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The Old Boston Post Road – Stephen Jenkins

Stephen Jenkins has chosen for the subject of this volume the oldest and most northerly of the post roads: that over which the first postrider went; which echoed to the war-whoop of the savage, saw the passage of soldiers during the French Wars; beheld the flocking of the minutemen upon the Lexington Alarm, later became the pathway of countless thousands of emigrants on their way to the rich valleys of the Mohawk and the Genesee, or to the fertile prairies of the Middle West. By this route, via New Haven, Hartford, Springfield, and Worcester, a monthly mail was established in 1673, “the first mail upon the continent of America,” as the author … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Old Boston Days & Ways – Mary Caroline Crawford

The famous happenings of an eventful period in Boston’s early history, from the dawn of the Revolution until the town became a city, are here handled with a fresh and vigorous touch. Many little-known incidents are introduced and a large amount of material hitherto the possession of some private family is included. The chapters on the early social and literary life, the establishment of the first theatre and the famous French visitors are of special interest. Miss Crawford’s style achieves that happy mingling of historical accuracy and vivacious comment that have made her previous books so successful.

Old Boston Days & Ways

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Old Boston Days & Ways.

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A history of Lowell, Massachusetts – Charles Cowley

Lowell was founded by the ‘Merrimac Manufacturing Company’ in 1822, and named after Francis C. Lowell. The village grew very rapidly from the first. In 1820 it was incorporated as a town and ten years later was chartered as a city. This book tells the story of this very important textile center from the beginning until the 1870s.

A history of Lowell, Massachusetts

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A history of Lowell, Massachusetts.

ISBN: 9783849676704.

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Lowell Basics (from Wikipedia):

Lowell is a city in the U.S. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Located in Middlesex County, Lowell (along with Cambridge) served as a county seat until Massachusetts disbanded county government in … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Rambles around Old Boston – Edwin Monroe Bacon

The author knows his city and loves it, and has a fund of anecdote as well as history up his capacious sleeve. The Boston of which he tells us reaches up to about hundredandfifty years back, without letting go of the older town of Colonial and Revolutionary days. All sorts of odd corners are portrayed, besides the well-known landmarks, without which no book on Boston would be complete. Some idea of the volume’s scope may be had from these chapter headings, selected at random: “The Storied Town of Crooked Streets,” “Types of Provincial Boston,” “The Common and Roundabout,” “Some Colonial Footprints,” …

Rambles around Old Boston

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Old Cambridge – Thomas Wentworth Higginson

The first of the chapters in the book is an antiquarian chapter; but the “Three Literary Epochs” of the second chapter — the epoch of the North American Review, that of the Dial, and that of the Atlantic Monthly — were epochs all in some manner familiar to Higginson, and a part of which he was; the last three chapters he dedicated to the famous writers Holmes, Longfellow and Lowell.

Old Cambridge

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Old Cambridge.

ISBN: 9783849676681.

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Cambridge Basics (from Wikipedia):

Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and is a part of the Boston metropolitan area.

Situated directly north of the city of Boston, … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...