Entries Containing All of the Phrases «middlesex county» AND «massachusetts»

By By Devry Becker Jones (CC0), January 28, 2023

Newtowne and Cambridge side of the marker

RANKED BY RELEVANCE

1 ► Massachusetts, Middlesex County, Cambridge, Harvard Square — The Founding of Newtowne / Newtowne and Cambridge — This Is the Place — 1630 —

The Founding of Newtowne Massachusetts Bay Colony The Puritans of Lincolnshire and East Anglia, England, in anticipation of their emigration to New England, organized the Massachusetts Bay Company in 1628, and obtained a grant of the . . . — — Map (db m215331) HM

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2 ► Massachusetts, Middlesex County, Westford — North Bridge Battle Drum — 1775 —

This Memorial Battle Drum by Sculptor David Patric Christiana, is dedicated to those Minutemen and Militia of Middlesex County who opposed the British Regulars on the historic site at the North Bridge in Concord Massachusetts April 19, 1775. Maj . . . — — Map (db m261420) HM WM

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3 ► Massachusetts, Middlesex County, Concord — The Robbins House — Concord’s African American History — What Does Independence Look Like? —

This c. 1823 farmhouse was home to the first free generations of the Robbins family and their relatives who farmed, worked, went to school, supported anti-slavery efforts, and followed their own paths to independence. Here’s how those paths are . . . — — Map (db m223738) HM

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4 ► California, San Diego County, San Diego, Bankers Hill — La Barranca Encantada —

In 1924, San Diego socialites and patrons of the arts, Miss Alice Lee and her partner, Miss Katherine Teats, commissioned renowned architect Louis Gill to build this historic home. Gill's design for a distinctive “Canyon House” features interior . . . — — Map (db m312270) HM

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5 ► Massachusetts, Norfolk County, Newton, Newton Upper Falls — Cook's Bridge —

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

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6 ► Connecticut, Lower Connecticut River Valley Region, Middletown — Danforth Pewter Shop —

In 1756, this simple structure was the birthplace of one of New England's leading craft dynasties, the Danforth family of pewterers. For nearly a century, three generations of Danforth men fashioned everything from plain plates to graceful . . . — — Map (db m98550) HM

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7 ► Massachusetts, Middlesex County, Cambridge, Neighborhood Nine — Old Cambridge — Newtowne / From Country Village to City —

Newtowne One of the Neatest and Best Compacted Towns So wrote William Wood in New England's Prospect in 1633. At this time, sixty families occupied the first planned community in America, in which the houses were required to . . . — — Map (db m215372) HM

8 ► Massachusetts, Worcester County, New Braintree — Capt. Edward Hutchinson and His Company —

Somewhere within 1/2 mile along the base of this hill Capt. Edward Hutchinson and his company were attacked by Indians lying in ambush Aug. 2 1675, and he and more than one half of his men slain or wounded. — — Map (db m311496) HM WM

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9 ► Massachusetts, Worcester County, New Braintree — Wheeler’s Surprise — 1630 – 1930 —

One mile to the southwest, off the North Brookfield Road, Edward Hutchinson’s company seeking a parley with the Nipmucs was ambushed by Indians August 2, 1675, and more than half were slain. Captain Hutchinson died from his wounds. Captain Thomas . . . — — Map (db m311802) HM

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