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Left from the Center on Central St. is the junction with Plymouth St., 0.3 m .; right on this street at 0.6 m. is Sachem's Rock, called by the Indians Wonnocoote. Here Miles Standish, Samuel Nash, and Constant Southworth met with Ousa- mequin in 1649, and purchased from him 'all land running seven miles in each direction from weir.' The Indians were to be paid in the following goods: 7 coats, a yard and one half of cloth in each coat; 9 hatchets; 8 hoes; 20 knives; 4 moose skins; and 1012 yards of cotton.
At 15.1 m. is the junction with State 28 (see Tour 19).
CHRONOLOGY
1000-08 Norsemen from Greenland visit New England.
1524 Giovanni da Verrazano cruises along New England coast
1602 Bartholomew Gosnold reaches Massachusetts Bay.
1603 Martin Pring explores coast of Maine and Massachusetts. .
1604-05 De Monts and Champlain explore Maine and Massachusetts coast. 1605 George Weymouth explores Massachusetts coast.
1607-08 George Popham attempts to colonize 'Northern Virginia' (New England).
1609 Henry Hudson cruises along New England coast.
1614 Adriaen Block, from Manhattan, passes through Hell Gate and sails along as far as Nahant Bay. John Smith maps New England coast line, and region thereafter is known as New England.
1620 Mayflower lands at Plymouth with cargo of Pilgrims, John Carver elected first Governor. Plymouth Hill fortified.
1621 Pilgrims celebrate Thanksgiving and build their first church.
1623 Miles Standish conducts first organized war against the Indians while the men of Dorchester establish a fishing post on Cape Ann.
1630 John Winthrop arrives with a fleet of eleven ships and nine hundred settlers; Boston begins.
1631 Maritime history of Massachusetts commences when Governor Win- throp launches the Blessing of the Bay on the Mystic River.
1634 Mistress Anne Hutchinson outrages Boston's clergy.
1635 Boston opens a Public Latin School for Boys.
1636 General Court establishes a college in Newtowne, later Cambridge.
1638 First printing press in America north of Mexico set up in Cambridge by Stephen Daye. Lynn has a shoe factory.
1639 A fulling mill is in operation in Rowley.
I64I Enterprising men in Salem produce salt by the evaporation of sea water.
1642 Harvard holds first commencement.
1643 Colonists organize the New England Confederation to combat Indians and the Dutch of New Amsterdam.
1645 A Latin school opens in Roxbury.
1646 John Eliot translates the Bible into the Indian tongue.
1647 Popular education begins with law requiring elementary schools in towns of fifty persons and secondary schools in towns double that size.
1648 Margaret Jones of Charlestown is hanged for being a witch.
1649 General Court passes legislation controlling the practice of medicine.
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Chronology
1652 Property ownership and church affiliation is required for the franchise. The first book store opens in Boston.
1657 Halfway Covenant allows baptized as well as converted church mem- bers to vote.
1660 Council for Trade and Plantations commences its activity in London.
1675 King Philip makes war on colonists.
1677 Massachusetts produces a medical treatise on small pox and measles.
1684 Era of Bible Commonwealth passes with revocation of Massachusetts Charter.
1687 Britain sends Andros to govern the Dominion of New England.
1689 Irate colonists overthrow Andros.
1691 New Massachusetts Charter abolishes church membership as pre- requisite for voting.
1692 Witches abound in Salem and the hysteria spreads.
1699 Early law to avoid spread of infectious diseases.
1704 Boston News Letter, first American newspaper, appears.
1734 Jonathan Edwards preaches hell-fire sermons at Northampton and begins Great Awakening.
1742 Faneuil Hall becomes Boston's Town Hall and market place.
1745 Governor William Shirley leads Massachusetts troops in the capture of Louisburg.
1761 Lawyers organize Bar Association in Suffolk County.
1763 Pontiac's braves devastate Massachusetts frontier in second serious Indian uprising.
1764 Great Britain commences policy of imperial control and passes Sugar Act.
1765 POPULATION: 240,433. Stamp Act, designed to increase imperial revenue, follows Sugar Act.
1766 Colonials inaugurate boycott and Great Britain repeals Stamp Act and modifies Sugar Act.
1767 Britain passes Townshend Act placing duties on paint, glass and tea. Massachusetts is in a fever of excitement; Boston merchants are especially alarmed by appearance of imperial customs officials.
1768 Massachusetts develops the Circular Letter to provide a bond of unity for colonies. Cargo of Hancock's sloop Liberty lands in defiance of authorities. British troops arrive in Boston.
1770 British sentry fires on crowd collected near Old State House and Boston resentment runs high. Colonial pressure results in repeal of Townshend Act.
1773 Britain passes Tea Act which leads to Boston Tea Party; Britain answers with coercive measures, closes port of Boston.
I774 Angry colonists vote to resist British taxation at mass meeting in Faneuil Hall.
1775 Paul Revere rides, Bunker Hill is fought, Gage evacuates Boston and George Washington takes command of the Continental Army.
1776 POPULATION: 299,841. Massachusetts unanimously approves the . Declaration of Independence, publicly proclaimed from the Old State House.
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1778 A popularly elected constitutional convention meets in Cambridge.
1780 Massachusetts ratifies State Constitution containing Bill of Rights; John Hancock elected Governor. Judicial interpretation of Constitu- tion abolishes slavery. Academy of Arts and Sciences is organized in Boston.
1781 Massachusetts Medical Society is founded.
1784 Empress of China makes her maiden voyage to the Orient.
1785 Massachusetts surrenders her western lands to the National Govern- ment.
1786 Bridgewater develops machinery for the manufacture of cotton. Shays leads rebellion of debt-ridden farmers. General Rufus Putnam and other Massachusetts men organize the Ohio Land Company starting the New England movement of population to the Ohio frontier.
1788 Massachusetts ratifies the Federal Constitution and becomes the sixth state to enter Union. Massachusetts suggests amendments to the Constitution from which the Bill of Rights develops.
1789 President George Washington visits Boston; Governor John Hancock refuses to call on him, insisting that the Governor of Massachusetts is a more important personage than the President of the United States. The Franklin of Boston is the first American ship to reach Japan; the Atlantic, another Boston vessel, sails into the harbors of Bombay and Calcutta. A steam-propelled paddle boat invented by Nathan Reed is used on Wenham Pond and begins operation between Danvers and Beverly.
1790 POPULATION: 378,787.
1792 Paul Revere opens a bell foundry in Boston.
I794 The Middlesex Canal, 27 miles long, connecting the Merrimack and Mystic Rivers, is an 18th century wonder.
1796 John Adams of Massachusetts elected President of the United States. Boston creates Boston Dispensary to provide medical aid for the poor in their homes and in clinics.
1800 POPULATION: 422,845. Thomas Jefferson elected President of the United States. Massachusetts Federalists are in a panic of appre- hension.
1802 Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse employs Jenner method of vaccination at Harvard.
1803 Massachusetts with other New England States and New York threaten to secede from the Union in protest over the Louisana Purchase. War with Tripoli (1801-05); Massachusetts makes history with Captain Preble and the Constitution.
18IO POPULATION: 472,040. Philharmonic Society becomes first or- chestra in New England.
1812 Massachusetts House of Representatives condemns Federal Govern- ment for leading country into second war with England.
1814 Hartford Convention convenes; conservative Federalist delegates from Massachusetts condemn War of 1812, threaten nullification and secession. Steam power looms of Francis C. Lowell hum in Waltham and lead to industrialization of Lawrence, Lowell, Fall River and New Bedford.
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Chronology
1815 North American Review and the Handel and Haydn Society are founded. A Peace Society, the first of its kind in the world, is or- ganized in Boston.
'1818 People discuss building canal across Cape Cod at Sandwich, which materializes almost a hundred years later (1909).
1820 POPULATION: 523,287. Conservative Massachusetts reacts to westward expansion; calls a constitutional convention which incor- porates cities, removes religious tests for office holders and discards all qualifications for the franchise excepting a small property tax which Daniel Webster, John Adams and Judge Joseph Story resist because it allows 'the poor and the profligate to control the affluent.' Maine acquires statehood making the Missouri Compromise possible.
1821 Boston has a real public high school.
1822 City Charter is granted Boston.
1823 Jonas Chickering manufactures a piano.
1824 John Quincy Adams elected President of the United States.
1825 The American Unitarian Association organizes in Boston and first High School for Girls in the United States opens.
1826 Massachusetts boasts its first railroad (horse-drawn), constructed for hauling granite blocks from Quincy to the Bunker Hill Monument in Charlestown. Prohibitionists commence activity in Massachusetts and Total Abstinence Societies make their appearance.
1829 Perkins Institution for the Blind is founded.
1830 POPULATION: 610,408.
1831 Garrison commences anti-slavery crusade and founds The Liberator in Boston.
1832 New England Anti-Slavery Society forms in Boston.
1833 A constitutional amendment completely separating church and state passes Legislature. Abolition sentiment grows; New England Anti- Slavery Society becomes American Anti-Slavery Society. The Boston Academy of Music comes into existence.
1834 Angry mob burns Ursuline Convent at Charlestown in outburst of anti-Catholic feeling.
1835 Horace Mann at work and normal schools are first created in Massa- chusetts.
1837 Mary Lyon establishes Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, claimed to be the first American college for women. Emerson delivers 'America's Intellectual Declaration of Independence' in his Phi Beta Kappa Address at Harvard.
1838 Lowell Mason introduces Music in the public schools of Boston. Evening medical courses are offered at Tremont Temple.
1840 POPULATION: 737,699.
1846 Anaesthesia successfully used at Massachusetts General Hospital.
1847 Louis Agassiz lectures on embryology at Lowell Institute.
1849 Garrison submits a petition for the suffrage of women.
1850 POPULATION: 994,514. A national Women's Rights Convention convenes in Worcester.
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1852 Boston Public Library, made possible by public subscription, opens its doors.
1855 Know-Nothing Legislature appoints 'Nunnery Committee' to pry into secrets of Catholic convents and schools. Marghareta Meyer (Mrs. Carl Schurz) opens kindergarten for poor children in Watertown.
1856 Massachusetts gives its electoral vote to John C. Fremont, the Re- publican candidate for the presidency.
1860 POPULATION: 1,231,066.
1861 Baltimore mob attacks Sixth Massachusetts Regiment on its way to Washington.
1863 Marie Jakrysewka founds the New England Hospital for Women and Children.
1864 State Board of Charities is established.
1865 Law forbids discrimination against any race in public places. Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology opens its doors. Labor of children under ten in factories is prohibited.
1867 New England Conservatory of Music begins its career in Boston. Mary Baker Eddy founds Christian Science in Lynn.
1869 First State Board of Health is established. Evening schools estab- lished. The last whaler sails from New Bedford.
1870 POPULATION: 1,457,351. Massachusetts Woman's Suffrage As- sociation elects Julia Ward Howe president.
1872 Dr. Susan Dimock has a training school for nurses at the New England Hospital for Women and Children. A fire sweeps Boston, causing a loss of $70,000,000.
1876 Alexander Graham Bell successfully experiments with telephone.
1880 POPULATION: 1,783,085. An Art Museum for the public opens at Copley Square in Boston.
1881 Henry Lee Higginson endows the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
1882 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow dies at Cambridge; Ralph Waldo Emerson dies at Concord.
1887 Labor Day is declared a legal holiday. The Legislature passes the Em- ployers' Liability Act. Clark University is established as second purely graduate school in America.
1889 Cotton spinners organize a National Cotton Mule Spinners Union.
1890 POPULATION: 2,238,943.
1891 Death of James Russell Lowell.
1892 First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston. John Greenleaf Whittier dies.
1894 Boston and Maine Railroad opens North Station.
1897 Boston has first subway in the United States.
1899 South Station opens.
1900 POPULATION: 2,805,346.
1907 Savings banks permitted to conduct life insurance business.
1908 Ford Hall Forum is established in Boston.
19IO POPULATION: 3,366,416.
IQII Workmen's Compensation Act is passed.
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1912 A minimum wage law is passed. Textile workers in Lawrence and street car operators in Boston strike. A department of Labor and Industry is established.
1918 German submarine appears in Cape Cod waters near Orleans, bom- bards tug and three empty coal barges, causing great consternation; air forces ordered to Cape region.
1919 Boston Police Strike.
1920 POPULATION: 3,852,356.
1923 Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts succeeds Warren G. Harding as President of the United States.
1924 Massachusetts women vote.
1926 Beverly shoe machine plant is the largest in world. Drs. Minot and Murphy discover cure for pernicious anemia for which they receive Nobel Prize.
1927 Niccolà Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are executed.
1928 Roger Babson predicts unusually good business year in 1929. The submarine S-4 sinks off Provincetown with 40 men.
1929 Earthquake rocks state. Ex-President Calvin Coolidge returns to his law practice in Northampton. Boston University celebrates 60th anniversary.
1930 POPULATION: 4,249,614. Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary Celebration.
1933 Convicts fire Charlestown State Prison.
1934 Massachusetts textile workers answer call of general textile strike.
1935 POPULATION: 4,350,910. Boston Public Latin School celebrates 300th anniversary. Teachers' Oath Bill, requiring all teachers in public schools and colleges to take an oath of allegiance to the Con- stitution, becomes law.
1936 Harvard University celebrates 300th anniversary.
1937 Child labor amendment with significant national implications again defeated. State House picketed, for the first time in ten years, by representatives of the League of Women Voters, Massachusetts State Federation of Labor, New England Committee for Industrial Or- ganization, trade unions and left wing parties, in protest against al- leged unfairness in the hearings of the amendment. Repeal of Teachers' Oath Law, passed in Legislature, vetoed by Governor.
FIFTY BOOKS ABOUT MASSACHUSETTS
Adams, Brooks. The Emancipation of Massachusetts. Boston, 1887.
Adams, Charles Francis, Jr. Massachusetts: its Historians and its History. Boston, 1893.
Adams, Charles Francis, Jr. Three Episodes of Massachusetts History. 2 vols. Boston, 1892.
Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams. Boston, 1930.
Adams, James Truslow. New England in the Republic. Boston, 1926.
Adams, James Truslow. Revolutionary New England. Boston, 1923.
Adams, James Truslow. The Adams Family. Boston, 1930.
Adams, James Truslow. The Founding of New England. Boston, 1927.
Bacon, Edwin M. Historic Pilgrimages in New England. New York, 1898.
Bayley, Frank William. Five Colonial Artists of New England: Badger, Black- burn, Copley, Feke, Smibert. Boston, 1929.
Bolton, Charles K. The Real Founders of New England. Boston, 1929.
Brooks, Van Wyck. The Flowering of New England. New York, 1936.
Clark, Arthur Hamilton. The Clipper Ship Era. New York, 191I.
Cousins, Frank, and Riley, Phil M. Colonial Architecture of Salem. Boston, I919.
Cousins, Frank, and Riley, Phil M. The Wood Carver of Salem (Samuel Mc- Intire). Boston, 1916.
Crawford, Mary Caroline. Old Boston Days and Ways. Boston, 1909.
Crawford, Mary Caroline. Social Life in Old New England. Boston, 1914.
Daniel, Hawthorne. The Clipper Ship. New York, 1928.
Digges, Jeremiah. Cape Cod Pilot. Federal Writers' Project. Provincetown, Mass., 1937.
Dow, George Francis. Domestic Life in New England in the 17th Century. Tops- field, Mass., 1925.
Drake, Samuel Adams. Old Landmarks and Historic Personages of Boston. Boston, 1906.
Duniway, Clyde Augustus. The Development of Freedom of the Press in Massa- chusetts. New York, 1906.
Earle, Alice Morse. Customs and Fashions in Old New England. New York, 1894.
Early, Eleanor. And This is Boston! Boston, 1930.
Eliot, Samuel Atkins (editor). Biographical History of Massachusetts. 3 vol- umes. Boston, 19II.
Ellis, George E. Puritan Age and Rule in the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay, 1629-1685. Boston, 1888.
Forbes, Harriette Merrifield. Gravestones of Early New England and the Men Who Made Them. Boston, 1927.
French, Allen. The Day of Concord and Lexington. Boston, 1925.
Hart, Albert Bushnell (editor). Commonwealth History of Massachusetts. 5 vols. New York, 1930.
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Fifty Books About Massachusetts
Hitchcock, Henry Russell, Jr. The Architecture of H. H. Richardson and His Times. New York, 1936.
Howe, M. A. DeWolfe. Boston, The Place and the People. New York, 1924.
Kimball, Fiske. Domestic Architecture of the American Colonies of the Early Republic. New York, 1927.
Kittredge, George Lyman. Witchcraft in Old and New England. Cambridge, 1929.
Kittredge, George Lyman. The Old Farmer and His Almanack. Boston, 1904. Lockwood, John Hoyt (editor). Western Massachusetts, 1636-1925: A History. 4 vols. New York, 1926.
Major, Howard. The Domestic Architecture of the Early American Republic: The Greek Revival. Philadelphia, 1926.
Mckay, Richard C. Some Famous Sailing Ships and their Builder, Donald Mckay. New York, 1928.
Martin, George H. The Evolution of the Massachusetts Public School System: A Historical Sketch. New York, 1915.
Mathews, Lois Kimball. The Expansion of New England. Boston, 1909.
Moore, Ernest Carroll. Fifty Years of American Education (1867-1917). Bos- ton, 1917.
Morison, Samuel Eliot. Builders of the Bay Colony. Boston, 1930.
Morison, Samuel Eliot. Maritime History of Massachusetts. Boston, 1921.
Morison, Samuel Eliot. Three Centuries of Harvard. Cambridge, 1936.
Nutting, Wallace. Massachusetts Beautiful. Framingham, Mass., 1923.
Parrington, Vernon L. Main Currents in American Thought. 3 vols. New York, 1927-30.
Place, Charles A. Charles Bulfinch, Architect and Citizen. Boston, 1925. Usher, Roland G. The Pilgrims and Their History. New York, 1918.
Weeden, William B. Economic and Social History of New England, 1620-1789. 2 vols. Boston, 1894.
Winsor, Justin (editor). Memorial History of Boston, 1630-1880. 4 vols. Boston, I88I.
Wright, T. G. Literary Culture in Early New England, 1620-1730. New Haven, 1920.
INDEX
INDEX
Abbot Academy (Andover), 492 Abbot Hall (Marblehead), 275 Abbot Homestead (Andover), 493 Abbot, Mrs. Nehemiah, 492-93 Abbot Tavern (Andover), 493 Aberjona River, 465
Abington, 626-27
Abolition, Worcester's prominence in, 395 Abolition Movement in Springfield, 360-61 Abram's Rock (Swansea), 502
Acre, the (Haverhill), 245
Act of 1750, Anti-Theatre, III (see Music and Theatre)
Acton, 446-47 Acts of 1926, 62 (see Government) Acushnet, 613-14 Adams, 596
Adams, Abigail Quincy, birthplace of, 384 Adams and Son, Monument of, 337
Adams, Charles Francis, 15I
Adams, Henry, 86, 90
Adams House (Chelmsford), 51I
Adams House, John, site of (Arlington), 133 Adams House, Joseph, site of (Arlington), 134 Adams, James, 434
Adams, John, 43, 45, 57, 103, 133, 277, 336, 339, 412
Adams, John Quincy, 293, 336, 340
Adams Mountain, Observation Tower (Rowe), 456
Adams, Robert, 82 Adams, Samuel, 39-41, 255, 277
Adams Stone Cairn, 340 Adams, William T., 610
Addison Gallery of American Art (see Mu- seums; Art)
Aeronautical Laboratory, Guggenheim (Cam- bridge), 205 Agassiz House (Cambridge), 193 Agassiz, Louis, 53, 106, 202, 424, 601 Agawam, 573-74
Agawam Race Track, 574 Agricultural Society (Brockton), 178
Agriculture, 18, 21, 34, 46 Ainsworth, Henry, 113 Airports: Boston, 175; Great Barrington, 582; Mendon, 439 Alander, 583 Alcott, Amos Bronson, 93, 95, 105, 213, 216
Alcott, Louisa May, 213, 216, 512, 513 - Alden House (Bridgewater), 590 Alden, John, 176, 625, 626
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, home of, 151 Alford, 581 Alford Marble, 581 Alger, Horatio, Jr., 108 Alien and Sedition Acts, 45 Allen, Charles, 395
Allen, Ethan, 42, 311, 528 Allen, Frank G., 426 Allen House, Abner, 475 Allen, Moses, 475
Allen, Rev. Thomas, 3II
Allen Tavern (Hadley), 526-27
Allen, Thomas, 469
Allen, Walter S., home of, 608
Allerton Family, 324
Allied Printing Trades' Council (Lawrence), 253 Allston, Washington, 120
Alta Crest Farms, 522 Altar Rock, 562
American Copyright League, 105
American House (Maynard), 446, 492
American International College (Springfield), 367 American National Red Cross, 543 American Optical Company (Southbridge), 475
American Party, 49
American Publishers' Copyright League, 105
American Revolution, 211, 140
American Steel and Wire Company (Worces- ter), 395
American Thread Company (Holyoke), 248 American Waltham Watch Company, 371
American Woolen Company (Maynard), 72, 253, 445, 446 American Youth Hostel, 306
Ames Building (Boston), 86, 157
Ames, Fisher, birthplace, site of, 219
Ames, Nathan, 209
Ames, Nathaniel, Sr., 218-19
Ames Mansion (Chicopee), 210
Ames Manufacturing Company (Chicopee), 209
Ames Murder Trial, 412
Ames, Oakes, 616
Amesbury, 508-09
Amherst, 127-30
Amherst College, 128-29
Amherst, Lord Jeffrey, 524
Anawan House (Taunton), 539 Anawan Rock, 539 Ancient Musical Instruments, Casadesus Collection of, 164
Andover Historical Society House (Andover). 492
Andover Newton Theological School (Newton), 298-99 Andover Theological Seminary (Cambridge), 491
Andrew-Safford House (Salem), 350 Andros, Sir Edmund, 56, 59, 368, 417, 607 Angle Tree Monument, 429 Annisquam, 236
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Index
Annisquam River, 242 Annisquam Willows, 242 Ansart, Louis, 510 Anthology Club of Boston, 100, 154 Anthony, Susan B., birthplace of, 597 Anti-Poverty Society, 10I
Antiquarian House, 216, 325
Anti-Slavery Society of America, 48, 104 Apostle to the Indians (sce Eliot, John) Appalachian Mountain Club, 17
Appalachian Trail, 459, 534, 579
Appeal to the Great Spirit, Cyrus Dallin's, I65
Apple, the Macintosh, 550
Appleton Chapel, 197 (sce Harvard College) Appleton, Frances, 193
Appleton Manufacturing Company (Lowell), 26I
Apple-Tree Fleet, 33I Aptuxcet Trading Post, reproduction of
(Bourne), 590-91
Aqueduct, ancient, 559
Arbella, the, 374, 375, 493
Architecture, 79-88 (sce Bulfinch, McIntire, Richardson, and buildings by name)
Arctic Exhibit, 333 Arlington, 130-35
Arlington Mills (Lawrence), 254
Arnold Arboretum, 14
Arnold, Benedict, 225, 293, 388
Arnold House, Samuel (Weymouth), 383 Arnold, James, 171-72
Army Base, 167 Armory, U.S. (Springfield), 366 Arrowhead (Pittsfield) 317
Arsenal, U.S. (Watertown), 377
Art, 117-24, 137, 149, 178, 329; 592
Addison Gallery, 117; American Art, 117; Boston, 137; Boston Art Club Gallery, 149; Boston Athenaeum, 123-24; Copeland Collection (Brockton Library), 178; Grave- stone Art, 119-20; Italian Primitives, 117; Modern French, Paintings, 117; Modernist Religious, 592; Provincetown, 329; Puri- tan Influence, 117-21; Silhouettes (Essex Institute), 119; Specialized American Col- lections, 117
Articles of Confederation, 44
Artists' Ball, 240
Artists, Gloucester Society of, 240
Arts and Crafts, Holyoke League of, 248 Asbury Grove, 419
Ashburnham, 540-4I
Ashfield, 569 Ashland, 436
Ashley Lake, 599
Ashmere Reservoir, 534 Assabet Peninsula (Maynard), 445
Assembly Hall (Salem), 350
Association of Farmers, Mechanics, and other Working Men, 6 Assonet Neck, 19 Assumption College (Worcester), 40I
Astronomical Observatory, Harvard, 512 Astronomical Pictures (Cambridge), 203 Athenæum, Boston, 85 Athenæum, Salem, 347 Athol, 45I Atkinson Common, 295
Atkinson Tavern and Store (W. Springfield), 573 Atlantic, Floating Laboratory, 595
Atlantic Cotton Mills (Lawrence), 251 (see Textile Industry)
Atlantic Monthly, 100-01, 104, IC6
Attleboro, 612-13
Attucks, Crispus, Monument to, 162, 435 Atwood, Harriet, 247
Atwood House, Old (Chatham), 592
Auburn, 543 Augustinian Fathers (Lawrence), 253 Austin, Jane, 213
Avenue of Elms, 424
Avery, Jonathan, 518
Avery Oak, the, 222
Aviaries (sce Bird Sanctuaries) .
Avon, 588-89
Ayer Homestead (Haverhill), 246 Ayer, James C., 447 Ayer, 447-48 Azoreans, 330
Babbingtonite, 250
Babbitt, Isaac, 369 Babbitt Metal, 369
Babcock, Katurah, 45I
Babson House (Gloucester), 243
Babson Institute, 382
Babson Park (Wellesley), 382
Bacon House (Bedford), 433 Bagley Homestead (Amesbury), 508
Bagley, Sarah G., 65
Baker, Betsey Metcalf, 440
Baker, George Pierce, 113
Baker Homestead (Franklin), 61I
Baker Homestead (Westwood), 440
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