All posts tagged "Marblehead"
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6.0K6Arts and LeisureAnna Green Winslow Dines with King Hooper
Anna Green Winslow led quite a busy social life as an 11-year-old schoolgirl in pre-Revolutionary Boston. She socialized with the town’s elite,...
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21.0K14Business and LaborEleanor Creesy Navigates the World’s Fastest Clipper
Eleanor Creesy became an instant celebrity on Aug. 31, 1851, when the clipper ship she navigated sailed into San Francisco harbor. The...
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45.0K61ConnecticutHurricane Carol, So Deadly Her Name Was Retired
Hurricane Carol, one of the worst to hit New England, was so ferocious the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration retired the name...
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15.6K14MassachusettsRemembering the Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635
The Great Colonial Hurricane, probably the strongest storm in New England’s history, struck on Aug. 25, 1635. The Rev. Richard Mather and...
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3.9K2MassachusettsThe Battle of Bunker Hill Throws Salem Into a Panic
Shortly before the Battle of Bunker Hill, Edward Augustus Holyoke sent his wife to Nantucket for safety. A respected doctor in Salem,...
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23.9K15Politics and MilitaryThe 1772 Gaspee Affair, Rhode Island’s Own Tea Party (But the Ship Burned), Part 1
The real first shot of the American Revolution may have been fired at the HMS Gaspee, a British customs schooner, on Narragansett Bay in...
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