Grafton.
<1> Town (2020 pop. 19,664), Worcester co., S central Mass.;
built on the site of a Native American village; est. by Puritans c.1654,
inc. 1731. Leather products and abrasives are made there. <2>
City (2020 pop. 4,170), seat of Walsh co., NE N.D.; inc. 1881. A
railroad town, its Carnegie Regional Library (1897) was the state's first
public library. A school for the developmentally disabled is located there
and its building is on the National Registry of Historic Places.
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