Massachusetts : a guide to its places and people, Part 76

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Publication date: 1937
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company
Number of Pages: 802


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Norfolk, 428


Norfolk Agriculture School, 427


Norfolk County Courthouse, 219


Norfolk Prison Colony, 428


Normal School, Site of First State, Lexington, 257 Norman's Woe, 243


Norse Legend, 19


Norse Monument, Adams, 568


Norse Wall House, 333


Norsemen, 328


North Adams, 459-60, 596


North American Review, The, 100, 104, 106, 188 North Andover, 493


North Attleborough, 415


North Bellingham, 610


North Beverly, 420


North Blandford, 484 Northborough, 473


North Bridgewater, 176


North Brookfield, 523


North Canal (Lawrence), 253


North Carver, 535


North Common (Lowell), 265 North Easton, 616


North Egremont (South Egremont), 582


North Hadley, 527 North Hanson, 628


North Parish (Greenfield), 454


North Pembroke (Pembroketown), 620


North Reading, 432 North Shore, 10


North Uxbridge, 605 North Wilbraham, 477 Northampton, 301-05 Northeastern University, 164


Northern Artery, 414


Northern Light, 503


Northfield, 306-08


Northfield Seminary, 308, 567


Northfield Summer Conferences, 308


Norton, 308-10 Norton, Charles Eliot, 203


Norton Corbett House (Ipswich), 417 Norton, F. B., 395


Norton Grinding Company, 395


Norton House (Oak Bluffs), 556


Norton, Thomas, 245


Norumbega Park, 300


Norwell, 618-19; Industries of, 619


Norwood, 426 Norwood Press, 427


Norwottucks (Indians), 356


Notch, the (Amherst), 57I


Noyes Homestead (Newbury), 416


Noyes, John (Salem), 491


Noyes Pond (Tolland), 553


Nurse Rebecca House (Danvers), 431


Nye Homestead (Marion), 499


Nymph, the, 24I


Oak Bluffs, 556 Oakham, 602


Oak Hill House, Boston (Museum of Fine Arts), 84 Oak Hill, Village (Newton), 299


Oak Knoll (Danvers), 43I


Oakley Country Club, 377


Obelisk, Fishermen's Memorial (Marblehead), 278 Observation Tower (Lynn), 269


Observation Tower (Windsor), 530


Observatories, Astronomical, Whitin Observa- tory (see Wellesley College)


Observatories (Cambridge), 203 (see Harvard College)


Observatories (Lawrence), 281


Observatory, Mitchell, 561


Oceanographic Institution (Woods Hole), 595 O'Connell, Cardinal, 78; bust of, 264


Octagonal Brick House (Townsend), 461


Octagonal House (Reading), 490 Orne, Colonel Azor, 277; house of, 277 Old Babcock Tavern, 607 Old Bay Path, 524


Old Blacksmith Shop (South Egremont), 582


Old Bloody Brook Tavern (Deerfield), 225-26 Old Brig, 277


Old Bristol Academy Bldg., 370


Old Brown House (Adams), 568 Old Brownstone Milestone, 365 Old Cambridge (see Cambridge) Old Castle, the, 24I


Old Cemetery (Wellfleet), 505


Old Church House, 232 Old Corner Bookstore, 104 Old Corner Bookstore Building, 155 Old County Jail, 294


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Index


Old Deerfield Street (Deerfield), 224-25 Old Elms, home of Gov. Claflin, 297 Oldest House (Hamilton), 419


Oldest Private House (South Egremont), 582 Old Farmer's Almanac, 542


Old Fletcher Tavern (Westford), 71


Old Forge, Site of (Hanover), 619


Old Furnace, Village (Hardwick), 607


Old Garrison House (Bedford), 434


Old Harbor Village, 169


Old Indian Burying Ground, 502 (see Burial Grounds, Indian)


Old Iron Works House (Saugus), 413


Old Ironsides, 174 (see Constitution, Frigate)


U.S.


Old Jethro, 520


Old Maanexit Ford, 544


Old Man of the Mountain, 613 Old Manse, 214


Old Mansion House, 372


Old Methodist Church (South Truro), 505


Old Milestone (Walpole), 428


Old Newbury, 292


Old North Church, 140 (see Boston)


Old Ordinary (Hingham), 622


Old Powder House, Plymouth, site of, 324 Old Rake Shop, The, 599


Old Rehoboth (Swansea), 501


Old Ship Church, 80 (see Architecture)


Old South Meeting House, 155-56 (see Boston)


Old State House, 156-57 (see Boston)


Old Stone Academy Building (Framingham Center), 520


Old Stone Mill (West Stockbridge), 581


Old Storehouse, site of (Northampton), 572 Oldtown Hill (Newbury), 416


Old Town House (Marblehead), 275


Old Wheat Tavern (Carlisle), 434


Old Windmill (Chatham), 592


Old Windmill (Eastham), 503


Old Woodbury Tavern (Beverly), 421


Olde Burnham Inn, Ye (Ipswich), 416-17 (see Burnham Harte House)


Olde Egremont Tavern (South Egremont), 582 Oldham, John, 375, 475, 623 Oliver, Thomas, 26


Olympic Trials (Worcester), 402


O'Neill, Eugene, 144, 330, house of, 335, (see Provincetown)


Onset, 498


Opera House (Boston), 164-65 (see Music) Optic, Oliver, 610


Optional Charter Law, 60 (see Government) Orange, 452 Orchard House, 216


Order of the Knights of St. Crispin, 69 (see Labor)


Orient, Ports of (Salem), 345 (see Shipping) Orient Springs Picnic Grounds (Pelham), 550 Orleans, 494 Orleans, Site of Battle of, 495 Orvis, John, 71


Osgood, House (Amesbury), 508 Otis, 484, 599


Otis House, Harrison Gray, 152


Otis, James, 100; House, 623 Otis, James, the younger, 103 Otis, Melville, 629


Otis Reservoir and Falls, 484


Ottershaw Farm (Westwood), 439 Ousamequir, 629


Oven's Mouth (Westwood), 440 Oxford, 543-44 Oyster Pond, 592


Pacific Club, 562


Pacific Cotton Mill, 254


Pacific Print Works (Lawrence), 254


Packard Falls, 529


Page House (Bedford), 434


Page House (Danvers), 430


Page, Nathaniel, 434


Pageant Field (see Mt. Holyoke College)


Paine, Francis A., 333


Paine House, Timothy (Worcester), 402


Paine, Robert Treat, statue of, 370


Palfrey, John Gorham, 105-06


Palmer, 608 Palmer Center, 607-08


Palmer, George Herbert, 491


Paper House, 242


Paper Mill Village (Pepperell), 461


Parish House (Medway), 442


Parker, A. G., 209


Parker, Captain John, 256


Parker, Charles Edward, 210


Parker Tavern (Reading), 490 Parker, Theodore, 14I


Parkman Francis, 90, 106


Parkman's House (Boston), 150 Parks:


Acushnet (New Bedford), 290; Alliance (Amesbury), 507; American Legion (Ty- ringham), 482; Balance, geological phe- nomenon (Charlemont), 458; Beacon (Webster), 544; Bell Rock Memorial, 272; Blunt (Springfield), 367; Boulder, 480; Bridge (New Bedford), 290; Buttonwood (New Bedford), 290; Childs, 305; City Hall (Pittsfield), 312; Crane Memorial (Pittsfield), 313; Elm (Worcester), 400; D. W. Field, 313; Forest (Springfield), 366; Forest River (Salem), 352; Garfield (Norwell), 619; Fort Hill (Lowell), 619; Garfield (Norwell), 619; Grenville (Ware), 525; Howe Memorial (Spencer), 522; Independence (Beverly), 421; Institute (Worcester), 400; Island Grove (Abing- ton), 627; Lake (Worcester), 403; Lake Pearl (Franklin), 611; Longfellow (Cam- bridge), 444; Look Municipal, 305; Lucy Larcom (Lowell), 264; Lyons (Beverly), 421; Memorial (West Bridgewater), 589; Mission (Williams College), 388; Mittin- eague (West Springfield), 479; Mohawk (tourist cabins; Charlemont), 457; Moun- tain (Holyoke), 250; Mt. Hood, 490; Municipal (Boston Common), 162; Mu- nicipal (Franklin), 170; Nickerson Park, The Roland C. (Orleans), 495; Nonacioicus Park (Ayer), 448; Paragon (amusement center), 622; Pinehurst, 466; Pontoosuc Lake, 318; Prospect Hill (Waltham), 373; Public Garden (Boston), 150; Purgatory Chasm (State Park), 605; Puritan Lawn Memorial, 412; Putnam Memorial, 602; Rocky Mt. (Greenfield), 454; Rocking Stone, 601; Roosevelt (Blackstone), 606;


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Parks:


Russell (Arlington), 133; Schermerhorn, 599; Sewall Woods, 490; Shipyard (Mat- tapoisett), 499; Stage Fort, 243; State Tourist (Lanesborough), 575; Tannery Falls (Picnic grounds, Charlemont), 457- 58; Taylor (Sunderland), 570; Tekoa, 479; Town Park & Beach (Yarmouth), 592; Victoria (Amesbury), 508; Whately Glen, 564; White City, 521; Whitney, 599


Parmenter Garrison House, site of (Sudbury), 47I


Parris, Alexander, 84 (see Bunker Hill Monu- ment)


Parris, Reverend Samuel, 344


Parson Capen House (Topsfield), 80


Parsons, Hugh, 359-60


Pascommuck Boulder (Easthampton), 572


Pawtucket Canal (Lowell), 261


Paxton, 603


Paxton, Charles, 603


Paxton, Williams, 329


Peabody, 119, 422-23


Peabody, early glass center, 119


Peabody, George, 347, 422


Peabody House, Colonel Benjamin (Middle- ton), 432


Peabody Institute (Danvers), 422, 43I


Peace Party House (Pittsfield), 313


Peace Statue (Orange), 452


Peacock Window, stained glass by La Farge, 397


Peaked Hill, 559


Peaked Hill Bar, 507


Peak House (Westwood), 44I


Peace Jubilee, 142


Pearson, Major Aaron, 433


Pearson Tavern (Wilmington), 433


Peary, Admiral Robert E., 315


Pearson Hall (Andover), 491 Andover Academy)


(see Phillips


Pease House (Middlefield), 488


Pecousic Villa (Springfield), 366


Peck Homestead (Attleboro), 613


Pedrick House, Major (Marblehead), 277 Pelham, 549 Pelham, Peter, 118


Pemberton Mills (Lawrence), 251-52 Pembroke, 620


People's Institute, 303


People's Theater (Northampton), 113 Pepperell, 461


Perkins, Harley, 123


Perkins House, 272 (see Greene House)


Perkins Institution for the Blind, 141, 377-78 Perkins, Thomas H., 14I


Perley-Hale-Perkins House (Topsfield), 41I Perry House (New Bedford), 290


Perry Tavern (Dighton), 617


Peru, 533 Petersham, 601 Peter, Hugh, 4, 10I


Pettingell-Fowler House, 294 (see Historical society of Old Newbury)


Pheasant Farm State (Marshfield), 625 Pheasants, Chinese, 448 Phelps House (Andover), 491 Philharmonic Society, 115 Philip, 23 (see King Philip)


Phillips Academy, 83


Phillips Andover Academy, 491


Phillips Brooks Statue, 146


Phillips, Reverend George, 374-75


Phillips House (Storrowtown W. Springfield), 573


Phillips House, Adelaide (Marshfield), 625 Phillips Inn, 492


Phillips Mansion (N. Andover), 493


Phillips, Samuel, 491, 493


Phillips, Wendell, 71, 142, 163, 627


Phillips, William, Lieutenant-Governor (Phil- lipston), 451


Phillipston, 45I


Phipps (Spencer), 522


Photo-Engravers' Union, 78


Pickering House (Salem), 349


Pickman House, Dudley L., 84


Pickman-Shreve-Little House (Salem), 349


Piedmond Pond, 485 Pierce, Charles S., 106


Pierce, Rev. Cyrus, 257


Pierce-Johonnot-Nichols House, 84


Pierce-Nichols House (Salem), 350


Pierce, Captain William, 425


Pierian Sodality, 115


Pike-Haven Homestead (Framingham), 520


Pilgrim Hall (Plymouth), 24, 323


Pilgrim Maid, statue of, 325


Pilgrim Memorial Tablet (Wellfleet), 504


Pilgrim Monument (Provincetown), 320-21, 332


Pilgrim Mother Fountain (Plymouth), 324 Pilgrim Spring, 325, 507


Pilgrims' first landing at Provincetown, 327, 334 Pilgrims, origin and early wanderings, 30-31; in Plymouth, 320-2I


Pillar of Liberty (Dedham), 219-21


Pillsbury, Amos, 25I


Pinckney Street, 152


Pine Hill, Pelham, 550


Pine Island Lake, 528


Pine Tree Flag, 274


Pinkham, Lydia E., 269


Pioneers' Village (Salem), 79, 352 (see Park, Forest River)


Pipestave Hill (West Newbury), 516


Pitcher House, Moll, 277


Pittsfield, 97, 310-19


Plainfield, 568-69


Plainfield Pond, Savoy, 568


Plainville, 429


Plasket House, Tabitha (Plymouth). 323


Platts-Bradstreet House (Rowley), 416


Playhouse in the Hills, 530


Pleasant Point (South Wellfleet), 504


Plimpton Press (Norwood), 427


Plum Island, 416, 418


Plumb Collection of Antiques, 578


Plymouth, 22, 319-26


Plymouth Colony, Trading, 37, 323, 498 Plymouth Congregation, 10I Plymouth, Council at, 270 (see Charlestown)


Plymouth Rock, 324


Plymouth Wampum, 32I


Plympton, 535-38 Pocasset, 230 Point Allerton, 622 Police Strike, 73 (see Labor)


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Index


Policemen's Union, 73 Pollock, William, 596 Polyglot Bibles (Lunenburg), 449 Pomeroy Place, Old, 307 Pontiac's Rebellion, 39 Pontoosuc Woolen Mill, 576


Pool Mansion, 24I Poole, Elizabeth, 368 Popponesset Headland, 593 Porter House, Hadley, 527 Portuguese Holy Ghost Festival (Bridgewater), 589 Potato Club, IOI Potter, David, 535


Potter, E. Tuckerman, 18I


Potter House (Greenfield), 454


Potter House (West Springfield), 573


Potter Mountain Group, 576


Potter's Mountain (Lanesborough), 575 Powder Horn Hill, 207


Powder House (Amesbury), 507


Powder House (Dedham), 22I


Powder House (Harwich), 592 Powder House (Manchester), 422


Powder House (Somerville), 355-56 Pownall, Provincial Governor Thomas, 608 Powow River, 508


Pratt, Bela, 325


Pratt, Charles, 376 Pratt, Ephraim (Maynard), 446 Pratt House (Maynard), 446


Pratt House, Thomas, 207


Prattville, 616 Prescott, 550 Prescott, Samuel, 2II, 445


Prescott, Colonel William, statue of, Story's, 174, 463, 550 Prescott, William H., 104-06


Price, William, 80 Pride's Crossing, Village, 42I


Prince Hurd House, The (Eastham), 503 Princeton, 545 Proctor, Elizabeth, 242 Profile Rock (South Egremont), 583


Prospect Hill Tablet (Somerville), 354 Provincetown, 326-355


Provincetown Art Association, 123, 329 Provincetown Players, II3, 329


Provincetown-Plymouth Feud, 327 Pueblo of the Seven Fires (Springfield), 367 Puffer Place (Maynard), 446 Puffer, Reverend Reuben (Maynard), 446 Pulaski, Casimir, Memorial to, 303 Pulaski Monument (Chelsea), 208


Pullen Point, 342 Pullman-Standard Car Co., 401, 513 Pulpit Rock (Rowe), 456


Puritan, The, statue, Saint Gaudens' (Spring- field), 363 Putnam, Elijah (Gardner), 450 Putnam, General, 510 Putnam, General Rufus, site of birthplace of, 604 Putnam, Israel, birthplace of, 343, 431, 604 Putnam's Headquarters, site of (Cambridge), 204 Putnam House, James (Danvers), 431 Putnam House, Rufus, 602 Putney Family, 529


Pynchon, William, 359, 366 Pynchon Memorial Building, William (Spring- field), 363


Quabaug Indians, 523, 524


Quabaug River, 608 Quabbin Aqueduct, 526 Quabbin Reservoir, 526, 548 Quakers, 185-86, 344, 459; in Berkshires, 597; persecution of, 36, 139; punishment of, 6; Whipping Stone, 407


Qua-Pau-Kuk (see West Stockbridge)


Quarry Cave (Lanesborough), 575


Quebec Expedition, 293


Queen Anne's War, 223


Quequechan River, 23I


Quest of the Holy Grail, Abbey's murals in Boston Public Library, 121, 147


Quich's Hole, 554 Quinapoxet, 546 Quincy, 335-40


Quincy, Colonel John, 336


Quincy, Dorothy, 259


Quincy Granite, 336-37


Quincy House, Colonel Josiah, 337


Quincy, Josiah, 103, 337, 49I


Quincy Mansion, Dorothy, 340


Quincy Market, 84, 158


Rabbit's Pond (Andover), 492


Race Brook Falls, 583


Race Tracks, site of (Harwich), 592


Radcliffe, Ann, 188 (see Cambridge)


Radcliffe College, 88, 193-94; establishment of, 52; history, 188 Radical Club, 15I Radio Beacon (North Truro), 507 Radio Stations:


RCA Marine (South Orleans), 591; Westinghouse (Millis), 441; W O R L, 519 Rafe's Chasm, 243


Railroad, First Chartered in America, 587


Railroad Track, First in New England, 264


Railroads, investment in, 50


Railroads, Vermont and Massachusetts, 233 Railtree Hill (Carlisle), 435


Rainbow Cliff, 558 Rainbow Roof, 8I


Rake Shop Dam, 485 Ramshorn Pond (Millbury), 603 Rand, Thomas, 469


Randolph, 588


Randolph, Peyton, 588


Rattan Factory, first established, 490 Rattle Snake Gutter (Leverett), 57I


Raynham, 539 Read House (Cambridge), 192


Read, Nathan, 525 Reading, 490 Reading Inn, 490 Ready, George Washington, 33I Rebecca, the, 139


Rebellion, Shays's, 176 (see Brockton, Wor- cester)


Rebellion Tablet (Ipswich), 417


Recreational Facilities, Franklin Field, 170; Groton Inn Golf Club, 463; Pittsfield Country Club, 316 Red Bat Cave (New Ashford), 575


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Index


Red Cross (see American National Red Cross) Red Horse Tavern (Sudbury), 471 Red House, Old (Montague), 453 Red Jacket, the, 496 Red Lion Inn (Stockbridge), 578 Red Mill (E. Windsor), 530


Red Mill (Sheffield), 580


Redemption Rock, 545 Redstone Schoolhouse (Sudbury), 47I Reed and Barton, 369


Reed House (Winthrop), 425


Reed, Jesse, 626-27


Reed, Samuel, 23I


Reed, Samuel Nathan, 430


Reed, Simeon, 390


Reformers, 48


Regal Shoe Company (Whitman), 628 Regicides, 527 (see Whalley and Goffe) Regis College for Women, 469 Rehoboth, 539-40


Reid, Robert, 365


Religion, 54 (see Pilgrims and Names of the several Denominations)


Religious Festivals, 598 Religious Persecution, 139


Religious Reformers, 54


Remains of First Transatlantic Wireless Station in U.S. (South Wellfleet), 504


Renaissance influences in Massachusetts, 84 (see Architecture)


Renfrew, 596


Republican Party, 49 Reservations:


Blue Hill, 587; Breakheart, 412; Fort Banks (Government), 425; Greylock, 584-85; Hart's Hill, Wakefield, 491; Malden State, 435; Middlesex Fells, 489; Monument Mountain, 578; Mt. Hood, 490; Squaw Sachem, 465; Stony Brook, 171; Wakesaw, 491; Winnikenni, 247 Restoration and the Fine Arts, IIO


Revere Markers, Paul (Medford), 283


Revere, Paul, 140, 187, 259, 34I, 343, 614; apprenticeship of, 628; as silversmith, 42,


II9; captured (Lincoln), 445; goldsmith shop, site of, 157 Revere's House, Paul (Boston), 158-59


Revolutionary Monument (Arlington), 13I


Revolutionary Tavern (Ayer), 448 Revolutionary War, 274


Revolutionary War Barracks, site of, 602


Rhena's Cave (Searsville), 529


Rhines, Judy, 243


Rhode Island Reds, 522


Rice, Captain Moses (Charlemont), 456


Rice House (Charlemont), 456 (see Warner, Charles P.)


Richardson, Henry Hobson, 85-86, 146, 149, 271, 363-65, 390 (see Architecture)


Richardson, Ichabod, 389 Richardson, Josiah, 390 Richardson, Moses, 451


Richardsonian Romanesque, 271-72 (see Library, Malden Public; Architecture) Richmond, 581


Richmond Boulder Trains, Geologic Phenom- ena (Richmond), 580 Richmond Furnace, 58I Riedesel, General, 478


Riedesel House (Cambridge), 202 Rifle Range, State (Reading), 490 Riggers, 236


Rimmer, William, 149 Rindge Technical High School (Cambridge), 88


River Bend Tavern (Williamstown), 387


River, Mystic, 27I


Riverside (Gill), 453


Riverside Press, 188


Riverside Village, 300


Roaring Brook, 559


Roaring Brook (New Lenox), 576


Roaring Brook (Sunderland), 570


Roaring Thunder, 478


Robbins House, Oliver, 469


Robbins Memorial Library (see Library)


Roberts Co., G. G., 628


Robinson Hall, 197 (see Harvard Collections)


Robinson House, 367


Robinson, Isaac, 594


Rochester, 499 Rock House, 525


Rock Ledge, 486


Rock with Hoof Prints (Easton Center), 616 Rocking Horse (Winchendon), 540


Rocking Stone, 601


Rockland, 627


Rockport, 236-37


Rockport Art Association, 241 '


Rocks Bridge (W. Newbury), 517


Rocky Neck, 240


Rocky Woods (East Freetown), 613


Rogers, Rev. Daniel (Littleton), 447


Rogers, Ezekiel, 4II


Rogers Hall, 85 Rogers Hall (Lowell), 263


Rogers, John, 122, 592


Rogers Manse (Ipswich), 417


Rogers, Samuel, 629


Rogers Silverware Co., 369


Rolling Rock, 232


Rollstone Rock, 234


Root, George F., 432


Ropes, Judge Nathaniel, 347 (see Ropes Memorial)


Ropes Memorial, 347


Rose Dorothea, the, 333


Rose of Sharon, the, 448


Rotch, Joseph, 285


Rotch Market, 562


Rote Singing, II3


Round Meadow Pond, 449


Rounds Rock, 584


Rowe, 456 Rowe, John, 456


Rowe's Wharf, 16I


Rowlandson, Mary, 515


Rowlandson Rock (Lancaster), 515


Rowley, 416-17


Rowley Common, 416


Rowlstone, John, 542


Roxbury Latin School, 171


Royal House, 81


Royal, Isaac (Royalston), 452


Royall House (Medford), 283-84


Royalston, 451-52 Royce, Josiah, 106 Rudduck House, 455 Rum Manufacturer, 292


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Index


Rumford Birthplace (Woburn), 392; statue of, 390 Rumford Roasters, 392 Rumney Marsh, 34I Rum-running, 328 Rundge Turkey Farm, 310 Russell, 479


Russell, E. Harbro, 400


Russell House, Hadley site of, 527 Russell House, Jason (Arlington), 134 Russell House, Jonathan (Mendon), 439


Russell, Jason, 134


Russell, Rev. John, 526-27 Russell, Joseph, 285 Rutland, 602-03 Ryder, 492 Ryder, Albert Pinkham, 12I


Sabbath Laws, 608 Sabbatier Collection, 147


Sacco and Vanzetti, 145, 219, 587


Sacco, Niccola, 76 Sachem's Rock (East Bridgewater), 629 Sacrament Rock (Barnstable), 497 Saddle Ball Mountain, 585


Saga of Eric the Red, 468


Sagamore, 498 Sage Hall (see Wellesley College) Sage's Ravine, 535 Sage's Ravine Brook, 584 Sailors, St. Mary's House for, 175 Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 122 (see Art)


St. Hyacinthe's Seminary (Belchertown), 550 St. John's Preparatory School (Danvers), 43I St. Joseph's Juniorate, 422-23, 467


St. Joseph's Memorial Chapel (see Holy Cross College) Saint Paul's Cathedral, 84 St. Thérèse of Liesieux, convent of, 434 Salem, 32, 343-52 Salem Athenaeum, 421 Salem, Peter, 520, 522


Salem Street, 159 (see Boston) Salem, Town Hall, Old, 347 Salisbury, 407 Salisbury Beach, 410 Salisbury Laboratories, 9 (see Worcester) Salmon Falls (Shelburne), 455 1


Salt and Pepper to Suit Taste, 294 Salt Box, described, 81 (see Architecture) Salt-Box House (Fiskdale), 475 Salt Island, 240 Salter's Point (Beverly), 421 Saltonstall, Sir Richard, 374-75 Saltonstall Statue (Watertown), 378 Saltus, Bishop N., 361 Samaritan House (Andover), 493 Samoset, 22 Sampson, C. T., 69 Sampson, Deborah (Plympton), 535-38, 546, 615; House of, 535 Samuel Cook House, 84 Sand Springs (Williamstown), 387 Sanderson Academy (Ashfield), 569 Sanderson Brook Falls, 480 Sanderson, Robert, 119 Sandham, Henry, 260 Sandwich, 497; Gloss, 497 Sandy Bay Yacht Club, 24I


Sandy Neck (West Barnstable), 497 Santayana, George, 106 Santuit Pond, 594 Sargent, Henry, 323 Sargent, John Singer, murals in Boston Public Library, 121, 123


Sargent-Murray-Gilman House, 237


Sargent School of Physical Education, 148


Sassamon (Lakeville), 23, 538-39


Saturday Club, 104


Saugus, 413 Savory House (Groveland), 517 Savoy, 568


Sawin Memorial Bldg. (Dover), 441


Sawtell, Obadiah (Ayer), 448


Sawyer Home (Merrimac), 509


Sawyer House (Medford), 284


Sawyer (Mary) House (Sterling), 542


Sayre, Mrs. Francis, 194


Scales House, Laura, 304


Scargo Hill (Dennis), 496 Scarlet Letter, the, 97, 352 (see Hawthorne)


Schell Chateau, 307


Schofield, Arthur, 312


School for Boys (Middlesex), 217


School of Philosophy (see Hillside Chapel)


School System, Nucleus of Present, 27I


Schooners, Multimasted, 369 (see Taunton)


Schouler, James, 13I


Schurr, Burlingham, 249


Schuyler, Montgomery, 87


Science, leading men of, 53


Scituate, 624


Scotch Boardman House (Lynnfield), 412


Scott, Sir Gilbert, 85


Scott's Bridge, remains of, 477


Scoutland, 440


Scruggs-Rayment House (North Beverly), 420


Sculptors of Massachusetts, 12I-23


Scurvy, Pilgrims affected by, 320


Sea Serpents, 33I Seamen's Bethel (New Bedford), 289


Sears, Clara Endicott, 512-13


Sears, Edmund H., 600


Sears, Rev. Edmund Hamilton, 469


Sears' Folly, 496


Sears House (Second Harrison Gray Otis House), 83, 15I


Searsville, 529


Sedgwick, Catherine Maria, 577


Sedgwick House, 15I


Seekonk, 502


Segreganset, legend of, 617


Seminary of Our Lady of the Holy Cross (North Easton), 616


Senate, 62 Sengekontacket Pond, 556


Sentinel Elm, site of (Royalston), 452


Separatists, 30


Sergeant, John, 578


Sessions House, 304


Seton, Ernest Thompson, 367 Seven Gables, House of the (Salem), 351 (see Hawthorne, Nathaniel), Seven Sisters, 551 (see Mt. Holyoke)


Seven Years' War, 38 Sever Hall, 86, 197 (see Harvard College)


Sever House (Kingston), 62I Sewage, Disposal of, 177


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Index


Shadowbrook (Lenox), 483, 577 Shady Hill (Cambridge), 203 Shaker Art Workshops, 122 Shaker Mill Pond (Richmond), 581 Shakers, 448, 481, 483, 512, 514, 574


Shakespeare, early performances in Boston, II2


Shannon House, 297-98


Sharon, 615 Sharp, Dallas Lore, 17


Shattuck, Captain Job, 462


Shattuck, Joseph, 253


Shaw, Colonel Robert Gould, 142, 286


Shaw, Henry Wheeler, birthplace, 576 Shaw Memorial, Robert Gould, 153


Shaw Pond, 481, 599


Shawme State Forest Reservation (Sandwich), 498 Shawn, Ted, 48I Shawsheen (Andover), 493


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Shay, Frank, 330


Shays, Daniel, 312, 363, 473, 460, 549, 552; birthplace, 437; home, 549; encampment site, 549; rebellion, 44, 21I, 219, 256, 302, 369-70, 394, 479, 482, 525, 602


Shedd House (Abington), 627


Shedd, Prudence, 447


Sheffield, 580


Sheffield Plain, 579-80


Shelburne, 454-55


Shelburne Falls (Shelburne and Buckland), 454 Shelburne Summit, observation tower, 454


Sheldon, Asa G., 433


Sheldon Homestead (Deerfield), 226


Sheldon House (Wilmington), 433


Sheldon, William, 566


Shepard House, Mary, site of (Acton), 447


Shepard, Mary, 447


Shepard, Reverend Thomas, 185


Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge, 86 (see Archi- tecture) Sherborn, 437 Ship Anne Memorial, 325


Shippee, Amasa and Rhoda, 455 Ship's Howitzers (Hanover), 619


Shires organized, 61 (see Government) Shirley, 448


Shirley-Eustis House, 170


Shirley, Governor William, 170, 448


Shoe and Allied Craftsmen, organization of, 178 Shoe Company, Boston Rubber, 273 (see Con- verse, Elisha Slade)


Shoe Factory and Club, The Walk-Over, 178 Shoe Manufacturing (Marblehead), 274 Shoe Workers, 177-78, 245


Brotherhood of Shoe and Allied Crafts- men, 178; Organization of, 177; Protec- tive Union, 245; Strikes, 177-78 Sholom, meaning of, 344 (see Salem) Shoot Flying Hill (Barnstable), 497 Short House (Newbury), 416 Shrewsbury, 473 Shrine of St. Anne (Fiskdale), 475 Shumway House (Fiskdale), 475 Shurtleff, Robert (see Deborah Sampson) Shutesbury, 549 Siasconset, 562 Sibley Dairy Farms (Spencer), 522 Sibley Mansion, 522


Sidney, Margaret, 213, 216


Siege of Boston, 207 Simmons College, 52, 166 Simmons, Edward, 363 Simon Pond, 600


Simonds Saw and Steel Company, 235 Skiing:


Beartown Mountain, 482; Bosquet Ski


Run, 318; Brody Mt. Ski Trails, 575; East Mountain State Forest, 486; New Ashford, 575; New England Hill, 600; Notch Road, 585; Novice (Warwick), 464; Professional (Warwick), 464; Ski Slalom, 457; Thunderbolt Run, 585, 597


Skinner, Belle Collection, musical instruments, (Holyoke), 249


Skinner Home (Holyoke), 249


Skinner Silk Company (Holyoke), 248


Skully-Jo, 33I Sky Farm Site (South Egremont), 583


Sky Line Trail, 318, 487, 574


Slack House (Plainville), 429


Slack House (Wellesley), 382


Slade Spice Mill, 342


Slater, Samuel, 543


Slave Pens, 243


Slave Trade, 38


Slavery, Colonial, 34 Attitude toward Garrison, 176; Mass. op- poses, 48


Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, 435 (see also Burial Grounds)


Smibert, John, 82, 118, 157 (see Art)


Smith and Walker, 279


'Smith Charities,' 564


Smith College, 52, 302-03


Smith, Deacon Philip, 526


Smith House (Newton), 298


Smith, John, 22, 623


Smith, Jonathan (Lanesborough), 575




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