All posts tagged "Westward Migration"
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2.9K1Arts and LeisureFrom Soups to Nuts – Ten Eponymous New England Classic Foods
What could be a better guarantee that your name will never be forgotten than having a food named after you? Here, in...
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5.6K5Business and LaborSix Historic Barns
Thousands of the historic barns of New England have survived severe weather, westward migration, suburban sprawl and competition from corporate agribusiness. Often...
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3.6K2members onlyWeather History of New England – Six Storms that Changed Our World
Weather history often shapes our lives in ways we can't imagine. But for storms of 1746, the French, under leadership of Duc...
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4.6K2MassachusettsThe Remittance Men: John Dudley Sargent and Robert Ray Hamilton
In 1890, the descendants of two of America’s first families – the Sargents and the Hamiltons – traveled to Wyoming to start...
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7.3K4ConnecticutWhen Cleveland Belonged to Connecticut
The City of Cleveland and nearly all of Northeastern Ohio once belonged to Connecticut. The land, 3.5 million acres of it, was...
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6.8K8MaineThe 21 New England State Capitals
New England cities and towns used to vie for state capitals the way they now court sports stadiums, with the result that...
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1.2KMassachusettsLydia Bacon Goes to the Western Wilderness (of Pittsburgh)
Boston native Lydia Bacon decided to join Army Lt. Josiah Bacon -- her brand-new husband -- in the Pittsburgh wilderness in 1811....
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1.8K1MassachusettsFlashback Photo: Julia Archibald Holmes Climbs Pikes Peak
Julia Archibald Holmes ignored people who told her not to do it, and on Aug. 5, 1858 became the first woman on...
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3.7K4MassachusettsAmelia Stewart Knight: ‘No fool of a job to be mixed up with several hundred head of cattle’
In the spring of 1853, Boston-born Amelia Stewart Knight, her husband Dr. Joel Knight and their seven children set out from Monroe...
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2.9K15New HampshireN.H. Gov. Benning Wentworth Grabs the King’s Masts, Along With Vermont
If it weren’t for Benning Wentworth, Vermont probably wouldn’t exist. Wentworth was the Colony of New Hampshire’s first governor, and on Jan....