The Civil War brought great prosperity to the city and further growth of the shoe factories. Even the fires of and , which destroyed much of the central business district from Central Square to Broad Street, didn't stop expansion.
The gutted buildings were simply replaced by five and six story shoe factories. While Lynn developed its major industrial capacity, handsome summer estates were being built along its shore by the middle of the 19th century. These established the city as a fashionable Boston resort area. The median household income for Lynn is well below the statewide average. Lynn suffered several large fires in the late s and early s, including a devastating inferno among former shoe factories at Broad and Washington Streets on November 28, The blaze destroyed 17 downtown buildings undergoing redevelopment, with property losses totaling in the tens of millions of dollars.
The site has since been largely redeveloped into a satellite campus of North Shore Community College. Due to a reputation for high crime that has persisted since the beginning of industrialization, a taunting rhyme about Lynn [8] [9] has been known throughout Eastern Massachusetts "Lynn, Lynn, the city of sin, you'll never come out the way you went in, what looks like gold is really tin, the girls say 'no' but they'll give in, Lynn, Lynn, the city of sin".
Another popular saying, was "Lynn, Lynn the city of sin: if you ain't bad, you can't get in!. In order to end the popular chant, city solicitor Michael Barry proposed renaming the city to Ocean Park in , but this failed to pass. In order to counter the reputation as "the city of sin", Lynn created an advertising campaign in the early s to improve the city's image. The "City Of Firsts" campaign boasted that Lynn had the:. Later, some of these claims were found to be inaccurate or unprovable.
For example, the first baseball game under artificial light appears to have actually occurred in Indiana. The first wave of immigration began in the early s when many Jewish people emigrated from Russia to Lynn; Lynn thus became home to one of the largest Russian communities in the North Shore.
Today, with one quarter of its residents of Hispanic origin, it joins nearby East Boston and Chelsea as an important center of the Latino community of the Boston area.
In the early s, a number of new development projects have contributed to what officials hope will be the city's renaissance. Industrial buildings that were formerly vacant have been converted into loft spaces by real estate developers, and bought by young home-buyers who seek the urban lifestyle of Boston proper, but can't afford the higher prices of Boston's South End and similar neighborhoods.
Encouraged by local developer Tom Kennedy, New Urbanist architect Robert Orr proposed a series of charettes for the redevelopment of Lynn's waterfront in conjunction with Lynnfield Engineering.
City Hall is encouraging the community's resurgence, with new antique-style lighting, signage, brickwork, and a multipurpose municipal football stadium. In late , Judith Flanagan Kennedy became mayor by a margin of only 27 votes out of a vote total of over 16, , [11] beating out two-term incumbent mayor Edward J. Lynn is located beside Massachusetts Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. Lynn's shoreline is divided in half by the town of Nahant , which divides Lynn Harbor to the south from Nahant Bay to the north.
The city lies north of the Saugus River , and is also home to several brooks, as well as several ponds, the largest being Breed's Pond and Walden Pond which has no relation to a similarly named pond in Concord. More than a quarter of the town's land is covered by the Lynn Woods Reservation , which takes up much of the land in the northwestern part of the city. Lynn is located in the southern part of Essex County, and is five miles 8 km southwest of Salem , ten miles 16 km northeast of Boston , and twenty-two miles west-southwest of Cape Ann.
The city is bordered by Nahant to the south, Swampscott to the east, Salem to the northeast, Peabody to the north, Lynnfield to the northwest, Saugus to the west, and Revere in Suffolk County to the southeast. Besides its downtown district, Lynn is also divided into East Lynn and West Lynn, which are further divided into even smaller areas.
Lynn has no full highways, the nearest being U. Route 1 in Saugus and the combined Interstate 95 and Route in Lynnfield. Route passes from southwest to northeast along a relatively straight right-of-way through the city.
It shares a half mile concurrency with Route A, which follows Route 's old route through the city between its parent route and Route 1A. Route passes from the north of the city before turning south and passing through the downtown area and becoming concurrent with Route 1A for a mile.
Route 1A passes from Revere along the western portion of the Lynnway, a divided highway within the city, before passing further inland into Swampscott. The Lynnway itself runs along the coastline, leading to a rotary which links the road to Nahant Road and Lynn Shore Drive, which follows the coast into Swampscott.
An extension of the Blue Line to downtown Lynn has been proposed, but not funded. The nearest airport is Boston's Logan International Airport. Lynn gets very cold, snowy winters and mild-to-warm summers. As of the census [26] of , there were 89, people, 33, households, and 21, families residing in the city. The population density was 8, There were 34, housing units at an average density of 3, The racial makeup of the city was Hispanic or Latino of any race were There were 33, households out of which The average household size was 2.
The Lydia Pinkham Vegetable Compound. The first Jet Airplane Engine in the U. Today, Lynn with a population of 89, continues to thrive and flourish as a community of hard-working people.
Lynn is rich with history, so visit one of our libraries, museums or historical society to find out more about the history of our great city. City of Lynn. In the first Tannery in the US began operations in Lynn. The first Electric Trolley in the state ran from Lynn in More On Lynn. Lynn was settled by colonists from the New England Company in Salem in Early settlers relied primarily on family farming and shell fishing although an iron works was established in the city in Leather tanning became a major industry very early on and by there were a string of tanneries along Black Marsh Brook, called Tanney Brook, to the harbor.
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