All posts tagged "transportation"
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3.0KBusiness and LaborMartha Coit Journeys from New London to Boston, 1726
A trip to Boston to buy clothes all the way from New London was no small matter in 1726, as Martha Coit...
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15.0K15Business and LaborThe Middlesex Canal, New England’s Incredible Ditch
The Middlesex Canal, now largely forgotten, was a 27-mile waterway that drove the industrialization of the Merrimack Valley for 50 years starting...
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5.4K3Business and LaborLewis Downing Conquers the West With the Concord Coach
The Concord Coach might have been called the Lexington Wagon had Lewis Downing decided against visiting his fiancee in New Hampshire. A...
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