Author: Lancaster (Mass.)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Commemoration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Incorporation of Lancaster
Author: Lancaster (Mass.)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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An Address in Commemoration of the Two-hundredth Anniversary of the Incorporation of Lancaster, Massachusetts
Author: Joseph Willard
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Category : Lancaster (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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Category : Lancaster (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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People of the Wachusett
Author: David P. Jaffee
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501725823
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Nashaway became Lancaster, Wachusett became Princeton, and all of Nipmuck County became the county of Worcester. Town by town, New England grew—Watertown, Sudbury, Turkey Hills, Fitchburg, Westminster, Walpole—and with each new community the myth of America flourished. In People of the Wachusett the history of the New England town becomes the cultural history of America's first frontier. Integral to this history are the firsthand narratives of town founders and citizens, English, French, and Native American, whose accounts of trading and warring, relocating and putting down roots proved essential to the building of these communities. Town plans, local records, broadside ballads, vernacular house forms and furniture, festivals—all come into play in this innovative book, giving a rich picture of early Americans creating towns and crafting historical memory. Beginning with the Wachusett, in northern Worcester County, Massachusetts, David Jaffee traces the founding of towns through inland New England and Nova Scotia, from the mid-seventeenth century through the Revolutionary Era. His history of New England's settlement is one in which the replication of towns across the landscape is inextricable from the creation of a regional and national culture, with stories about colonization giving shape and meaning to New England life.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501725823
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Nashaway became Lancaster, Wachusett became Princeton, and all of Nipmuck County became the county of Worcester. Town by town, New England grew—Watertown, Sudbury, Turkey Hills, Fitchburg, Westminster, Walpole—and with each new community the myth of America flourished. In People of the Wachusett the history of the New England town becomes the cultural history of America's first frontier. Integral to this history are the firsthand narratives of town founders and citizens, English, French, and Native American, whose accounts of trading and warring, relocating and putting down roots proved essential to the building of these communities. Town plans, local records, broadside ballads, vernacular house forms and furniture, festivals—all come into play in this innovative book, giving a rich picture of early Americans creating towns and crafting historical memory. Beginning with the Wachusett, in northern Worcester County, Massachusetts, David Jaffee traces the founding of towns through inland New England and Nova Scotia, from the mid-seventeenth century through the Revolutionary Era. His history of New England's settlement is one in which the replication of towns across the landscape is inextricable from the creation of a regional and national culture, with stories about colonization giving shape and meaning to New England life.
Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Incorporation of Billerica, Massachusetts, May 29th, 1855
Author: Billerica (Mass.)
Publisher:
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Category : Billerica (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
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Category : Billerica (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Catalog ... of the American Historical Library, Collection of Alfred S. Manson, Boston, Mass
Author: Alfred Small Manson
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 538
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 538
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Catalogue of the ... Library of the Late ... G.L. Balcom ...
Author: George L. Balcom
Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Celebration of the Two-hundredth Anniversary of the Incorporation of Middleborough, Massachusetts, October 3, 1869
Author: Middleboro (Mass.)
Publisher:
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Category : Middleboro (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Middleboro (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
History of the Town of Lancaster, Massachusetts
Author: Abijah Perkins Marvin
Publisher:
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Category : Lancaster (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 862
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Category : Lancaster (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 862
Book Description
The Age of Homespun
Author: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307416860
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
They began their existence as everyday objects, but in the hands of award-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, fourteen domestic items from preindustrial America–ranging from a linen tablecloth to an unfinished sock–relinquish their stories and offer profound insights into our history. In an age when even meals are rarely made from scratch, homespun easily acquires the glow of nostalgia. The objects Ulrich investigates unravel those simplified illusions, revealing important clues to the culture and people who made them. Ulrich uses an Indian basket to explore the uneasy coexistence of native and colonial Americans. A piece of silk embroidery reveals racial and class distinctions, and two old spinning wheels illuminate the connections between colonial cloth-making and war. Pulling these divergent threads together, Ulrich demonstrates how early Americans made, used, sold, and saved textiles in order to assert their identities, shape relationships, and create history.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307416860
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
They began their existence as everyday objects, but in the hands of award-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, fourteen domestic items from preindustrial America–ranging from a linen tablecloth to an unfinished sock–relinquish their stories and offer profound insights into our history. In an age when even meals are rarely made from scratch, homespun easily acquires the glow of nostalgia. The objects Ulrich investigates unravel those simplified illusions, revealing important clues to the culture and people who made them. Ulrich uses an Indian basket to explore the uneasy coexistence of native and colonial Americans. A piece of silk embroidery reveals racial and class distinctions, and two old spinning wheels illuminate the connections between colonial cloth-making and war. Pulling these divergent threads together, Ulrich demonstrates how early Americans made, used, sold, and saved textiles in order to assert their identities, shape relationships, and create history.
Catalogue of the Library of the Massachusetts Historical Society ...
Author: Massachusetts Historical Society. Library
Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 670
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Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 670
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