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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 ...
Our Mother of Sorrows Monastery and Retreat Center is an historic Passionist monastery at 110 Monastery Avenue in West Springfield, Massachusetts.The Spanish Colonial Revival building on the campus (construction begun in 1925) is the only structure of its type in the city, was the first monastery established in western Massachusetts.
Church on the Hill, in Berkshire County House of the Seven Gables, in Salem, Essex County Sankaty Head Light, in Nantucket Faneuil Hall, Boston, Suffolk County The Flying Horses Carousel, Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County The Ware-Hardwick Covered Bridge, Hampshire and Worcester Counties The PT 796, Fall River, Bristol County The Alvah Stone Mill, Montague, Franklin County
The New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) is the oldest and largest genealogical society in the United States, founded in year 1845. NEHGS provides family history services through its staff, scholarship, website, [3] [4] educational opportunities, and research center. Today it has over 250,000 members and more than 90 staff and ...
He was a member of the Massachusetts Society of Colonial Wars. He also served as President of the Rumford Historical Association. [ 1 ] He served as the second librarian of the Winn Memorial Library , where he continued development of the historical manuscript repository during his tenure as librarian (1882-1909) and librarian emeritus (1909-1918).
Gilman Bigelow Howe (1850–1933), genealogist and president of the National Genealogical Society; Jonas Howe (1786–1865), Massachusetts state legislator; Jonas Holland Howe (1821–1898), abolitionist, artist, and Minnesota state legislator; Marshall Otis Howe (1832–1919), Vermont state legislator
The Massachusetts Archives building Documents in the Commonwealth Museum. The Massachusetts Archives is the state archive of Massachusetts.It "serves the Commonwealth and its citizens by preserving and making accessible the records documenting government action and by assisting government agencies in managing their permanent records."
William Arnold was born in Ilchester, Somerset, England on 24 June 1587 [1] to Nicholas Arnold (c. 1550–1623) by his first wife Alice Gully (1553–1596). [2] In about 1610, he married Christian Peak who was baptized 15 February 1584, the daughter of Thomas Peak of Muchelney, Somerset, [3] a village about six miles (9.7 km) west of Ilchester.