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7.5K1Columbus Smith Found Fortune Abroad, Sadness at Home.
Columbus Smith, a Vermont lawyer, found in 1844 he could make a fortune by researching old deeds to locate the rightful heirs...
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Columbus Smith of Vermont Found Gold in the British Wills
If Vermont’s Columbus Smith paid you a visit or sent you a letter in the mid-1800s, you were in luck. Smith was...
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4.9KA New Englander in the lore of Lincoln plus canal schooners and an execution in Today’s History Highlights
Maine Public Broadcasting has given listeners the 1863 story of Billy Boy Laird, the only soldier executed for desertion in the state...
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3.1KTornadoes, Mapmaking, and Peace Treaties in Today’s History Highlights – 7.26.2013
If you need someone to ask directions, the job goes to a woman. It was ever thus. In exploring its archive of...
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2.5KKitchens, declining democracies and black governors in Today’s History Highlights – 7.24.2013
Don’t let your kitchen become a drudgehole! No, not that drudgehole. We’re simply recalling the marketing wizardry behind GE’s all electric kitchen...
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29.9K34Classic Movies Shot in New England, 13 Award-Winners
Hundreds of filmmakers have come to New England since the turn of the last century and some have shot classic movies here....
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