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Windows Live® Search Results Amherst, town, Massachusetts, United States. Located in a rich farming area, it is an educational centre, the seat of Amherst College (1821) and the University of Massachusetts (1863). Its many old homes include those of the poets Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost and the novelist Helen Hunt Jackson. The lexicographer Noah Webster, one of the founders of Amherst College, also lived here. The town was named after the British commander Lord Jeffrey Amherst. Population (1980) 33,229; (1990) 35,228.
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