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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFJC_old-scituate-lighthouse_Scituate-MA.html
During the year 1810 the U. S. Congress voted [$]4000 to build a lighthouse at Scituate harbor. During the War of 1812 Abigail and Rebecca Bates, young daughters of the lighthouse keeper, prevented a British naval force from sacking the town by pl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFBZ_legend-of-the-turnips_Westport-MA.html
The saga of the Macomber Turnip began on Main Road. Aiden and Elihu Macomber returned to Westport from the Philadelphia Exposition of 1876 with a prize in their pockets: exposition turnip seed. Planted in these fertile fields, the crop developed w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEB1_omni-hotels-the-parker-house_Boston-MA.html
1630-1673 Zacheus Bosworth, Captain Thomas Clarke and Lieutenant Richard Cooke dwelt here on School House Lane 1704 John Mico built a mansion on this site which was occupied in turn by Colonel Jacob Wendall, Governor Moses Gill and the Boylston …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME7U_paul-revere-house_Boston-MA.html
"Messenger of the Revolution""Patriot Engraver""Pioneer Industrialist" These are among history's labels for Paul Revere, who occupied this small frame house on North Square from 1770 to 1800. Built about 1676 after one of the great fires of Bos…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME5E_marblehead-light_Marblehead-MA.html
[Top Marker]In July of 1789, Representative Elbridge Gerry, native of Marblehead, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and Vice President of the United States under President James Madison, filed H.R. Bill 12 in Congress, officially launchin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME54_hospital-point-light-honor-the-valiant-men_Beverly-MA.html
[Bottom (larger) Marker]Hospital Point Light was established in 1871 and marks the deep-water channel to Beverly, Salem, and Marblehead. A smallpox hospital once stood on the hill to the rear, where there is also evidence of ramparts dug during…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME4U_hospital-point-lighthouse_Beverly-MA.html
Hospital Point Light was constructed and first lighted in 1872 to help guide vessels into Salem and Beverly Harbors. The original two-story keeper's house and oil house are still being used. The name Hospital Point stems from a smallpox hospita…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME4H_the-battle-of-bunker-hill_Boston-MA.html
The Battle of Bunker Hill17 June 1775This tablet marks thepoint where the Britishreinforcements landed
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME4G_south-east-corner-of-the-redoubt_Boston-MA.html
South-East Cornerof theRedoubtThrown up on the Nightof the Sixteenth of June1775
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDUM_african-americans-at-copps-hill_Boston-MA.html
The first mention of Africans arriving in Boston is in Governor John Winthrop's diary entry of February 26, 1638, in which he states: "Mr. Peirce, in the Salem Ship, the Desire, returned from the West Indies . . . and brought some cotton, and toba…
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