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    Swampscott (/ˈswɒmpskət/) is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, located 15 miles (24 km) up the coast from Boston in an area known as...
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    century by fishing villages along the North Shore coast of Massachusetts centered on Swampscott. It is designed to be launched off the beach. The rounded...
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    Todd McShay (category People from Swampscott, Massachusetts)
    North Shore Christian School in Lynn, Massachusetts and then Swampscott High School in Swampscott, Massachusetts, where he played quarterback for the Big...
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    (includes Rowley CDP), Salem, Salisbury (includes Salisbury CDP), Saugus, Swampscott, Topsfield (includes Topsfield CDP), Wenham, West Newbury Middlesex County...
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    David Portnoy (category People from Swampscott, Massachusetts)
    grew up in Swampscott, Massachusetts, the son of Michael, a lawyer, and Linda, a high school teacher. He is Jewish. After attending Swampscott High School...
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    David Lee Roth (category People from Swampscott, Massachusetts)
    flakey Hollywood horse manure." The Roths also briefly lived in Swampscott, Massachusetts. In his teens, the family relocated to Pasadena, California. David...
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    marketed for use in children. It was invented by Dr. Gary Cohen of Swampscott, Massachusetts. Pedialyte is claimed to promote rehydration and electrolyte replacement...
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    Swampscott station is a historic railroad station in Swampscott, Massachusetts. Located in the southwest portion of Swampscott near the Lynn border, it...
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    Walter Brennan (category People from Swampscott, Massachusetts)
    (1957-1963). Brennan was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, on July 25 1894, less than two miles from his family's home in Swampscott. His parents were both Irish immigrants...
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  • Harold Alfond (category People from Swampscott, Massachusetts)
    established the first factory outlet store. Alfond was born in Swampscott, Massachusetts, on March 6, 1914, the son of Jewish immigrants Simon and Rose...
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  • Jamie Denbo (category People from Swampscott, Massachusetts)
    Ghostbusters (2016). Denbo was born and raised in suburban Boston, in Swampscott, Massachusetts. She is an only child. Her mother is from Montreal, and her father...
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    Barry Goudreau (category People from Swampscott, Massachusetts)
    Beach Casino Ballroom. Goudreau now lives with his wife Connie in Swampscott, Massachusetts. They have two children: Sean, a mortgage executive, and Michele...
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    Mary Baker Eddy (category People from Swampscott, Massachusetts)
    Road, Swampscott, Massachusetts 1868,1870 – 277 Main Street, Amesbury, Massachusetts 1868–1870 – 133 Central Street, Stoughton, Massachusetts 1875–1882...
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    Olmsted Subdivision Historic District (category Historic districts in Essex County, Massachusetts)
    St/Paradise Road, Swampscott Avenue, Redington Street and Burrill Street in Swampscott, Massachusetts. According to the May 2005 Massachusetts Heritage Landscape...
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    Dick Jauron (category People from Swampscott, Massachusetts)
    Pius V elementary school in Lynn, MA. He attended Swampscott High School in Swampscott, Massachusetts, and was a letterman in football, basketball, and...
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    Mark Shasha (category People from Swampscott, Massachusetts)
    - Mark Shasha’s Great Contribution”, June 2, 2005 p. 1 The Reporter, “Swampscott Artist Creates Signature Piece for Hospice”, May 26, 2005 A&M p. 3 North...
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    Swampscott Town Hall, previously the Elihu Thomson House, is a historic building in Swampscott, Massachusetts. The house was designed by architect James...
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    Elihu Thomson (category People from Swampscott, Massachusetts)
    Swampscott, Massachusetts. The Elihu Thomson House in Swampscott was designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1976 and serves as Swampscott's town...
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    Piper Kerman (category LGBTQ people from Massachusetts)
    attorneys, doctors and educators. She graduated from Swampscott High School in Swampscott, Massachusetts, in 1987, and Smith College in 1992. Kerman is a...
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  • The Swampscott train wreck occurred on February 28, 1956, in Swampscott, Massachusetts when a Danvers–Boston commuter train crashed into the rear of a...
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    Lesley Stahl (category People from Lynn, Massachusetts)
    a Jewish family in the Boston suburb of Lynn, Massachusetts, and was raised in Swampscott, Massachusetts. She is the daughter of Dorothy J. (née Tishler)...
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    John Humphreys House (category Buildings and structures in Swampscott, Massachusetts)
    located in Swampscott, Massachusetts. Although it was long thought to be associated with John Humphrey, an early deputy governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony...
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    Marshmallow Creme, so Query sold his recipe in 1920 to two men from Swampscott, Massachusetts, H. Allen Durkee and Fred L. Mower, who began distributing the...
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    General Glover House (category Buildings and structures in Swampscott, Massachusetts)
    Revolutionary War hero General John Glover, located on the Marblehead - Swampscott - Salem border. The house sits on the historic 2.4 acre property, formerly...
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    James T. Kelley (architect) (category Burials at Walnut Hills Cemetery (Brookline, Massachusetts))
    1908. Peter Faneuil School, Boston, Massachusetts, 1909-10. Swampscott Public Library, Swampscott, Massachusetts, 1917. A contributing property to the...
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    door-to-door. He soon afterward sold the recipe to two candy makers in Swampscott, Massachusetts, H. Allen Durkee and Fred Mower, for $500. The product first hit...
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    Swampscott Cemetery is a historic cemetery at 400 Essex Street in Swampscott, Massachusetts. It is the town's only cemetery, and was established in 1852...
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    Robinson Newhall. History of Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts: Including Lynnfield, Saugus, Swampscott and Nahant. Published 1865 by John L. Shorey 13...
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    Anthony Athanas (category People from Swampscott, Massachusetts)
    Hawthorne Café in Swampscott, Massachusetts, which by the early 1950s had become the highest-grossing restaurant in Massachusetts, with profits of more...
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    Barry Pederson (category People from Swampscott, Massachusetts)
    and his wife Patricia have two children. The family resides in Swampscott, Massachusetts. Pederson now serves as studio analyst for Bruins coverage for...
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