All posts tagged "1774"
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29.1K5Business and LaborSix New England Ghost Towns
Though people typically think of ghost towns as belonging to the Old West, New England actually has plenty. Villages that once supported...
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2.0K4bostonJudith Sargent Murray, the Forgotten Revolutionary
In 1984, 20 volumes of 5,000 letters by an 18th-century feminist were discovered in Natchez, Miss. Judith Sargent Murray wrote them, having...
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8.0K9bostonThe Almanac, Indispensable Day Planner for the Busy Colonist
When John Winthrop set foot on the shores of Salem in 1630, he carried with him an out-of-date almanac that belonged to...
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18.3K6MassachusettsBefore Old Glory, There Was the Taunton Flag
The people of Taunton, Mass., celebrate the Taunton Flag with a friendly festival on their green every October. But when first raised...
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10.9K3ConnecticutJohn Adams Has a Spa Day in 1771 – at Connecticut’s Fashionable Stafford Springs
The Revolutionary War disrupted the finances and ambitions of all the founding fathers, but none more than Dr. Joseph Warren and his...
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10.9K4MassachusettsBoston Light, The Cursed Lighthouse of Boston Harbor
The first Boston Light stood as a beacon in Boston Harbor for 60 years until the British blew it up in 1776....
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