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The Cambridge Historic District is located in an irregular pattern along streets in the village of Cambridge in Washington County, New York.It is a 105-acre (42 ha) area reflecting the extent of the village when it was first incorporated in the 1860s and its subsequent development in the years the Rice Seed Company, largest in the world at the time, was located here.
Hooper-Lee-Nichols House, Brattle Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. History Cambridge was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1905 as the Cambridge Historical Society. Members initially met in private homes and on the Harvard University campus to present lectures on Cambridge history.
Louise Mirrer is an American historian who is president and CEO of the New-York Historical Society. [1] Under Mirrer’s direction, the New-York Historical Society has launched a series of exhibitions, including Slavery in New York; New York Divided: Slavery and the Civil War; A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls; French Founding Father: Lafayette’s Return to ...
Cambridge is a town in Washington County, New York, United States. It is part of the Glens Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area . [ 3 ] The town population was 1,952 at the 2020 census.
In his retirement he continued his historical research and translation work. [1] He remained active with academic groups and, in 1921, he accepted the position of president of the Cambridge Historical Society. [3] He died at his home in Cambridge on March 3, 1935 at the age of eighty-four. [1]
The settlement is named after Cambridge in England. The town and village named Cambridge were once in Albany County, but were transferred to Washington County in 1791. Hubbard Hall in Cambridge is an 1878 Victorian Opera House, a contributing property to the Cambridge Historic District located on East Main street. It fell into disuse in the ...
John Greville Agard Pocock ONZM (/ ˈ p oʊ k ɒ k /; 7 March 1924 – 12 December 2023) was a New Zealand historian of political thought.He was especially known for his studies of republicanism in the early modern period (mostly in Europe, Britain, and America), his work on the history of English common law, his treatment of Edward Gibbon and other Enlightenment historians, and, in historical ...
The Hulsean Lectures were established from an endowment made by John Hulse to the University of Cambridge in 1790. [1] At present, they consist of a series of four to eight lectures given by a university graduate on some branch of Christian theology .