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| | Taunton Massachusetts, 1890 |
 | | Taunton has three national banks with capital stock aggregating $1,300,000; and two savings banks carrying deposits at the close of last year amounting to $4,679,034. |
 | | The largest park is known as "Taunton Green," occupying an elevated area of one and a half acres, in the centre of the city, and well shaded with handsome trees. |
 | | The plant was established near the pond, still bearing the name of "Leonard's Forge Pond," in Taunton (now Raynham); and for two centuries the Leonards and their descendants carried on smelting iron and manufacturing therefrom articles of many kinds. |
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