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The district includes four churches, including the 1793 Universalist church and 1829 First Congregational Church, and a number of municipal buildings, including the town hall, two schools, and the 1903 Classical Revival Charles Larned Memorial Library. [2] The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. [1]
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,
Old Town House: Marblehead: c. 1727 The town house was constructed in 1727 and was a replacement for the Old Meeting House on Franklin Street. The upper level of the building served as a town hall, while the lower level was originally used as a market. Today it is still used for public events, and the upper floor has the G.A.R. Museum.
Present day Oxford and the areas surrounding it were inhabited for thousands of years before European colonization.Although archaeological sites exist in Central Massachusetts dating back to the Paleoindian period (12,000-9000 years before present) there are much more abundant archaeological remains starting in the period from 6500 to 3000 years before present, including an arrowhead ...
Map depicting tribal distribution in southern New England, c. 1600; the political boundaries shown are modern Before the arrival of European colonists on the eastern shore of New England, the area around Massachusetts Bay was the territory of several Algonquian-speaking peoples, including the Massachusetts, Nausets, and Wampanoags.
On August 1 of the year, Mr. Houghton, and his daughter, Mary decided to go to Bennington, Vermont for a pleasure drive. Mrs. Houghton decided to stay home. They were accompanied by Dr. and Mrs. Robert Hutton of New York. Mrs. Hutton (nee. Sybil Cady) was a childhood friend of Mary's and a daughter of the North Adams shoe manufacturer WG Cady.
This list of museums in Massachusetts is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.