All posts tagged "camp"
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3.1KPolitics and MilitaryThe Irish-American Army That Attacked Canada from a Vermont Farm
Alvah Richard couldn’t believe that fanatical Irish-American army was back. For the second time in four years, the self-proclaimed Irish Republican Army...
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3.3KMassachusettsWhen Massachusetts Abolished the State Police
In 1875, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts abolished the state police department. It was only 10 years old, the first state police force...
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2.0KMassachusettsJames Somerset, the Boston Runaway Who Ended Slavery in England
In 1771, James Somerset languished in an English prison ship that would soon set sail for Jamaica. There, James Somerset would be...
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3.0KMassachusettsSeven Fun Continental Army Facts
Certain Continental Army facts are implanted in the minds of U.S. schoolchildren at a young age: How patriot farmers dropped their plows...
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4.2K2MassachusettsWhen Massachusetts Was a Paradise for Tramps
So many tramps rode the rails into Massachusetts after the Civil War that in 1899 a group of charity administrators published a...
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2.8K1Business and LaborHigley Copper Coins: Connecticut’s Rare, Exciting and Historic Penny
According to the legend of the Higley copper, a Connecticut doctor with a powerful thirst and a copper mine minted the colony’s...
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4.5K2ConnecticutThe Tariffville Disaster Inspires the First Emergency Phone Call
The Tariffville disaster, a train wreck near Hartford, prompted the first-ever emergency telephone call when a doctor summoned help from a local...
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4.5K3Politics and MilitaryThe Civilian Conservation Corps, a Young Man’s Adventure
During the depths of the Great Depression, a 17-year-old boy from Warren, R.I., enlisted in the Civilian Conservation Corps. He did it...
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10.7KConnecticutRevolutionary War Veterans Reminisce (And Get Their Pictures Taken)
During the Civil War, a Connecticut minister named E. B. Hillard went on a quest to collect the reminiscences of the Revolutionary...
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4.7KArts and LeisureAmos Doolittle, Connecticut’s Paul Revere
Amos Doolittle didn’t let a little political disagreement get in the way of creating the most important images of the American Revolution....
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