All posts tagged "Belfast"
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7.1K1MassachusettsJefferson Davis in New England – The Unlikely Campaign
Mississippi Senator Jefferson Davis, who would go on to become president of the confederate states during the Civil War, was no stranger...
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4.2K5New England PlacesSix Places New England Films Were Shot
New England films number in the hundreds since the turn of the last century, partly because the region provides such rich material...
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10.0K1MassachusettsTiticut Follies, The Documentary Film About a Madhouse So Shocking It Was Banned
Titicut Follies exposed the sordid and cruel treatment of prisoners in 1966 at Bridgewater State Hospital for the criminally insane in Bridgewater,...
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6.3K30New England PlacesSix New England Places With a Unique Name
The early English and Scots-Irish settlers tended not to give a new settlement a unique name. Many New England place names came...
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42.5K11Business and LaborSix Sears Houses
In the early part of the 20th century, you could buy Sears houses for the price of a good pair of shoes...
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6.9K6Crime and ScandalMurderous Joseph Knapp Inspires Poe, Hawthorne
On May 14, 1830 Joseph Knapp, Sr., of Wenham, Mass., received a letter from Charles Grant of Belfast, Maine, demanding $350. Otherwise,...
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18.4K8bostonThe 21 New England Colonial and State Capitals
New England cities and towns used to vie for colonial and state capitals the way they now court sports stadiums, with the...
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18.5K1MaineMexico, Maine? Rome, Maine? How Maine Place Names Came To Be
Many Maine place names are not like the rest of New England’s, with Bristols and Yarmouths and Portsmouths named after counterparts in England....
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17.6K7ConnecticutHow New England Got Its Place Names
New England has six towns called Warren, one in each state, but the reason for those place names is more complicated than...
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209.1K30ConnecticutThe 1911 Heat Wave Was So Deadly It Drove People Insane
A July 1911 heat wave killed thousands of New Englanders and sent many over the brink of madness. During 11 hellish days,...
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