All posts tagged "Charlestown"
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51.8K22MassachusettsExactly How New England’s Indian Population Was Decimated
Even before European colonists thinned the Indian population in New England, war and disease had already begun their dirty work. A team...
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16.9K2New England PlacesSix Loyalist Houses
A Loyalist House was likely to be seized and sold when the American Revolution broke out. Many colonies passed laws that let...
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83.7K5MassachusettsPuritan Easter, or The Devil’s Holiday
John Winthrop famously wrote in his journal that the Arbella departed for the New World on Easter Monday – March 29, 1630....
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50.6K4bostonSix Revolutionary Forts
Scattered throughout New England are dozens of revolutionary forts. Some, like Fort Halifax in Maine, date to the French and Indian wars....
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28.5K6bostonNew England’s Historic Haunted Houses
Haunted houses belong to New England lore as much as Revolutionary battles or clipper ship races. New England ghosts, witches, devils and...
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32.2K9ConnecticutSix Military Routes Used During the American Revolution
You could do worse than look at fall foliage along old military routes in New England. Some of them, originally Indian trails,...
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