Business and Labor
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3.5K1The House Servant’s Directory
Robert Roberts, butler to the rich and famous, wrote a popular house servants’ directory that defined polite society before the Civil War....
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7.5KSix New England Places To Learn About Irish History
Outside of Ireland, New England may be one of the best places to explore Irish history. After all, many people of Irish...
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8.9K3The First Shopping Mall in Each New England State
In 1947, New England’s first shopping mall broke ground in Stamford, Conn. No one knew for sure whether it would even survive....
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7.4K1Higley 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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5.9KThe Vermont Country Store – Nine Surprising Facts
You can’t have missed the catalog for the Vermont Country Store in your mailbox, and you may well have visited one of...
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6.4KThe Telegraph Hills of Massachusetts
Along the east coast of Massachusetts stretching from Boston to Martha’s Vineyard lies a series of Telegraph Hills. So named around 1801,...
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