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Author : Helen Fitch Emery
Release : 1981
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 786/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Puritan Village Evolves by : Helen Fitch Emery
Download or read book The Puritan Village Evolves written by Helen Fitch Emery. This book was released on 1981. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sumner Chilton Powell
Release : 1970-12
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 148/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Puritan Village by : Sumner Chilton Powell
Download or read book Puritan Village written by Sumner Chilton Powell. This book was released on 1970-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning study of Puritans and the formation of their towns.
Author : Matthew E. Thomas
Release : 2013-11-05
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 203/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Historic Powder Houses of New England by : Matthew E. Thomas
Download or read book Historic Powder Houses of New England written by Matthew E. Thomas. This book was released on 2013-11-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the turbulent history of colonial New England, more than two hundred powder houses were built to store gunpowder, guns and armaments. Even the spark from a metal shoe nail could ignite their contents, so they often sat in remote sections of town. These volatile storehouses played a vital role in earning and preserving American independence. It was, after all, to a powder house in Concord, Massachusetts, that the British army marched in April 1775 to seize colonists' gunpowder. The British were thwarted, and the colonists' defense of the powder house ignited the Revolutionary War. Add to this the duels, murders, public hangings and tragic explosions that checkered the history of these structures, and the reader will discover a fascinating and forgotten aspect of our New England heritage. Using meticulous research, Matthew Thomas narrates the colorful histories of New England's powder houses as he resurrects their historical significance in early American history.
Author : Brian Donahue
Release : 2004-01-01
Genre : Nature
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 511/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Great Meadow by : Brian Donahue
Download or read book The Great Meadow written by Brian Donahue. This book was released on 2004-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Employing precise geographical information system (GIS) mapping of land ownership and land use, Donahue describes how the land was settled and how mixed husbandry was developed in Concord. By reconstructing several farm neighborhoods and following them through many generations, he reveals a diverse sustainable farming system of tillage, orchards, pastures, hay meadows, and woodlots that required careful management of soil and water. Donahue concludes that ecological degradation came to Concord only later, when nineteenth-century economic and social forces undercut the environmental balance that earlier colonial farmers had nurtured."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Evelyn Wolfson
Release : 2015
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 915/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Legendary Locals of Wayland by : Evelyn Wolfson
Download or read book Legendary Locals of Wayland written by Evelyn Wolfson. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wayland's historic district is dominated by the 1815 First Parish Church, designed and built by Andrews Palmer of Newburyport, who adapted an Asher Benjamin design. The Rev. Edmund Sears served as minister for 17 years and wrote "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear" for a First Parish Sunday school celebration in 1849. Wealthy Bostonians soon established summer homes in town. Willard Austin Bullard purchased the residence beside the church and christened it Kirkside, and William Power Perkins purchased Mainstone Farm and established the first Guernsey cow farm in the state. By the mid- to late 1800s, Cochituate Village was dominated by a well-established shoe industry and stately Victorian homes lined the streets. A little more than a century later, the town was preparing for an influx of folks from the city. Howard Russell and Allen Benjamin created an official town map, designating streets, and delineating the established uses for the town's 15.2 square miles. Thanks to the vision and hard work of these men and others like them, the town still retains a semblance of its rural atmosphere with almost 3,000 acres of permanently protected open space.
