Calvin C. Thayer 18,Reg.Co.G
W. Ellis Cook 42,Reg.Co.B
Corp. Lewis E. Whitney 21,Reg.Co.D
H. Perry Slocum 2,Reg.Co.F
Joseph Osgood 2,Reg.Co.E
C. Philip Hancock 2,Reg.Co.F
Jarias Lawrence 2,Reg.Co.F
Thomas Carry . . . — — Map (db m195743) WM
Bellingham Town Center circa - 1910 The Center of Bellingham as it appeared in 1910 with the old Thayer Store and Post Office. This building still stands directly across from the Town Hall. The house in the background was part of the Walnut Farm . . . — — Map (db m195711) HM
World War II
Died in Action
Francis Monterio · Benjamin Hall · Walter Lenktis · Harold Trudel · Armand Levesque · Edward Baldiga · Augusto Bozzi · Albert Prefontaine
Korea
Died in Action
Thomas Berardi P.O.W. · John Peterson
Desert . . . — — Map (db m195703) WM
First Baptist Church circa - 1910 This is a 1910 view of the Bellingham Baptist Church and Civil War Monument. The Church is the oldest in Bellingham and was built in 1826. The bell in the steeple was purchased and cast by G.H. Holbrook of East . . . — — Map (db m195742) HM
Settlers first came to this area of Massachusetts late in the seventeenth century. Jacob Bartlett, a Quaker, and Nicholas Cook, a Baptist were the earliest inhabitants and are generally known as the town pioneers. On November 27, 1719, at the . . . — — Map (db m195746) HM
Governor Richard Bellingham 1591-1672 Bellingham's namesake, Richard Bellingham was the third Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Sir Bellingham was born in England in the year 1591 and arrived in Boston in 1634. He was a Puritan Lawyer who . . . — — Map (db m195705) HM
Lyndon F. Murray Memorial Building Fire Station # 1 On December 22, 1930, this building was dedicated as a Municipal Building and Fire Station. It was designated as Fire Station #1. The first floor had a two-bay fire station, a small assembly room . . . — — Map (db m195709) HM
Maple Street North Bellingham circa 1910 A view of Maple Street looking North toward Hartford Avenue. This photograph shows two woolen mills built in the 1800's. The first building on the right (with the workers standing outside) was built in . . . — — Map (db m195707) HM
Noah Alden was the second pastor of the Baptist Church in Bellingham. Born May 31, 1725 in Middleborough, Massachusetts, Noah was the youngest of twelve children. He was the son of John and Hannah White Alden and the great grandson of John and . . . — — Map (db m195745) HM
Original Town Common circa - 1898 The Bellingham Police Department now stands on the original green of the Town Common. The small building in the center was the town's lock-up facility which was erected in 1875. The two-room Massey School House . . . — — Map (db m195740) HM
Town Center circa 1898 This is a panoramic view of the Town Center as it appeared in 1898. On the left sits the Bellingham Town Hall which was constructed in 1802. This early photograph depicts this historical building as it appeared almost one . . . — — Map (db m195741) HM
One of the most magnificent surviving carriage houses in New England, the Anderson Carriage House was designed by Edmund Wheelwright, former city architect of Boston, for the summer estate of William Fletcher Weld II. Its design was inspired by the . . . — — Map (db m33022) HM
Putterham School
c. 1768
The only remaining eighteenth-century schoolhouse in Brookline, Putterham School was built to serve the farm families of South Brookline. Classes were held at this one-room schoolhouse for more than 150 years. Around . . . — — Map (db m33020) HM
Edward Devotion (1621-85) settled in Brookline around 1650, when it was a farming community known as Muddy River. Devotion's farm included apple orchards and pastureland for sheep and cattle. His son left a bequest to the town for public schooling: . . . — — Map (db m286809) HM
A Long, Rich History
The history of this site is rich and complex. The first inhabitants of this area were the Massachuset, a nomadic people who created camps and worksites, beginning some 8,000 years ago. Centuries later, after European settlers . . . — — Map (db m308344) HM
A View Across Time
Imagine stepping back in time and history. This place has witnessed centuries of change. Once a lush, green woodland, it later became a bustling industrial hub. In recent decades, it faced challenges, but thanks to dedicated . . . — — Map (db m308742) HM
In this building in 1801 Paul Revere-famed " Midnight Rider" Patriot and silversmith- founded an industry as well as a business.
Here he rolled copper successfully for the first time in America. Thus beginning one of the most vital industries . . . — — Map (db m56048) HM
The Mills
Near this spot, in the late 1600's the first mill was built in Canton (then named Dorchester.) Consisting of forty-five acres assigned to Thomas Holman, this saw-mill was still standing in 1700. By 1760, at this dam, Mr. Leonard . . . — — Map (db m308389) HM
Canton Corner Cemetery is among the oldest active burial grounds in the United States. What began as a modest one-acre 'Common Ground' has blossomed since its 1707 creation into a sprawling, artfully landscaped cemetery covering over 70 acres (26 . . . — — Map (db m308332) HM
Canton Dale Resident
Copper Works Laborer
Each day, a bell called workers from
their nearby homes to the copper
mill. Many were skilled workers drawn
to Canton Dale from across the
country and around the world for the
opportunities . . . — — Map (db m308562) HM
Constructed in 1835
National Register of Historic Places
Placed by Canton Historical Commission
Dedicated July 4th 1993
National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark
Designated by the American society of Civil Engineers
Dedicated . . . — — Map (db m308404) HM
Copper Rolling Mill
Paul Revere was the first person in the United States to successfully
produce copper sheathing. Rolled copper was indispensable to the
ship-building and military industries. Copper could protect wooden
ship hulls from . . . — — Map (db m308377) HM
Draft Horse Barn
Built as part of an expansion plan in 1845, this Greek
Revival style barn once sheltered oxen and draft horses.
The oxen helped deliver the heavy loads of copper from Canton
Junction to the mill site. The horses pulled the . . . — — Map (db m308376) HM
Edward J. Beatty
American Legion Post #24
This hallowed park is dedicated to the men and women of our Canton community that served in all branches of the armed forces, regardless of where their final resting place may be.
• • •
May this . . . — — Map (db m308333) WM
More than two hundred years of industry took their toll on the land.
The factories on this site processed huge amounts of metal, chemicals,
fuels, and other materials. For much of that time, work was done with
little concern for long-term . . . — — Map (db m308712) HM
Harnessing Nature
In 1963, the Army Corps of Engineers completed the
dam structure before you as part of a flood protection
plan. Canton had suffered through several major floods
in the years 1886, 1938, and 1955. This plan was devised
after . . . — — Map (db m308314) HM
Honest Miller’s House
The structure, once located in front of where you now stand,
was the home of the village miller. On March 14, 1801,
Paul Revere purchased this property and other real estate in its
immediate vicinity. "Upon the ground there . . . — — Map (db m308346) HM
Immigrants: The Key to the Site's Success
By 1880, immigrants from several countries, especially Ireland, were
bringing their skills and hard-work ethic to help fuel Canton's economic
success. Canton's many manufacturing industries provided . . . — — Map (db m308373) HM
A wide variety of items was produced on this property over the past 300 years.
As early as 1717, grain was ground in a gristmill, powered by water from the millpond. During the first three years of the American Revolution (1776-1779), a . . . — — Map (db m308348) HM
The Neponset band of the Indigenous
Massachusett Confederation lived
here for generations before the arrival
of Europeans. They hunted in the
surrounding forests, fished in the rivers
and raised extensive fields of corn,
squash, beans and . . . — — Map (db m308564) HM
Paul Revere Heritage Site
"I have engaged to build me a Mill for Rolling Copper into sheets which for me is a great undertaking and will require every farthing which I can rake or scrape." Paul Revere, December 1800
Interpretive signs were . . . — — Map (db m308335) HM
PONKAPOAG
For thousands of years this land has been inhabited
inhabited by the Massachusett Tribe.
Their seat of power was at the nearby mountain called massa-adchu-es-et (now
Great Blue Hill). They called this area Ponkapoag (today Canton, . . . — — Map (db m308307) HM
The north line of Ponkapoag Plantation second of the Apostle Eliot's Praying Indian towns, set apart by the Dorchester Proprietors in 1657. — — Map (db m308384) HM
Powering the Engine of Progress
An essential component of a Banbury mixer, the engine
A before you-like the truss bridge behind you-stands as
a reminder of the industrial nature of this site. The Banbury
mixer and reduction system was an . . . — — Map (db m308351) HM
During World War II hundreds of
workers, many of them women, came to
work at the Plymouth Rubber Company
plant, making rubber products for the
war. They specialized in rubber soles and
heels for soldiers' boots.
The Plymouth Rubber . . . — — Map (db m308566) HM
The Canton Viaduct
As a board member of the newly founded Boston Providence Railroad, Joseph Warren Revere persuaded the company to run their new line through the center of Canton. The main issue with this was the challenge of crossing Neponset . . . — — Map (db m308340) HM
The Power's in the Water
This location represents the lowest flow point for
the east branch of the Neponset River that passes
through the property to the Fowl Meadows (a very
large marshy area of 8,400 acres encompassing eight
surrounding . . . — — Map (db m308319) HM
By the 1830s Paul Revere's son, Joseph Warren Revere
was in full control of the family copper business and
looking to expand. Always forward thinking, he recognized
the railroads' potential to revolutionize the way people and
goods moved . . . — — Map (db m309609) HM
The land on which you now stand has been a part of this
nation's history since the American Revolution, when
gunpowder was produced and used in that war. It was then
purchased by the American patriot, Paul Revere, in 1801.
For 101 years, Paul . . . — — Map (db m308349) HM
Dedicated to the memory of Joseph Antoine and Joseph Wilson, keepers of the first Minot Ledge Lighthouse who, while manning the Light on the night of Apr. 17, 1851, lost their lives when the lighthouse was swept into the sea during a violent . . . — — Map (db m42104) HM
On this site 3,514 tons of Quincy granite were hewn into 1,079 dovetailed blocks whose final weight totalled 2,367 tons.
On the two circular forms seen here, the cut stones were carefully assembled to assure perfect fit; then disassembled . . . — — Map (db m42102) HM
Founded April 25, 1874
"For promoting the boating interests of the town"
Incorporated October 29th 1874
First boathouse built on Ames Street site in 1875.
Destroyed by lightning in July 1882.
Second boathouse built on this site in . . . — — Map (db m56100) HM
Oldest house in Dedham, a part of it built about 1636. Homestead of Jonathan Fairbanks, who, with his sons John, George, and Jonathan, Junior, signed the Dedham Covenant September 10, 1636. Ancestral home of the late Vice- President Fairbanks. — — Map (db m48808) HM
(northeast side, inscribed 1766)
The Pillar of Liberty
To the Honor of William Pitt Efqr
& other Patriots who saved
AMERICA from impending slavery
& confirm'd our most loyal Affection
to Kg George III by procurring
a repeal of . . . — — Map (db m292763) HM
Dedicated to the men and women of Dedham who served their country with honor and Valor and the lasting memory of those who gave their lives during the Vietnam War.
PFC John A. Barnes III, U.S. Army 12 Nov. 1967, Awarded Congressional Medal of Honor . . . — — Map (db m62533) WM
This stone was first placed near this spot July 22 1766. It supported a wooden column surmounted by a bust of William Pitt. Both column and bust disappeared about the close of the last century. The stone was removed from the opposite corner in . . . — — Map (db m292764) HM
In 1783, Nehemiah Carpenter, Samuel Baker and Jeremiah Hartshorn conveyed to the selectmen and their successors in office forever four acres of land on which the meeting house had been built for use as a town common. Mr. Carpenter also gave one . . . — — Map (db m55878) HM
Settled by members of the Atherton, Boyden, Hodges, Morse, Pratt, Robbins and other families, This section was known as Robbins Corner for many years. The identity changed with the arrival of the railroad and the establishment of East Foxboro Depot . . . — — Map (db m55869) HM
The homes on Baker Street represent people and diverse architecture from two significant periods of Foxborough history, the 19th century straw hat era and the 20th century transition to industrial manufacturing. — — Map (db m55872) HM
First Settler The first dwelling in what would become Foxborough was erected in 1669. It was located west of nearby Wading River on a farm laid out for Captain William Hudson who
was a Boston tavern keeper. Hudson never lived here, but leased . . . — — Map (db m55866) HM
Not all patients of the Massachusetts Hospital for Dipsomaniacs and Inebriates or its successor, the Foxboro State Hospital, had known family contacts or families able to provide for their burial. To insure a proper final resting place, the . . . — — Map (db m55873) HM
Hervey Pettee built a thread mill at this site in 1813. A spring freshet in 1831 washed out the dam and ruined the factory. A stone structure soon replaced it. Charles Freeman & Son later operated a wool scouring mill. The flood of Feb. 2, 1886 tore . . . — — Map (db m55874) HM
Proud of those who fought and died in the Civil War, as well as those who assisted the war effort in so many ways, the people of Foxborough wanted a more suitable monument than just a tablet as a symbol of their appreciation. In 1868 they erected . . . — — Map (db m55877) HM
Populated by members of the Morse family since the early 1700's, this section of Foxborough was known as Morseville. By 1737, Jedediah Morse had dammed the Neponset River forming Crack Rock Pond and built both a saw mill and a bloomery forge near . . . — — Map (db m55879) HM
Originally settled as Paineburgh, taking its name from the many members of the Paine family who settled here, this section of Foxborough had a strong sense of community with its own elementary school, chapel, railroad station and Post Office. . . . — — Map (db m55870) HM
To help support its public school,Dorchester set aside a 650 acre farm in this vicinity which it leased in 1710 to Robert Calef for a total of 308 years. Solomon Hews was operating a tavern here in 1728 when governor William Burnet and the . . . — — Map (db m55885) HM
Is built upon portions of the estate of Ebenezer Warren, who answered the call in the battle Lexington April 19, 1775. He served in the American revolution with two brothers, general Joseph Warren, later killed at the battle of Bunker Hill, and . . . — — Map (db m55871) HM
The Reservoir on Powder House Hill The circular granite structure to the rear of the town hall lot is the reservoir erected by Union Straw Works in 1858. A windmill provided power to draw water up from the reservoir which was then gravity fed . . . — — Map (db m55875) HM
Here in unmarked graves lie the poor, the destitute, the strangers known only to God. Struck down by death in our midst, they were afforded the decency of a proper burial by a caring community. Some were residents of the town's poor farm. Others . . . — — Map (db m38449) HM
Union Straw Works. Members of the Carpenter family became engaged in various straw manufacturing operations. In 1843 they built the Great Bonnet Shop at 18-22 Wall Street and in 1845 the Hamlet House at 12-16 Wall St. Erastus P. Carpenter . . . — — Map (db m55881) HM
27 June 1950 • 31 January 1955
Dedicated to the men and women of Franklin who served their country when the democracy of a free people was threatened. — — Map (db m61265) WM
Dedicated to the men and women of Franklin who served their country in the pursuit of a free Iraq.
20 March 2003
We commemorate and shall remember those who gave their lives on our behalf. — — Map (db m61263) WM
In remembrance of the men of Franklin who volunteered to serve in the war against Spain because of:
· Conflict of Spanish policies threatening the United States power in the western hemisphere
· Mysterious Sinking of the U.S. Battleship . . . — — Map (db m61369) WM
5 August 1964 • 7 May 1975
Dedicated by the people of Franklin to honor those who served their country during hostilities in Vietnam. — — Map (db m61264) WM
This Monument is dedicated to those who left their daily tasks among us to fight and die if needed be that freedom may live.
Those who have made the supreme sacrifice in the World War
Lawrence J. Clark • Edward L. Grant • James R. Murray • Elijam . . . — — Map (db m61262) WM
7 December 1941 • 31 December 1946
Dedicated to the honor and sacrifice of the men and women of Franklin who answered their country's call when hostile nations made unprovoked attacks upon free nations of the world. — — Map (db m61261) WM
When Clarence Cutler was born in Newton, there were no cars, airplanes, movies, radios, recorded music, or Red Sox. Telephones and electric lights were new and only for the very, very rich. But by 1910, when he spoke as valedictorian about the . . . — — Map (db m218965) HM
John Ross, a native of New York, moved with his family to Medfield in 1939. A month after he graduated with honors from Medfield High School in 1943, he joined the U. S. Coast Guard, and he eventually attained the rank of signalman third class. . . . — — Map (db m218980) HM
The original house, built in 1651, was burned when King Philip's Indians burnt the town of Medfield in 1676. Seth Clark, the owner, received indemnity from the colonial government and in 1680 rebuilt the present Peak house, so called because of its . . . — — Map (db m48797) HM
Straw hats were manufactured in Medfield beginning in 1801, which grew to become a significant industry in the town's history for 155 years. These images show workers at The Excelsior Hat Factory run by Col. Mitchell, located where Montrose School . . . — — Map (db m218994) HM
A Little History About The Medford State Hospital
The state hospital campus was the first such facility to be designed in the “cottage style" to deliver fresh air, light, social interaction, and meaningful daily activities to people on the . . . — — Map (db m250745) HM
173 Adams Street, Milton, Massachusetts.
Birthplace of George Herbert Walker Bush, June 12, 1924.
Forty-first president of the United States of America. — — Map (db m194689) HM
The Neponset River was first bridged at this site, and a grist mill erected in 1634 by Israel Stoughton, a deputy of Dorchester who was censured by Governor Winthrop for defending popular rights. — — Map (db m305855) HM
Churchill's Lane. When the Indians sold their land near the mouth of the Neponset River they removed to the territory south of the Blue Hills, which they called Ponkapoag, sweet water. — — Map (db m308385) HM
Established in 1672. Milton's burying ground of 102 acres is an example of the garden style design and is on the National Register of Historic Places — — Map (db m244972) HM
The area "5 miles square north of Charles River" assigned to Dedham in 1635 by the Mass General Court. Title obtained by purchase from the Indians William Nehoiden, 1680, and John Maugus, 1681. Settlements existed here prior to 1694. Incorporated . . . — — Map (db m270147) HM
Cook's Bridge (also known as the Elliot Street Bridge) on the site of one of the earliest
bridges to span the Charles River and connect Needham and Newton. The original bridge was
built around 1714 on land owned by Captain Robert Cook, one of . . . — — Map (db m270141) HM
Abigail Smith Adams, the wife of John Adams, 2nd President, and mother of John Quincy Adams, 6th President, was born here in 1744. — — Map (db m299708) HM
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Metropolitan District Commission
"If you complain of neglect of Education in sons, What shall I say with regard to daughters, who every day experience the want of it. I most sincerely wish that some more liberal . . . — — Map (db m299680) HM
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Metropolitan District Commission
"By yesterday's post I received two Letters, dated 3 and 4 of July, and was greatly heightened by the prospect of the future hapiness and glory of our Country; nor am I a little . . . — — Map (db m299676) HM
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Metropolitan District Commission
"After hearing a very good sermon, I went with the multitude into King Street to hear the Proclamation for Independence read and proclaimed from the balcony of the State House. The . . . — — Map (db m299679) HM
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Metropolitan District Commission
"Difficult as the Day is, cruel as this War has been, separated as I am on account of it from the dearest connection in life, I would not exchange my Country for the Wealth of the . . . — — Map (db m299686) HM
"Tis almost 14 years since we were united, but not more than half that time have we had the happiness of living together. I consider it as a sacrifice to my Country and one of my greatest misfortunes [for my husband] to be separated from my children . . . — — Map (db m299685) HM
1914 1918
In Honor of the Citizens of the
Town of Plainville
Who served in the World War
Harold L. Anderson · Coren Arakelian · Clair L. Bent · Roderick O. Bell · Samuel H. Bell · Fred Berger · Howard P. Bigelow · Lawrence F. Blackwell · . . . — — Map (db m195780) WM
World War II
1941 · · · 1945
In Memoriam
Frederick Carlin U.S.A. · Clifford A. Cooper U.S.A. · William French U.S.A. · Charles E. Harris U.S.N. · Robert Heintz U.S.A. · Henry F. Snell U.S.A. · Herman W. Suprenant U.S.N. · Theodore F. Young . . . — — Map (db m195782) WM
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