All posts tagged "plimoth plantation"
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7.9K2ConnecticutSamuel Maverick Writes A Guide to the Wonders of New England – in 1660
Samuel Maverick, as his name suggests, didn’t like to go along with the crowd. The Puritan crowd, that is. He came to...
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10.1K10ConnecticutSix Amazing Indian Women From New England
Indian women faced double discrimination since the first European colonists arrived in the Americas. Many fought back against the prejudice that destroyed...
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9.0K8Business and LaborRiver Gods of the Connecticut River Valley Create A World of Their Own
During the 150 years before the American Revolution, a series of aristocrats known as the River Gods ruled the Connecticut River Valley....
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15.2K3ConnecticutEight Things You Didn’t Know About the Pumpkin (But Want To)
If the English colonists knew how much pumpkin they’d eat when they got to New England, they might have had second thoughts...
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23.8K4MassachusettsHow The Old Deluder Satan Act Made Sure Puritan Children Got Educated
In 1675, William Scant of Braintree, Mass., came before the court for breaking a law called the Old Deluder Satan Act: He had...
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32.7K4bostonSix Revolutionary Forts
Scattered throughout New England are dozens of revolutionary forts. Some, like Fort Halifax in Maine, date to the French and Indian wars....
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