All posts tagged "Taunton"
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3.8KBusiness and LaborThe Portuguese Farmers Who Made Falmouth Strawberries Famous
In 1892, Manuel Viera Martins retired from whaling and bought a cottage in the Waquoit section of Falmouth, Mass. He and his...
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18.9K4New England PlacesSix Places That Raised a Liberty Pole
Beginning in 1766, the liberty pole symbolized dissent from Great Britain, but over the years it took on different meanings for the...
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16.6K10ConnecticutSix 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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57.7K6MassachusettsJolly Jane Toppan, the Killer Nurse Obsessed With Death
Jolly Jane Toppan killed at least 31 people between 1880 and 1901, but the doctors who hired her thought she was one...
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15.1K2ConnecticutSix Strange Rocks of New England, From the Eubrontes to the Man-eating Stone of Glastonbery
It should be no surprise that New England’s stony soil should produce a goodly number of strange rocks. They have such nicknames...
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23.6K2MassachusettsTiticut Follies, The Documentary Film About a Madhouse So Shocking It Was Banned
Titicut Follies exposed the sordid and cruel treatment of prisoners in 1966 at Bridgewater State Hospital for the criminally insane in Bridgewater,...
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