All posts tagged "genealogy"
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5.2KArts and LeisureSamuel Bemis, America’s 1st Photography Nut
Samuel Bemis was a Boston dentist who bought one of the first cameras in America in 1840 and took the first known...
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5.7K1Arts and LeisureHow Hartford’s Ancient Burying Ground Was Saved by the Gold Street Lady
The Ancient Burying Ground, the oldest historic site in Hartford, contains the remains of 6,000 early men, women and children who settled...
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14.5K9UncategorizedThe Many Mansions of Edward Searles
In 1921, coroners had Edward Searles body exhumed months after his death. Their conclusion, after examination, was that he had not been...
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14.6K4Arts and LeisureThe Gravesites of Six Revolutionary Heroines
The gravesites of such revolutionary heroes as Paul Revere and John Adams are well known and well marked, but where are the...
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31.1K13ConnecticutSix Oldest Libraries in New England
Identifying New England’s oldest libraries is no easy task. In the early days of European settlement, book collections took many different forms....
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43.4K39bostonA Brief History of the Boston Brahmin
There’s more to being a Boston Brahmin than simply having an early Puritan ancestor, graduating from Harvard and living on Beacon Hill....
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