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A local cabinet maker built the coffin. Close family and friends met for a small service in the home. Then the body was carried by a rented horse-drawn hearse to the church for a ceremony, and then on to the cemetery for the burial. By the 1890s, full-service funeral homes were beginning to appear in Milwaukee, with more space than the typical ...
Location of Worcester County in Massachusetts. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) designated in northern Worcester County, Massachusetts.It includes listings from all Worcester County communities through which Massachusetts Route 2 passes, and those that lie to their north.
The Wayside – built circa 1717; later the home of Samuel Whitney, a Minuteman who fought the British regulars at the North Bridge on April 19, 1775; home of Louisa May Alcott and her family 1845–1848; home of Nathaniel Hawthorne and his family 1852–1870; purchased in 1883 by Boston publisher Daniel Lothrop and his wife, author Harriett ...
In the 1850s Schwartzburg began to sell some of his land holding to others, and a railroad depot was established in the area. Expansion was fuelled by real estate developer and streetcar magnate Henry Clay Payne , and the village (now renamed North Milwaukee) was incorporated in 1897 and merged with the City of Milwaukee on January 1, 1929.
Before logging, the area that would become Hayward was a forest of pine and hardwoods cut by rivers and lakes. [9] In later years Ojibwe people dominated the area along with much of northern Wisconsin, [10] until the 1837 Treaty of St. Peters, when they ceded it to the U.S. [11]
The World's Largest Round Barn was built in 1916 and is part of the grounds for the annual Central Wisconsin State Fair. In 1851 and 1853, when the area was still forested, surveyors working for the U.S. government marked all the section corners in the 6 by 6 miles (9.7 by 9.7 km) square which now includes Marshfield, Hewitt, and Cameron, working on foot with compass and chain.
Location of Boston in Massachusetts. Boston, Massachusetts is home to many listings on the National Register of Historic Places. This list encompasses those locations that are located north of the Massachusetts Turnpike. See National Register of Historic Places listings in southern Boston for listings south of the Turnpike.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has a total of 192 National Historic Landmarks (NHLs) within its borders. This is the second highest statewide total in the United States after New York, which has more than 250. Of the Massachusetts NHLs, 57 are in the state capital of Boston, and are listed separately. Ten of the remaining 134 designations ...