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Colonel Adelbert Mossman (1848–1945), an American Civil War veteran of the 35th New Jersey Infantry Regiment, designed the house for himself. [2] [3] Mossman returned to Massachusetts after the war and in 1887 organized and led Hudson's first militia, the 5th Massachusetts Volunteers. [2] Mossman was promoted to colonel while serving in this ...
Historic Northampton, a museum of local history in the heart of the Connecticut River Valley of western Massachusetts. Its collection of approximately 50,000 objects and three historic buildings is the repository of Northampton and Connecticut Valley history from the pre-contact era to the present.
The American Heritage Museum is a military history museum located on the grounds of the Collings Foundation in the town of Stow, Massachusetts, 21 miles (34 km) west of Boston. The collection consists of over 100 artifacts, most of which were formerly part of the Military Vehicle Technology Foundation collection in Portola Valley, California. [2]
History of the United States (1789–1849) ... March 4 – James Forten, African American abolitionist and ... First Lady of the United States from 1841 to 1842 as ...
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.
In April 1841, USS Peacock, under Lieutenant William L. Hudson, and USS Flying Fish, surveyed Drummond's Island, which was named for an American of the expedition. Lieutenant Hudson heard from a member of his crew that a ship had wrecked off the island and her crew massacred by the Gilbertese.
The new Revival Room restaurant and bar, which opened in Hudson last month in a 189-year-old, is having some fun with history. The architectural style of the building is French revival, which ...
The first cadets from Southern states were re-admitted in 1868, and 1870 saw the admission of the first African-American cadet, James Webster Smith of South Carolina. Smith did not graduate, so Henry O. Flipper of Georgia become the first African-American graduate in 1877, graduating 50th of a class of 77. In the 35 years between the Civil War ...