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8.6K30New 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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7.0K2Business and LaborThe Panic of 1907 and the Maine Man Who Caused It
You might suppose the Federal Reserve banking system was begun in response to the great stock market crash of 1929, but it...
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16.8KNew HampshireNew Hampshire’s Constitutional Convention Creates a New Nation
In February 1788, George Washington was staying close to home at Mount Vernon, anxiously awaiting news from New Hampshire. The state’s constitutional...
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6.7KMassachusettsThomas Hancock and his Other Nephew – The One who wasn’t John
Thomas Hancock had two nephews: John, whose outsized signature on the Declaration of Independence is knowna round the world, and Ebenezer –...
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13.1K1MassachusettsThe China Trader Who Built the Lyman Estate
The Lyman Estate in Waltham, Mass., commemorates one of the greatest China traders of his age, Theodore Lyman. Few other memorials, written...
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11.2K7Business and LaborWhen the Music Stopped: Chickering and the Piano Wars of 1850
Chickering & Sons Piano Company was always a two-person operation. It needed a technical expert to make the most advanced pianos of...
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