All posts tagged "brooklyn conn."
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6.9KNew HampshireIn Search of the Roosevelt Outhouse in New England
During the Great Depression, the U.S. government built 2.3 million outhouses in rural America. They earned several nicknames, including the Roosevelt Outhouse,...
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47.2K13bostonSix Revere Bells
What better way to ring in the New Year than with Revere bells – especially since Paul Revere was born on Jan....
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19.1K4ConnecticutIsaac Bissell Electrifies Connecticut With News of the Battle of Lexington
Isaac Bissell electrified the colonies of Massachusetts and Connecticut with the news of the Battle of Lexington in April 1775. He rode...
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9.1K8ConnecticutEdith Kermit Carow Roosevelt: A Look Behind the Saintly First Lady
You have to wonder what Edith Kermit Carow was feeling at the wedding of Theodore Roosevelt Jr., and Alice Hathaway Lee. Edith,...
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17.0K7ConnecticutThe Daring, Headlong Escape of Gen. Israel Putnam
Of all the colorful exploits of Revolutionary War Gen. Israel Putnam, his escape from the British cavalry in Greenwich, Conn., ranks as...
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10.3K6ConnecticutThe Legend of the Israel Putnam Wolf Den
Gen. Israel Putnam famously left his plow in the ground when he heard about the Battles of Lexington and Concord and immediately...
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