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The Massachusett Tribe at Ponkapoag is a cultural heritage group that claims descendancy from the Massachusett people, an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands. [ 2 ] While they identify as a Native American tribe , they are unrecognized , meaning they are neither a federally recognized tribe [ 3 ] nor a state-recognized tribe .
Historic marker on Massachusetts Route 138 indicating the northern boundary of the Ponkapoag Plantation or settlement. Ponkapoag / ˈ p ɒ ŋ k ə p ɔː ɡ /, also Punkapaug, [1] Punkapoag, Ponkhapoag [2] or Punkapog, is the name of a Native American "praying town" settled in the late 17th century western Blue Hills area of eastern Massachusetts by persons who had accepted Christianity.
May 29 United Airlines Flight 521 crashed after aborting takeoff, 43 of the 48 aboard were killed. [2]August 8 American Airlines Flight 765, a cargo flight, crashed into Flushing Bay while returning to LGA due to engine problems, both pilots and one passenger of the 5 aboard died.
Newspaper accounts alternately referred to the airfield as New York Municipal Airport and LaGuardia Field until the modern name was officially applied when the airport moved to Port of New York Authority control under a lease with New York City on June 1, 1947. LaGuardia opened with four runways at 45-degree angles to each other, [42] the ...
In 1970 Moswetuset Hummock was formally recognized and added to the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts. [3] The historic site is also recognized by the Native American descendants known as the Ponkapoag people. Moswetuset Hummock is located on East Squantum Street, the northern end of Wollaston Beach, Quincy Bay.
The village of Barnes Corner, New York, 80 miles north of Syracuse on Lake Ontario, had reported 65.5 inches of snow as of Monday morning, while Fort Drum to the north had 63 inches.
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Eastern Air Lines Flight 375, registration N5533, [1] was a Lockheed L-188 Electra aircraft that crashed on takeoff from Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, on October 4, 1960. Ten survived, nine with serious injuries, but 62 of 72 on board were killed in the accident.