}, Elihu Thomson Papers at the American Philosophical Society</ref>

Initially the [[General Electric]] plant specialized in arc lights, electric motors, and meters. Later it specialized in aircraft electrical systems and components, and aircraft engines were built in Lynn during WWII. That engine plant evolved into the current jet engine plant during WWII because of research contacts at MIT in Cambridge.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.massmoments.org/moment-details/g-e-engineers-test-jet-engine.html|title=G.E. Engineers Test Jet Engine|date=April 18, 2008 |access-date=December 11, 2021|archive-date=December 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211211032319/https://www.massmoments.org/moment-details/g-e-engineers-test-jet-engine.html|url-status=live}}</ref> 
[[Gerhard Neumann]] was a key player in jet engine group at GE in Lynn. The continuous interaction of material science research at MIT and the resulting improvements in jet engine efficiency and power have kept the jet engine plant in Lynn ever since.{{citation needed|date=December 2021}}

[[File:Soldiers'_Monument,_Library_and_common,_Lynn,_Mass.jpg|thumb|Postcard depicting a soldier monument in Lynn, MA]]

One of the largest strikes of the early labor movement began in the shoe factories of Lynn on February 22, 1860, when Lynn shoemakers marched through the streets to their workplaces and handed in their tools, protesting reduced wages.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.massaflcio.org/1860-showmakers-strike-lynn |title=1860 Showmakers Strike in Lynn &#124; Massachusetts AFL-CIO |access-date=2016-07-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160816175917/http://www.massaflcio.org/1860-showmakers-strike-lynn |archive-date=August 16, 2016}}</ref> Known as the [[1860 New England Shoemakers Strike]], it was one of the earliest strikes of its kind in the United States.{{citation needed|date=December 2021}}

In 1841, abolitionist [[Frederick Douglass]], moved to Lynn as a fugitive slave. Douglass wrote his first autobiography, ''[[Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave]],'' while living in Lynn. The publication would become Douglass's best-known work. Douglass, his wife, and their five children lived in Lynn until 1848.<ref name="itemlive.org-2018">{{cite web |url=http://www.itemlive.com/2018/02/02/re-examining-fredrick-douglasss-time-lynn/ |title=Re-Examining Frederick Douglass's Time in Lynn |website=itemlive.org |date=February 2, 2018 |access-date=2018-02-03 |archive-date=February 4, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180204070417/https://www.itemlive.com/2018/02/02/re-examining-fredrick-douglasss-time-lynn/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1870, [[Esther Hill Hawks]], a renowned a female physician, and activist during the [[American Civil War]], moved to Lynn becoming one of the three first female physicians in Lynn, providing her gynecology services to many women. Later on in 1874, opening her own practice.

On February 1, 1866, [[Mary Baker Eddy]] experienced the "[[Christian Science#Fall in Lynn|fall in Lynn]]", in which Eddy was badly injured but reportedly healed herself through prayer alone. This was a significant milestone in the development of the [[Christian Science]] religion.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.marybakereddylibrary.org/mary-baker-eddy/the-life-of-mary-baker-eddy/|title=The Life of Mary Baker Eddy|date=December 3, 1910|website=Marybakereddylibrary.org|access-date=2016-06-05|archive-date=April 17, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160417202736/http://www.marybakereddylibrary.org/mary-baker-eddy/the-life-of-mary-baker-eddy/|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1889 a massive fire swept through the downtown of Lynn, and would not be matched in size until nearly 100 years later.<ref>{{cite web |title=Great Lynn Fire of 1889 |url=http://www.celebrateboston.com/disasters/great-lynn-fire-1889.htm |website=www.celebrateboston.com |access-date=April 26, 2022 |archive-date=May 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220521152505/http://www.celebrateboston.com/disasters/great-lynn-fire-1889.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> At the time the loss was the third largest from fire in New England history. A total of 296 building were destroyed, including 142 homes, 25 stores, the Central Square railroad depot, four banks and four newspaper buildings. It was estimated that 200 families were made homeless and 10,000 jobs were lost. Estimates put the total loss as high as {{US$|6000000|1889|round=-4|about=yes|long=no|link=no}}.<ref>{{cite news |date=1889-11-27 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102523618/27-nov-1889-lynn-fire-thanksgiving-wk/ |title=Lynn's Conflagration |work=Fall River Daily Evening News |access-date=2023-01-18 |archive-date=June 30, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220630011950/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102523618/27-nov-1889-lynn-fire-thanksgiving-wk/ |url-status=live }}</ref>