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New England Fire and History Museum, Brewster [19] Old Colony & Fall River Railroad Museum , Fall River, closed in September 2016 after years of low attendance. All railcar exhibits moved to other museums or sold to railroads.
The history of Norfolk, Virginia as a modern settlement begins in 1636. The city was named after the English county of Norfolk [1] [2] and was formally incorporated in 1736. . The city was burned by orders of the outgoing Virginia governor Lord Dunmore in 1776 during the second year of the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), although it was soon rebu
This is a list of historic houses in Massachusetts.. Samuel Lincoln House, Hingham, built on land purchased 1649 by Samuel Lincoln, ancestor of President Abraham Lincoln Stephen Phillips House is over 200 years old and is located in the Chestnut Street District, in Salem, Massachusetts, United States.
Location of Norfolk in Virginia. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the independent city of Norfolk, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below may be ...
Daily life in colonial New England (Bloomsbury, 2017) online. Karlsen, Carol F. The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England (1998) Lockridge, Kenneth A. A New England Town: The First Hundred Years: Dedham, Massachusetts, 1636–1736 (1985), new social history online; Perlmann, Joel, Silvana R. Siddali, and Keith ...
City of Norfolk Sewells Point 1923 Annexation; USS Monitor Center and Exhibit Newport News, Virginia Archived 2004-10-22 at the Wayback Machine; Mariner's Museum, Newport News, Virginia; Hampton Roads Naval Museum Archived 2015-07-17 at the Wayback Machine; Norfolk City Historical Society; Norfolk County Historical Society
Oldest surviving stone American Colonial house in New England, museum since 1899. [1] Buckingham House: Milford: 1640 Core dates to 1640 modifications in 1725 and 1753. NRHP. [2] [3] Feake-Ferris House: Greenwich: 1645 Core dates to 1645 modifications in 1689. [4] Thomas Lee House: East Lyme: 1660 Began as a one-room house, museum since 1897 ...
In 1898, the Lynn Historical Society erected a historical marker near the site which read "The First Iron Works. The first successful iron works in this country established here. Foundry erected in 1643. Joseph Jenckes built a forge here in 1647 and in 1652 made the dies for the first silver money coined in New England. In 1654 he made the ...