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The Oxford Main Street Historic District is a national historic district encompassing the historic center of Oxford, Massachusetts.The 95-acre (38 ha) district extends along Main Street from Huguenot Street in the south to Front Street in the north.
Robbins House—Built circa 1790–1800; home of Caesar Robbins, a formerly enslaved African-American and Revolutionary War veteran. In 1870–71, the house was moved to Bedford Street, near Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. In 2011 it was moved to its present site at 320 Monument Street, across from the Old North Bridge and the Old Manse. Lexington
The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a Google map. [1] Essex County, of which Lawrence is a part, is the location of 461 properties and districts listed on the National Register. Lawrence itself is the location of 24 of these properties ...
T. E. Lawrence (known as Lawrence of Arabia) grew up in Polstead Road, North Oxford. Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984), Poet Laureate, was an enthusiast about North Oxford and wrote poems mentioning the area, such as May-Day Song for North Oxford: Belbroughton Road is bonny, and pinkly bursts the spray Of prunus and forsythia across the public way,
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, a new breed of women started to emerge from the depths of circus tents around the world: the strong-woman. These women quickly drew large crowds of circus lovers ...
Elvira Stone (September 13, 1816 – January 9, 1900) was an American postmaster, genealogist, and teacher. She served as postmaster at North Oxford, Massachusetts from 1857 and as a member of the school board, 1870–73. Interested in genealogical researches, she traced out the descendants of Gen. Ebenezer Learned and much of that part of this ...
Sarah Anne Bright (1793–1866) produces what is possibly the earliest surviving photographic image taken by a woman. [1]Constance Fox Talbot (1811–1880), wife of the inventor Henry Fox Talbot, experiments with the process of photography, possibly becoming the first woman to take a photograph.
125 County Road in Plympton, MA [88] Swett–Ilsley House: Newbury 1670 Judge Samuel Holten House: Danvers: 1670 Chaplin–Clarke House: Rowley: c. 1670: Oldest part built around 1670, lean-to section added around 1700 before a change in ownership. Gould House: Topsfield: c. 1670: 73 Prospect Street, Topsfield. Earliest section 1670; addition ...