All posts tagged "Israel Putnam"

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  New Hampshire

  In 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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  Massachusetts

  Thompson Maxwell, the Forrest Gump of the American Revolution

  In 1820 at the age of 78, Thompson Maxwell rode his horse more than 1,600 miles from Detroit to New England and...