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Amherst town (1990 pop. 35,228), Hampshire co., central Mass., in a fertile farm area; inc. 1759. Named for Lord Jeffery Amherst , it is a college town. Emily Dickinson was born and lived there all her life. Helen Hunt Jackson was also born there, and Ray Stannard Baker, Eugene Field, Robert Frost, and Noah Webster lived in the town. It is the seat of the Univ. of Massachusetts, Hampshire College, and Amherst College. The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art is there.

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Amherst, Canada, USA La Planche (Canada)1. Canada (Nova Scotia): the original French name ‘The Land’, a reference to its location on rising ground above the Tantramar Marshes, gave way to Amherst in 1759 in honour of Jeffrey Amherst, later 1st Baron Amherst, the British commander in North America who captured Canada from the French between 1758 and 1760.2. USA (Massachusetts): founded and named in 1759 after Jeffrey Amherst.

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