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|   1639 - History of Mother Brook - 2009 - Dedham, MA
in Massachusetts Historical Markers This sign posted in Condon Park relates the history of the mills that operated along Mother Brook that started in 1639 when a canal was dug from the Charles River to one of the brook's branches. posted by:  NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 3/3/2012 last visited: never |
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| Fairbanks House in Massachusetts Historical Markers This sign is by the Fairbanks House, which still exists and is now a museum at East and Eastern Streets. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 3/19/2006 last visited: never |
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| Dedham in Massachusetts Historical Markers This sign relates the founding of the town of Dedham, and that the land granted once stretched to Rhode Island. The sign is located in downtown Dedham. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 3/19/2006 last visited: never |
 view galleryW1.8 km | Here Met the Convention that Later Adopted the Suffolk Resolves - Dedham, MA in Massachusetts Historical Markers At this location, a committee met that drafted and later approved the Suffolk Resolves, which was taken to Philadelphia and approved by the First Continental Congress. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 3/19/2009 last visited: never |
 view galleryW1.8 km | Dedham "Keye" Landing Place - Dedham, MA in Massachusetts Historical Markers This place along the Charles River, and along today's Ames Street Bridge, is considered the location where the first settlers landed and founded Dedham, MA, in 1636. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 4/24/2008 last visited: never |
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| John J. Enneking - Boston, MA in Massachusetts Historical Markers John J. Enneking was an American Impressionist painter who lived in the Hyde Park part of Boston from 1879 to 1916. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 5/19/2012 last visited: never |
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| The Theodore Parker Church - Boston, MA in Massachusetts Historical Markers The Theodore Parker Church is a stone church named after a well known abolitionist and associated with the Transcendental movement of the mid 1800s. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 5/20/2013 last visited: never |
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| Second Massachusetts Infantry 1861-1865 - Boston, MA in Massachusetts Historical Markers At this location, the 2nd Massachusetts Infantry trained at Fort Andrew and left for the Civil War. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 9/20/2010 last visited: never |
 view galleryW4.8 km | Town Pound - Westwood, Massachusetts in Massachusetts Historical Markers A historical marker notes the location of Westwood's Town Pound posted by: cache_test_dummies location: Massachusetts date approved: 6/4/2010 last visited: never |
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| Walter Street Burying Ground in Massachusetts Historical Markers At the west end of the Arnold Arboretum, there is a burying ground with grave markers dating before the Revolutionary War. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 5/4/2008 last visited: never |
 view galleryNE5.5 km | Sign on the Train Disaster at Bussey Bridge - Boston, MA in Massachusetts Historical Markers This plaque marks the location where a bridge collapsed, killing 23 passengers and injured 125 others. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 5/7/2008 last visited: never |
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| Blue Hill Observatory in Massachusetts Historical Markers Blue Hill Observatory maintains the oldest continuous record in the U.S. for weather observations, and used kites and balloons to make high altitude observations. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 1/1/2007 last visited: never |
 view gallerySE5.5 km | Blue Hill Kite Barn in Massachusetts Historical Markers The kite shed housed weather kites used to make atmospheric observations many thousand feet in the air. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 1/1/2007 last visited: never |
 view gallerySE5.5 km | Kites in Meteorology in Massachusetts Historical Markers This sign details the history of kite flying to make observations high in the earth's atmosphere, before they used balloons. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 1/1/2007 last visited: never |
 view galleryW5.8 km | Town of Needham in Massachusetts Historical Markers This sign relates the history of Needham's founding and when territory was split from the town. The sign is found along Dedham Avenue (Rte 135), near the intersection with South Street. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 3/19/2006 last visited: never |
 view galleryE6.3 km | The Milton Powder House, 1811 - Milton, MA in Massachusetts Historical Markers This powder house was built to prepare for possible hostilities with the British and was brought to this place in 1974 as part of the bicentennial celebrations for the Suffolk Resolves. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 6/2/2012 last visited: never |
 view gallerySE6.4 km | Ponkapoag Plantation in Massachusetts Historical Markers Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary Commission sign visible along Route 138 in Canton, near a water tower and a quarter mile from I-93. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 3/19/2006 last visited: 9/30/2006 |
 view galleryE7.1 km | G. H. Bent Factory Sign in Massachusetts Historical Markers The G. H. Bent Company is known for making the first 'hard tack' biscuit and coined the word 'cracker.' posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 1/25/2007 last visited: never |
 view gallerySW7.2 km | Oven Mouth - Westwood, Massachusetts in Massachusetts Historical Markers A historical marker near the opening of a cave once used by Native Americans who lived in the area. posted by: cache_test_dummies location: Massachusetts date approved: 6/4/2010 last visited: never |
 view galleryNW7.4 km | Needham's First Church in Massachusetts Historical Markers The site of the new (relatively speaking) location of the first church in Needham, Massachusetts. posted by: Shorelander location: Massachusetts date approved: 3/24/2007 last visited: 12/31/2007 |
 view galleryE7.6 km | Birthplace of President George Herbert Walker Bush in Massachusetts Historical Markers This is the location where President Bush, Sr. was born (and you thought he was born a Texan). posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 4/18/2006 last visited: 10/6/2005 |
 view galleryE7.6 km | 1640 Milton Landing Place in Massachusetts Historical Markers At this location was where the Suffolk Resolves were signed, a document that influenced the writing of the Declaration of Independence. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 10/1/2007 last visited: never |
 view galleryE7.6 km | Baker Chocolate in Massachusetts Historical Markers This describes the company that built the factory complex that still exists. Much of the complex is now condominiums. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 4/18/2006 last visited: never |
 view galleryE7.6 km | Welcome to Gov. Hutchinson's Field in Massachusetts Historical Markers Gov. Hutchinson was the last Royal Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, lived a hard-luck life, and 'got no respect.' posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 4/18/2006 last visited: never |
 view galleryE7.7 km | Milton Landing in Massachusetts Historical Markers This area at Milton Lower Mills, where the Neponset River widens out into marshes, is where mills and commerce were established, including operations that manufactured chocolate and paper and traded lumber. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 10/1/2007 last visited: never |
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