Massachusetts : a guide to its places and people, Part 77

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Publication date: 1937
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company
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Smith, Joseph, 4II Smith, Oliver, 564


Smith Paper Company (Lee), 482


Smith, Sophia, 302


Smith, Sophia, Homestead of (Hatfield), 564


Smith Tablet, John, 623


Smith, Zilphia, 464


Smith's Ferry (Northampton), 565


Smuggling, at Provincetown, 328


Snake Hill, 447 Snake House (Goshen), 529


Snell Manufacturing Company, 475


Snow Shoe Trail (Warwick), 464 Soapstone Bowls, Indian, 363


Social Centers Council (East Boston), 175 Social Classes, 2I


Social Legislation, 8 Societies, Historical:


American Antiquarian (Worcester), 53, 103, 400, art objects in, 118; Antiquarian (Plymouth), 325; Arlington Historical, 134; Ashland Historical, 436; Brookline Historical, 182; Danvers Historical Head- quarters, 431; Dedham Historical, 218; Dover Historical, 441; Fall River His- torical, 231-32; Falmouth Historical, 594; Fitchburg Historical, 234; Framingham Historical and Natural History, 520; Haverhill Historical, 246; Hingham His-


569


Index


Societies, Historical:


torical, 622; Lexington Historical, 259; Lynn Historical, 268; Massachusetts Historical (Boston), 53, 167; Medfield Historical, 441; Medway Historical, 442; Mendon Historical Society, Building, 439; Milton Historical, 586; Natick Historical (South Natick), 519; Newbury, Historical Society of Old, 294; New England His- torical and Genealogical, 136; Northamp- ton Historical, 303; North Attleboro His- torical, 415; Norwood Historical, 426; Old Colony Historical Society, 370; Rama- poguc Historical, 478; Rowley Historical, 416; Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (Boston), 417; Wey- mouth Historical, 385; Worcester Histori- cal, 397; Worcester Horticultural, 396; Worcester Natural History Society, 397 Society of Christian Socialists, 54 (see History) Society of Independent Artists (Boston), 124 Sociology, Leaders in, 54 Sodom Mountain, 552


Soldiers' Home (Chelsea), 208 Somerset, 617-18 Somerville, 353-56 Sons of Liberty, 219-21


South Canal (Lawrence), 254


South Chelmsford, 5II


South Common (Lowell), 263


South Deerfield, 564, 570


South Egremont, 582-83


South Gardner, 450


South Hadley, 356-58


South Hadley Falls, 356-57


South Harwich, 592


South Lee, 482


South Lynnfield, 412


South Mountain, 316 South Mountain, Music Colony in (Pittsfield), 576 South Natick, 519 South Shore, 319 South Shore Nature Club, 623


South Shore Players, 623


South Truro, 505


South Walpole, 414 South Wellfleet, 504


South Williamstown, 574


South Worthington, 532


South Worthington Cascade, 532 South Yarmouth, 592


Southampton, 572


Southborough, 520-21 Southbridge, 475 Southfield, 486 Southwick, 552 Southworth, Constant, 629 Sovereign of the Seas, the, 14I Spalding, Joseph, 510 Spanish War Monument (Somerville), 354 Sparks, Jared, 106 Sparrow House, Richard (Plymouth), 324 Spaulding, Colonel Simeon, 5II Spaulding Company, A. G., 208


Spaulding Homestead, Reverend Sampson (Tewksbury), 466


Spaulding House (Chelmsford), 511; Spauld- ing, Simeon, 5II


Spaulding House (Lowell), 265


Spaulding's Grist Mill (Townsend Harbor), 461 Speer, Elliot, 307 Spelman Seminary, 549


Spencer, 522-23


Spencer, the, 503 Sphinx, The Weymouth, 385


Spicket River Bridge (Methuen), 493


Spiller House (Hazen Garrison House)


(Haverhill), 246


Spindle City (Lowell), 263


Spindle Hill (Bolton), 513


Spindler, the, wreck of, 335 'Spite-fence,' 514 (see Lancaster)


Spooner, Joshua, grave of and epitaph, 524


Spot Pond, 489 Sprague, Francis, 625


Sprague, Ralph, 227


Springfield, 359-67


Springfield College, 366-67


Springfield Municipal Group, 362


Springfield Republican, 360, 550


Springville (Winchendon), 547


Spruce Corner (Ashfield), 569


Spruce Hill, 12 Spy Pond, 13I


Squanto, Interpreter, 22


Squaw Hollow, 613


Squaw Peak, 578


Squaw Rock, 337


Stage Coach Tavern (North Reading), 432


Stagecoaches, Boston to Plymouth, 32I Stamp Act, 39-40 (see History)


Standish House, Alexander (Duxbury), 626


Standish, Lora and Mary Miles, graves of, 626


Standish, Miles, 176, 321, 324, 501, 625, 629; monument, 626


Stanley, William, 317


Starr, Grant (Ashburnham), 540


Starr, Dr. Thomas, heirs of, 540


Starret, Leroy S. (Athol), 45I


State Agricultural Experiment Station, 127


State Bureau of Labor Statistics, 70


State Colony (Gardner), 450


State Employment Relief, 4


State Federation of Labor, 78


State Fish Hatchery (West Barnstable), 497


State Forests, 7, 498


State Game Farm, 448, 477


State House, 82, 153


State Picnic Grounds (Warwick), 464


State Proving Grounds (Wendell), 452


State Rifle Range (Shrewsbury), 473


State Teachers College (Westfield), 235, 479; Worcester, 400


Steam Jack, 218 Stearns House (Bedford), 434


Stebbins House, Joseph (Deerfield), 225


Stebbins Mansion (Chicopee), 210


Steele, Fletcher, 578


Steele, Wilbur Daniel, 330


Steerage Rock, 476 Sterling, 541-42 Stetson House, Samuel (Hanover), 619


Stetson House, Sargent S. (Norwell), 619


Stetson Shoe Company, 383 Steven Linen Mills, 544


Steven's Glen (Richmond), 581 Steward, Ira, 65, 70


670


Index


Stockbridge, 577-78 Stockbridge Bowl, 577 Stockbridge Mansion, site of (Scituate), 624 Stockbridge Mission, 20 Stockbridge Mission House, 578 Stockbridge Pond (Scituate), 624 Stockbridge School of Drama, 577


Stoddard, J. C., 393-94 Stoldt, Herman, 367 Stone Bird Sanctuary, 519 Stone Cave (Upton), 610


Stone Fleet, the, 286


Stone Homestead, Stephen (Ayer), 448


Stone House (Belchertown), 550 Stone House (Salem), 349 Stone House Hill, 178


Stone Post, 447 Stone Sloops, 236


Stone Temple (Quincy), 84, 340


Stone Tower (North Truro), 507


Stone-Tower Clock (Wellesley Hills), 519


Stone Walls, Winslow Farms (Leicester), 522 Stone Workers, 236


Stoneham, 487-90


Stoneville (Auburn), 543


Stony Brook, 52I Stony Ledge, 585


Storrow, Charles S., 251


Storrowtown, 573


Storrs Parsonage (Longmeadow), 566


Story, William Wetmore, 169, 174 Stoughton, 615


Stoughton Hall, 196 (see Harvard College)


Stoughton, Colonel Israel, 615


Stoughton Musical Society, 115, 615


Stoughton Town Hall, 615


Stoughton, William, 4, 615


Stow, 514 Stow, John, 514 (see Stow)


Stowe, Calvin, 519


Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 108, 436, 492, 493, 519; grave of, 492


Stowe House (Andover), 492


Stowe House (South Natick), 519


Strange Interlude, 144 Strathmore Paper Co., 479


Stratton, Daniel, 472


Straus Hall, 198 (see Harvard College)


Strawberry Festival (Belmont), 444 Strawberry Hill (Plymouth), 22 Street Railway, Electric (Brockton), 177 Strikes, 67


Brockton, 177-78; of 1912, Textile, Law- rence, 252; of 1867, Lynn, 267 Strong House (Amherst), 130 Stuart, Gilbert, characteristics and work, 119 Stuart, Silas, 542


Student Volunteer Movement, 306 Sturbridge, 474 Sturdy, W. A., 309 Sturgis, John, 85 Sturgis, Katherine, 123


Sturgis, R. Clipston, 134, 18I


Sturtevant Home, 535 (Carver) Submarine S-4, wreck of, 334 Succanessett, 594 Sudbury, 470-71 Sudbury Reservoir, 520 Suffolk Resolves, 41, 219, 524, 586


Sugar Act, 39, 40 (see History) Sugar House, Old (Savoy), 568 Sullivan, James, 6 Sullivan, Louis Henry, 87 Sulpher Spring (Pelham), 550 Summer White House, of Pres. Cleveland (Bourne), 591 Summerton House (Acushnet), 614 Summit House, 483


Sumner, Charles, 627; grave of, Cambridge, 202; statue of, Boston, 163


Sumner House, 294


Sumner Tunnel, 175, 425


Sumner, General William H., 175 Sunderland, 570


Sunset Hill, 593 Surge Chamber (Granville), 553


Surriage, Agner, 436 Suspension Bridge (Montague), 453 Sutton, 604


Swallow's Cave (Nahant), 424 Swampfield (Sunderland), 570 Swampscott, 423-24


Swan's Tavern, 615


Swansea, 50I


Sweating Pits (Framingham), 520


Swett-Ilsley House (Newburyport), 415 Swift, Clement Rye, 613


Swift River, 530


Swimming Pool (Weston), 469


Sylpho-Nathol, 208


Symphony, 164


Symphony Hall, 164


Tabor Academy (Marion), 499


Taconic Mountains, II


Taconic Trail, 389


Taconic Trail (North Adams), 460


Taft House (Austin), 439


Taft Tavern (North Uxbridge), 605


Taft, William Howard, Memorial Bridge, 627


Taft's Inn (Winthrop), 425


Takwambait, grave of, 519


Talcott, Major, 579


Tantamous, 520


Tantiusque Lead Mine, site of, 475


Tarbell, Edward, 123


Tarpaulin Cove, 555


Tashmoo Lake, 559


Tattooing, 20


Taunton, 367-70 Taunton Locomotive Co., 369


Tavern, Old (Marblehead), 278


Tavern, the Old (Rockport), 241


Tavern, the West Townsend, 460-61


Tax Rebatements, 177


Taxation, edict of 1687, 418


Taxing Power, 58-59


Tea Act, 40-41 (see History)


Tea Rock Hill (Marshfield), 625


Teachers' College (Framingham), 520


Teachers' Oath Bill, 145


Technology, Massachusetts Institute of (Cam- bridge), 204 Telegraph, the, 504


Telephone Trail, 463 Temperance, 627 Templeton, 45I Templeton Improvement Society, 451


671


Index


Ten Acre, Girls' School (Wellesley), 380 Ten Hills Farm, site of, 355 Ten Pound Island, 239 Tenney Castle, 494 Tenney Hall (Haverhill), 246 Tercentenary Celebration, 145 (see Boston) Tewksbury, 466-67


Textile Industry (Lawrence), 250-54; (Worces- ter), 394-95 Textile Labor Difficulties, 286 Textile Plant (Tillotson), 312 Textiles, leading centers, 50


Textiles (North Adams), 459


Thacher House (Yarmouth), 496


Thatcher Family, 627


Thatcher, Oxenbridge, 103


Thatcher's Island, 240


Thaxter, Celia, 297-376; House (Watertown), 378


Thaxter, Levi Lincoln, 297


Thaxter, Samuel, 622


Thayer, Abbott H., 12I Thayer, Abigail, 533


Thayer Academy (Braintree), 587


Thayer, Asa, 610


Thayer, Colonel John E., 71, 515 Thayer, Davis, 610


Thayer, Elisha, 219, 395


Thayer House (Braintree), 587


Thayer House (Dedham), 218-19


Thayer House (Holbrook), 588


Tháyer, Judge Webster, 219 (see Dedham; Sacco and Vanzetti)


Thayer, Levi, grave of, 588


Thayer, Samuel J., 494 Thayer, Sylvanus, 587


Theater, 110-13


Theater, in Boston, 112, 114


Theater, Gloucester School of, 240


Theater, Haymarket, 112


Theaters (see Boston Museum, Boston Thea- ter, Haymarket Theater, People's Theater; Theater and Music)


Theaters, Puppet (Dartmouth), 501 Theocracy, 91 Thiel Farm, 597 Thomas, Ichabod, birthplace of (Pembroke), 620


Thomas, Isaiah, 103, 394, 518, 524


Thomas, Robert Bailey, 542 Thompson, Benjamin, 390 Thompson, David, 31 Thompson, or Eveleth, House (Maynard), 446 Thompson Memorial Chapel, 388 (see Wil- liams College) Thomson, Elihu, 270 Thoreau-Alcott House, 215


Thoreau, Henry David, 17, 90, 93, 101, 104, 213, 503 Thoreau's Cabin, site of, 455 Three-Mile Hill, 485 Three-Mountain Corner, 603 Ticknor and Fields, 104, 155 Ticonderoga, 42 Tiffany, Louis, 363 Tillyer, Dr. Edgar, 475 Tilton and Githers, 363 Tilton, Edward L., 363 Tipping Rock, 486


Titan's Piazza, 358


Tituba, 344-45 Tobey Tower (Dennis), 496


Tolland, 553


Toll Gate House, the Old, 484


Toll House, Old, 385


Toll House (Whitman), 628


Tom Ball Mountain (Alford), 581


Tom Crosby's Tavern (Eastham), 503


Tompson, Benjamin, 102


Topsfield, 4II Topsfield Fair Grounds, 412


Tory Cave (New Lenox), 576


Tory House, Old (Littleton), 447


Tory Merchants (Marblehead), 274


Tory Row, 186


Tourjee, Eben, 116


Toussaint L'Ouverture, 618


Tower Mountain, 574


Towle Company Factory, 295


Town Cove, 138


Town Fish House (Swampscott), 424


Town Hall (Arlington), 134; (Provincetown), 332; (Weymouth), 384


Town House (Dover), 440


Town House, Old, Historic (Heath), 456


Town House (Stoneham), 489


Town Landing (Orleans), 495


Town Meeting Day (Peru), 533


Town Meetings, 35; representative form of, 60 Town Post (Kingston), 621


Town Pound (Pembroke), 620; (Westwood), 439


Town Wharf (Ipswich), 418


Town Wharf (Provincetown), 332 Townsend, 461 Townsend Acts, 40 (see History)


Townsend Harbor, 461


Townsend House (Needham), 518


Toy Town (Winchendon), 540


Tracy House, 293


Tracy, Nathaniel, 293


Tracy, Patrick, 293


Trades Assemblies, 70


Trade Unionism, 51; A. F. of L., 268


Trade Unions, Electrical Industry Employees Union, 268; Haverhill, 245; National Shoe Workers Association, 268; organization of, 177; United Shoe and Leather Workers Union, 268


Trading Post (Westwood), 440


Trails, Capes to the Berkshires Bridle Trail, 546-47; Money Brook Trail, 388


Trail, The, Scenic, North Adams, 459


Train, Arthur, 469


Training Field (W. Newbury), 517


Trans-Atlantic Cable Station (Marshfield), 625 Transcendentalism, 94-95, 97, 213 (see Emer- son, Literature)


Transcendentalists, 17I


Transcendental Club, The, 100, 188


Trap's Falls, 460


Trask House (Manchester), 422


Trawlers, 236 Treadwell Farm, 522 Treasure Room, 196 (see Harvard College)


Treaty of Pilgrims with Massachusetts, 22 Tremont Nail Factory (Wareham), 499


672


Index


Triangular Trade, 38 (see History) Trimountain, 138 (see Boston) Troy's Baseball Field, 581 Truck Gardening (Arlington), 131 Trumble Brook, 553 Trumbull Mansion (Worcester), 401 Truro, 505-06


Trutas, 330 Tryon Art Gallery, 304 Tryon, Dwight W., 304


Tubercular Children's Hospital, 279 Tucker House (Milton), 586


Tudor, Frederick, 424 Tufts College, 280-83


Tufts House, Peter (Medford), 284 Tufts House (Monson), 608


Tufts House, Oliver (Somerville), 355 Tufts, James, 608


Tufts, John, 114


Tunxis Club (Tolland), 553


Turner, Captain (Gill), 453


Turner, Frederick Jackson, cited, 65


Turner's Falls (Montague), 453


Turnpike (Arlington), 13I


Twain, Mark, 482 Twelve, Robert, 155


Twin Cascades (Florida), 457 Twin Elm Trees, Siamese, 514 Twin Firs (Mt. Washington), 583 Twin Lights, Towers of, 240


T Wharf, 160


Two Brothers Boulders, 434 Tyng House, Jonathan (Tewksbury), 467 Tyng's Island, 467 Tyngsborough Bridge, 467 Tyngsborough, 467 Tyringham, 482


Uncataquisset, 586 Umpachenes Falls, 486


Uncle Tom's Cabin, 105, 106, 177, 492


Underground Railroad, 48, 209, 232, 286, 307, 470


Union Church Village (Mt. Washington), 583 Union Oyster House, 158 Unitarianism, 47, 93, 219


United Co-operative Society (Maynard), 446 United Fruit Company, 505


United Shoe Machinery Corporation (North Beverly), 421, 430, 465, 628


United Shoe and Leather Workers Union, 75 United Shoe Workers of America, 74 United States Custom House, 84 United States Envelope Company, 361, 396 U.S. League of Gileadites, 361


United States Post Office, U.S. Post Office Building, 156 United Textile Workers, 51, 72 Universalism, Founder of, 237 University Extension Division, 53 Upjohn, Richard, 370 Upper Goose Pond, 481 Upper Spectacle Pond, 485 Upton, 609-10 Uxbridge, 605


Vacation Farm for Horses, 494 Valentine Tavern, 437 Van Deusenville, 582


Van Norman Tool and Machine Company, 361 Van Rensselaer, Stephen, 388 Van Schaack, Henry, 316


Vane, Sir Henry, 110, 34I Vanzetti, Bartolomao, 76 Variety Show, 112


Varnum, Samuel, 510 Vassall, Major John, 192, 193


Vassal-Adams Mansion, 339


Veazie, Samuel, 623


Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad, 233


Vikings (see Norsemen), 333


Village Smithy, The site of (Cambridge), 192 Vinegar Bible, 234


Vineyard Haven, 559


Virgiliana, Forbes Collection of, 492


Vorse, Mary Heaton, 330


Vose House (Milton), 586


Waban, 300 Waban Natic, 25


Wachusett Pond, 545


Wachusett Reservoir, 515


Wading Place (Middleborough), 538


Wadsworth House (Third Harrison Gray Otis House, Boston), 152-53


Wadsworth House (Cambridge), 83


Wadsworth Monument, 470


Wahconah Falls, 53I


Waite, Benjamin, 564


Waitt's Mount, 270, 272


Wakefield, 490


Wakefield, Cyrus, 490


Walden Pond, 213


Wales, 476


Wales, John Lawrence, 476


Walford, Thomas, 31


Walker and Pratt Company, 375


Wallingford, Ezekiel (Royalston), 452


Wallpaper, 431


Walpole, 427


Walpole Woodworkers, 428


Waltham, 370-73 Walter E. Fernald School, 372


Waltham Watch Company, 373


Walton League, Izaak, 316


Walton Wild Acres Sanctuary, 47-49, 316


Wamesit Praying Town Inhabitants, expelled, 26


Wampanoags, 19, 22 Wampatuck, Sachem, 587


Wamsutta, 23 Wamsutta Mills (New Bedford), 286


Wanderer, The, 499


Wannalancit Park, 265


Waquoit Village, 594


War Memorial Auditoriums (Worcester), 397


War of 1812, 45, 241, 274, 594


War, Revolutionary, 176


Ward, Artemus, 42, 401, 543


Ward, Edward, 6


Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, 49I


Ward Homestead, Artemas (Shrewsbury), 473


Ward House, Artemas (Weston), 469 Ward House, John (Salem), 346-47 Old Cobbler's Shop, 347


Cent Shop, 347 Weaving Room, 347 Ward, Nathaniel, 101, 139, 417


673


Index


Ward, Rev. John, 244 Ware, 525, 607 Ware Center, 525-26 Ware House (Wellesley), 382 Ware, William R., 85 Wareham, 499 Warner, Arthur, 529 Warner, Charles Dudley, birthplace of, 456, 569 Warner House (Charlemont), 449, 456 (see Warner, Charles D.)


Warner House, Underground Railway Station (Fitchburg), 449


Warner Memorial Theater (see Worcester Academy)


Warner Mountain, 534-35 Warner, Olin L., 449 Warren, 524-25


Warren, General Joseph, 173, 256, 524


Warren, General Joseph, 173; statue of Bart- lett's, 173; anecdotes of, 377


Warren, Josiah, 5, 7I


Warren, Mercy Otis, 104


Warren, Russell, 290


Warren Telechron Company, 436


Warwick, 463-64 Washburn House (Bridgewater), 589 Washburn Shops (see Worcester) Washington, 599


Washington Elm, the, site of (Cambridge), 194 Washington, George, 42, 119, 122, 182, 260, 274, 524, 599, 605 Washington, Martha, 193


Washington Memorial Gateway, George (Cam- bridge), 195


Washington Square (Salem), 350


Washington Station, 598 Watatic Mt., 460, 546


Watatic Pond, 460


Watch-Tower, site of (Plymouth), 324 Water Cracker Factory (Milton), 587 Water Power, abundance, 46


Water Stand Pipe (Arlington), 135 Waterfront, 239


Waters House, David P. (Salem), 84 Waters Mansion (Millbury), 604 'Watershops' (Springfield), 366 Watertown, 374-78 Watson Company (Attleboro), 613


Watson, Elkanan, 312-13 Waugh, Frederick, 329 Waverly Oaks, 444 Wayland, 435, 469-70


Wayland, Francis, 469


Wayside, 216 Wayside Inn, 47I Wayside Museums, Inc., 512 Wealth and Progress, 70 Weapons, 2I Weaving Room (Salem), 347 Webb-Adams House (Charlestown), 174 Webb, Captain, 538 Weber Duck Inn, 428


Webster, 544


Webster, Daniel, grave of, 625; courtship of Grace Fletcher, 512, 627 Webster House, Daniel, site of (Marshfield), 625 Webster Inn, Daniel (Sandwich), 498 Webster, John, 526


Webster, Mary, 526


Webster, Noah, 103; dictionary, 524 Weeping Willow Rock (Milton), 587 Weinrich, Agnes, 123 Weir, Robert F., 323


Weir Stove Company, 369 Weld Boat House (Cambridge), 444


Welles House (Wellesley), 381


Welles, Samuel, 379


Wellesley, 379-82


Wellesley Buttonwood Tree, 381


Wellesley College, 52, 379-81


Wellesley Hills, 519


Wellfleet, 504-05


Wellington House, site of, Roger (Belmont), 444 Wellington, Jeduthan, 445 Wellington Tablet, the, 260


Well's Tavern, 316-17


Wendell, 452


Wendell, Barrett, 107


Wendell, Judge Oliver, 452


Wenham, 420-2I


Wentworth Institute, 165


Wessagusett, William Blackstone in, 89


Wesson, Peg, 243


West Barnstable, 497


West, Benjamin, 120


West Boylston, 542


West Bridgewater, 589


West Brookfield, 524


West Chesterfield, 532


West College, Williams College, 388


West Cummington, 530


West Granville, 553


West Harwich, 593


West Hoosac Blockhouse, site of (Williams- town), 387


West Indies Trade, 38, 345


West New Boston, 600


West Newbury, 516-17


West, Newton, 300


West Orange, 463


West Otis, 485


West Springfield, 478


West Stockbridge, 581


West Stockbridge Center (West Stockbridge), 58I


West Tisbury, 557


West Townsend, 460-61


West Upton, 609


West Worthington (Worthington), 533


West Worthington Falls (Worthington), 533


West Yarmouth, 593


Westborough, 52I


Westfield, 479


Westfield Athenaeum, 479


Westford, 511-12


Westhampton, 527-28


Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing


Company, 361


Westminster, 449-50 Weston, 469


Weston College, 469


Weston, Isaiah, 53I Weston, Thomas, 3I Westport, 50I


Westport Mills, 501 Westwood, 440, 441


674


Index


Weymouth, 31, 382-85 Weymouth, Captain George, 22


Weymouth Fore River, 618


Weymouth Landing, 383 Whale Inn, Goshen, 529


Whaleman Statue (New Bedford), 287 Whaling: (Nantucket), 560; (New Bedford), 285; (Plymouth), 321; (Provincetown), 328- 29; end of, 49, 50


Whalley, Edmund, 527


Wharf Theater, 333 Wharton, Edith, home of, 483


Whately, 564 Wheatley, Phillis, 6


Wheaton College, 308-09, 310


Wheaton College Chapel (see Wheaton Col- lege)


Wheaton Female Seminary, 309


Wheaton, Judge Laban, 309


Wheelwright House, 293-94


Wheelwright, John, IOI


Whig Party, 48, 395


Whipple House (Ipswich), 418


Whipple, Mrs. Naomi, 428


Whipsufferage, 47I


Whistler, James Abbott McNeill, 120-21, 264 Whistling Whale, 33I


Whitcher, Goody, 508; Barrow Hill, 508


Whitcomb Summit, observation (Florida), 458 White, Colonel Asaph (Erving), 452


White Court (Swampscott), 424


Summer White House of President Calvin Coolidge, 424


White Homestead, Peregrine, site of, 625


White House, Abijah (Watertown), 378


White Memorial Fountain, 150


White, Peregrine, 625


White Valley, 602


Whitefield, George, 293, 524


Whitehall, 470


Whitin, Paul, 605


Whiting Mills (Holyoke), 248


Whitinsville, 605


Whitman, 627-28


Whitman, Augustus, 627


Whitney, Andrew, 234


Whitney, Anne, 376, 444


Whitney Arches, 234


Whitney, Eli, birthplace of, 52I


Whitney, Harry Payne, 599


Whitney, Joel, 465


Whitney Park Observation Tower, 599


Whittemore, Amos, 130, 465


Whittemore-Robbins Mansion (Arlington), 134 Whittemore, Samuel, 133


Whittemore, William, and Company (Arling- ton), 130


Whittier, John Greenleaf, 90, 93, 104, 105, 106, 246, 431, 508, 509; birthplace of, Haverhill, 247, 509; Whittier Family Monument, 509; Whittier House, 508 Whorf, John, 123, 329


Wianno Headland, 593


Widener Memorial Room, 196 (see Harvard College) Wiggins Tavern, 303 Wigglesworth Hall, 198 (see Harvard College) Wigglesworth, Michael, 102; Day of Doom,


Wight, Alice Stallknecht, 592


Wigwams, English, 79 Wilbraham Academy, 477


Wilbraham Lookout Tower, 477 Wilbur Theater, 86, 162 Wilcox, Peter, Jr., 482 Wildcat Foot Trail, 486


Wilder, Jonathan, 514


Wilder Mansion (Harvard), 513


Wilkins, Mary E., 108


Wilkinson, Jemima, 617


Willard Brook, 460


Willard House (Deerfield), 225


Willard House, Henry (Harvard), 513


Willard, Samuel, Dr., 225


Willard, Simon, 156, 2II; clock by, 218


Willard, Solomon, 84


Willett, Captain Thomas, 610


Williams College, 386, 387-88


Williams, Colonel Ephraim, 386, 564


Williams, Eleazar, 567


Williams, Elisha, 564


Williams, Eunice, Monument (Deerfield), 454


Williams House, John (Deerfield), 226


Williams Inn Club (Marlborough), 472


Williams, John, 224, 226


Williams, John Chandler, 313 1


Williams, Lucretia, 313


Williams, Roger, 4, 18, 91-92, 101, 139


Williams Tavern (Marlborough), 472


Williamsburg, 528


Williamstown, 386-89


Willis House, 44I


Williston Academy (Easthampton), 572


Williston, Samuel, 572


Willow Lake Farm, 432


Will's Hill (Middleton), 432


Wilmington, 433


Wilson, Edmund, 330


Wilson, Henry, 519


Wilson Tree, Henry, 519


Wilson, Woodrow, 74


Winchendon, 540


Winchester, 465 Winchester, Colonel, 465


Wind Gap, 551 (see Mt. Holyoke)


Windham, Charles, Earl of Egremont, 582


Windmills (Millis), 442; (Nantucket), 562


Windsor, 530-3I


Windsor Jambs, 530


Windsor Pond (Florida), 458


Winnicunnet Turkey Farm, 310 Winnikenni Castle (Haverhill), 247


Winnisimet, 206


Winnisimet Ferryboat, 206


Winship, Jason, 133


Winslow, Edward, 102


Winslow Family, 324


Winslow, General John, 323


Winslow, Governor Edward, 619


Winslow House, Edward (Plymouth), 323


Winslow House (Marshfield), 625


Winsor, Justin, 106


Winthrop, 425 Winthrop, Deane, 425


Winthrop, Governor John, 32, 33, 138, 179, 185, 271, 280, 292, 425, 434; country home of, 355; Journal of, 423; statue of, 149 Winthrop House, Deane (Revere), 425


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Winthrop, John, Jr., 413, 421, 475 Winthrop Pond, 438 Wireless Station, R.C.A. (Marion), 499 Wise House, John (Ipswich), 418 Wise, Rev. John, 417, 418 Wishing Well, Indian memorial (Charlemont), 457 Wistariahurst (Holyoke), 249 Wiswall, Ichabod, grave of, 626 Witch House (Salem), 347 (see Witchcraft) Witchcraft, 242:


Corwin, Judge, 347; Gallows Hill, 345; George, Luce, 242-43; Hale, Mrs., 345; Parris, Rev. Samuel, 344; Persecutions, 344-45; Phips, Governor, 345; Proctor, Elizabeth, 242; Rhines, Judy, 243; Salem, 344-45; Tituba, 344-45; Voodoo Tales, 344-45; Wesson, Peg, 243; Witch House, 347; Younger, Tammy, 243


Wizard's Glen, 53I Wo Peen, murals, 367 Woburn, 389-92 Wolf Rock, 538


Wolfe, General, 293 Wolfe Tavern, 293 Wollaston, Captain Thomas, 31, 32I


Women's City Club, 152


Women's Suffrage, 395 (see Worcester) Women's Trade Union League, 76


Wonder Strands, 333 Wonder Working Providence, 77 Wonnocoote, Sachem's Rock, 629


Wood, William M., 72, 493; estate of, 555


Woodbury, Charles H., 372 Woodbury, Colonel Bartholomew, 604


Woodcock House (S. Walpole), 414


Wooden Chair (South Gardner), 450


Woods Hole, 555 Woods Hole Aquarium, 595 Woods, Leonard, 517 Woodward Farmhouse, 299 Woodwardia Areolate, 590


Woodworth Tavern, site of (Dedham), 219 Wooley, Mary Emma, 357 Worcester, 392-403


Worcester Academy, 403 Worcester Art Museum, 117-18


Worcester City Hall, 396


Worcester County, 20, 23


Worcester Music Festival, 393


Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 53, 400


Worcester Purification Works, 474


Worcester Turnpike, 518, 521


Workingmen of Boston, 67


Workingmen's Institute, 71


Workmen's Circle Camp, 457


World Peace Foundation, 465


Woronoco, 479, 484


Worthen, Ezra, 26I


Worthington Center, 532


Worthington Corners (Worthington), 532


Wrentham, 428


Wrentham State School for Feebleminded · Children, 429


Wright Emery Mine, 480-81


Wright, Frank Lloyd, 87


Wright, grave of Prudence, 461


Wright House, 302


Wright Tavern, 215


Wychmere Harbor, 592


Wymen, Jabez, 133


Xaverian Brothers, 422-23


Yale Linus, 455


Yankee Sticks, 54I


Yarmouth, 496


Young House, 307


Young, Walter, 437


Younger, Tammy, 243


Zerrahn, Carl, 116 Zoar, 456 Zylonite, 596


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