3188 - Abington, Massachusetts, USA

A great card from Abington. I was never into He-Man or She-Ra, but what a neat card. And a Christmas one at that.

Abington is a town of just over 17 000 people. In 2012, Abington celebrated its tricentennial. The local indigenous people called the area Manamooskeagin "great green place of shaking grass" before Europeans arrived. The two streams in the area were called Schumacastacut "upper beaver brook' and Schumasastuscacant "lower beaver brook." The name of the town was in honour of Anne Venables-Bertie, Countess of Abingdon, wife of the second Earl of Abingdon, who helped Joseph Dudley secure the governorship of the colony.

Jesse Reed invented a machine that mass-produced tacks for the shoe industry. As such, Abington's primary industry for much of the 1800s was the manufacture of boots and shoes. Half of the footwear provided for the Union Army during the Civil War came from Abington.

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3584 - Blaine, Minnesota, United States of America

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