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
Born in Massachusetts, Bostwick came as a child to Norfolk County. He was appointed high constable of the London District in 1800 and sheriff in 1805. A deputy surveyor, he laid out some of the earliest roads in the Talbot Settlement and in 1804 was . . . — — Map (db m284031) HM
Justin Holland was a 19th-century pioneer African American of the classical guitar, community leader, and abolitionist. Born in Norfolk County about 1819, he left for Massachusetts in 1833. There he took music lessons and learned to play the guitar. . . . — — Map (db m76794) 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
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* Inflectional forms of words are their plurals, singulars, and possessives as well as gramatical tenses and similar variations.
