All posts tagged "transportation"
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8.6K12bostonFrancis Lovelace Founds the Boston Post Road in 1673
Francis Lovelace languished in the Tower of London in 1675, unaware he had created the Boston Post Road two years earlier...
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5.0K2Business and LaborGinery Twichell Raced Steam Engines on Horseback … and Won
Ginery Twichell rode into legend on horseback in 1846 when he brought the news of the British elections from Boston to New...
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20.9K19Business and LaborThe Glory Days of the Berlin Turnpike
In the early 1950s, the king of Connecticut’s roads was the Berlin Turnpike, lined with colorful kitschy roadside architecture. It was the main...
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7.1K7ConnecticutPrudence Crandall Runs a Forbidden School for Black Girls
In 1831, Prudence Crandall bought a large empty house in Canterbury, Conn., setting off a national controversy. She had the effrontery to educate...
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12.8K15Business and LaborThe Glory Days of Springfield’s Indian Motocycle
For nearly two decades the Indian Motocycle made Springfield, Mass., the center of the global motorcycle business. From 1902, when the first...
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3.4K9Flashback PhotosFlashback Photo: Before the Interstate, 1922
The Interstate Highway System exists today because a young Dwight D. Eisenhower took a memorable transcontinental trip in 1919 — three years before...
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