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At a later date there came to that neighborhood C. C. Winegar, William Post, William Rogers, William Dunn, and George Walter. Cyrus Peasley, George Ellsworth, and Benjamin Ellsworth entered the town as settlers in 1847. Benjamin Ellsworth located near Saranac, was one of the early postmasters there, and died in 1859.
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1880 to 1910 was a time of renewal for Boston. In 1880, the city was still recovering from the fire of 1872 and, along with the rest of the nation, from the financial panic of 1873. A brilliant new era was ahead, however gloomy it may have appeared to poor and wealthy residents alike. Popular topics of debate in those years included civil and socia...
Life for most Bostonians was still rather provincial in the 1880s. Some of the city sounds were described as follows: “…the great and the universal noise in the city was the pounding pavements. That sound began before dawn when the milk carts came by thousands into the city from the outlying farms. By nine o’clock the tens of thousands of horses, i...
Because of its significance for our society today, late Victorian Boston is studied closely by historians, political economists and sociologists. The original Puritan and Yankee character of Boston had greatly disappeared by 1880. The socially and culturally elite Boston Brahmins and literary giants of the earlier 19th century had faded from the sc...
Genuine and widespread concern for the unfortunate developed during the 1880-1910 era. In Boston, Julia Ward Howe (author of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”) and abolitionist Wendell Phillips fostered these concerns about as much as anyone. The two were from the city’s First Families, yet both rebuked elite society as well as the educated of all ...
Once upon a time, Boston Town was an insulated New England township. But the community was destined for greatness. Between 1850 and 1900, Boston underwent a stunning metamorphosis to emerge as one of the world's great metropolises, one that achieved national and international prominence in politics, medicine, education, science, social activism ...
Our Town: a brief history. Alfred Wolcott of Connecticut came to Boston Township in 1805 with a surveying party to locate the lands that belonged to Simon Perkins. Among the members of the surveying party was James Stanford.
May 28, 2019 · Boston’s North End neighborhood became the locus of Italian settlement in eastern New England. Once the home of English colonists and revolutionaries like Paul Revere, Irish and Jewish immigrants settled in the North End before the wave of Italian immigration in the late 1800s.
Oct 26, 2023 · It was in front of the State House on March 5, 1770, where the Boston Massacre took place, causing high tension in the town between colonial and Royal leaders. Though not the manicured park it is today, the Boston Common served as vital open space for the town.
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During this time period, the old town of Boston first emerged as a true city. Boston became a center of commerce as its port peaked in importance and its industrial sector emerged. Immigrants inundated the city from the New England countryside, Canada, Germany, Ireland, and elsewhere (Carver, 1834).
