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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWX5_william-hutchinsons-grant_Quincy-MA.html
In William Hutchinson's house near this spot his wife Anne tarried on her way to Rhode Island, exiled from Massachusetts by the General Court in April, 1638.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWX3_indian-trail_Milton-MA.html
Churchill's Lane. When the Indians sold their land near the mouth of the Neponset River they removed to the territory south of the Blue Hills, which they called Ponkapoag, sweet water.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWWX_fairbanks-house_Dedham-MA.html
Oldest house in Dedham, a part of it built about 1636. Homestead of Jonathan Fairbanks, who, with his sons John, George, and Jonathan, Junior, signed the Dedham Covenant September 10, 1636. Ancestral home of the late Vice- President Fairbanks.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWWT_ponkapoag-plantation_Canton-MA.html
The north line of Ponkapoag Plantation second of the Apostle Eliot's Praying Indian towns, set apart by the Dorchester Proprietors in 1657.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWWN_peak-house_Medfield-MA.html
The original house, built in 1651, was burned when King Philip's Indians burnt the town of Medfield in 1676. Seth Clark, the owner, received indemnity from the colonial government and in 1680 rebuilt the present Peak house, so called because of it…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWGO_dedham_Dedham-MA.html
Settled in 1636 by people from Watertown and Roxbury. In early years the town extended to the Rhode Island line.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMS8F_antoine-and-wilson-memorial_Cohasset-MA.html
Dedicated to the memory of Joseph Antoine and Joseph Wilson, keepers of the first Minot Ledge Lighthouse who, while manning the Light on the night of Apr. 17, 1851, lost their lives when the lighthouse was swept into the sea during a violent north…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMS8D_minots-ledge-lighthouse_Cohasset-MA.html
On this site 3,514 tons of Quincy granite were hewn into 1,079 dovetailed blocks whose final weight totalled 2,367 tons. On the two circular forms seen here, the cut stones were carefully assembled to assure perfect fit; then disassembled and t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR7Q_adams-national-historical-park_Quincy-MA.html
John AdamsJohn Quincy AdamsBirthplaces
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR7P_old-house_Quincy-MA.html
National Park ServiceU.S. Department of the Interior[ Back of marker ] "It is but the farmof a Patriot"· · · · · John Adams, ? 1788
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