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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28DJ_nehemiah-smedley-house_Williamstown-MA.html
Built 1772 as a farmhouse and
tavern. Benedict Arnold slept
here May 6, 1775 enroute to
help Ethan Allen take Fort
Ticonderoga. Bread baked here
for Battle of Bennington,
Aug. 16, 1777.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28CC_the-birthplace-of-american-foreign-missions-1806_Williamstown-MA.html
Samuel J. Mills · James Richards
Francis L. Robbins · Harvey Loomis
Byram Green
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On this site in the she…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28CB_the-meeting-house-of-the-first-congregational-church-ucc_Williamstown-MA.html
Organized by proprietors of the town 1765
this house of worship erected 1869, rebuilt 1914.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28C9_west-college_Williamstown-MA.html
Original Williams College
building, completed in 1790
as a free school under bequest
of Col. Ephraim Williams, killed
at Battle of Lake George,
Sept. 8, 1755, and for whom
Williamstown is named.
The free school became
Williams College in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28BT_south-williamstown-five-corners_Williamstown-MA.html
Site of first cabin built by
Isaac Stratton in 1762; first
tavern, built by Samuel Sloan
in 1767; town meetings in second
story hall built by John
Jordan in early 1830's.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28BS_ulysses-franklin-frank-grant_Williamstown-MA.html
Frank Grant, born in Pittsfield in 1865, was regarded by many of his contemporaries as the greatest African American baseball player of the 19th century. He moved to Williamstown in 1871 where he lived with his family on Spring Street. Playing p…