All posts tagged "Connecticut River Valley"
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16.3KMassachusettsThe Cold Storm and Great Freeze of 1857
The Cold Storm and Great Freeze of 1857 prostrated New England during the winter of 1856-57, one of the worst ever. Thirty-two...
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11.4KMassachusettsMary Bliss Parsons, the Witch of Northampton
The year 1656 wasn’t the first time Mary Bliss Parsons of Northampton was accused of witchcraft. Nineteen years later, in 1675, she...
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10.0K2MassachusettsNew England’s Gun Valley, Child of the Springfield Armory
New England’s Gun Valley began with George Washington, who in 1777 scouted the site on an old Puritan muster ground in Springfield,...
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23.1K19ConnecticutThe Rise and Fall of the Wethersfield Red Onion
Every year in Wethersfield, Conn., the local historical society pays rent on an 18th-century warehouse not with money, but with Wethersfield red...
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6.8K2MassachusettsThe Birds’ Best Friend: How Ernest Baynes Saved the Animals
Ernest Baynes was the closest thing New England, and the world for that matter, will ever get to a real-life Dr. Doolittle....
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