All posts tagged "Lynn"
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25.5K1Rhode IslandObadiah Holmes, The Baptist Martyr The Puritans Should Have Left Alone
The Puritan leaders of Massachusetts viewed Obadiah Holmes as a loathsome Baptist, and they ordered him whipped 30 times in public. They...
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14.8K3Today's History Highlights ArchiveNeshobe Island, The Algonquin Round Table Summer Home in Vermont
During the 1920s and 1930s, rumors about the crazy doings on Neshobe Island flew through the resort hotels along Vermont’s Lake Bomoseen....
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9.0K30New England PlacesSix New England Places With a Unique Name
The early English and Scots-Irish settlers tended not to give a new settlement a unique name. Many New England place names came...
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25.4K13New HampshireThe Great Throat Distemper of 1735
In 1735, a young child in Kingston, N.H., came down with a cold and all of New England would get sick. The...
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13.3K6bostonHow the Greek Immigrants Came to New England
In 1860, U.S. Census takers recorded 328 Greek immigrants living in America. Among them were 40 young men and boys. They arrived...
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24.7K1Business and LaborThe Return of ZaRex
Generations of New Englanders grew up on ZaRex, a sweet fruity syrup they could make into a drink, into snow cones or...
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