Place:Georgetown, Essex, Massachusetts, United States

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NameGeorgetown
Alt namesNew Rowleysource: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS25007189
TypeTown
Coordinates42.717°N 70.983°W
Located inEssex, Massachusetts, United States
Contained Places
Cemetery
Byfield Cemetery
Union Cemetery
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Georgetown is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 8,470 at the 2020 census. It was incorporated in 1838 from part of Rowley.

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Georgetown was originally settled in 1639 as a part of the town of Rowley by the Reverend Ezekiel Rogers. The town at the time stretched from the Atlantic coast to the Merrimack River, south of Newbury and north of Ipswich. Several farmers, finding suitable meadowlands in the western half of the settlement, began settling along the Penn Brook by the middle of the seventeenth century, creating Rowley's West Parish. Though not directly involved in King Philip's War, the village nonetheless did become a victim of Indian raids. The village, which became known as New Rowley, grew for many years, with small mills and eventually a shoe company opening up in the town. By 1838, the town was sufficiently large enough for its own incorporation, and was renamed Georgetown. Small industry continued, and today the town is mostly residential in nature, a distant suburb of Boston's North Shore.

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