view gallery |  Derby Square
in Massachusetts Historical Markers This sign marks the old center of commerce for the town of Salem, including the old town hall. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 9/12/2007 last visited: 11/19/2011 |
view gallery |  The Point (Salem)
in Massachusetts Historical Markers This sign, next to a large white complex of buildings that once was the Naumkeag Steam Mill, tells of how this area was developed and the people who lived here. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 9/12/2007 last visited: never |
view gallery |  First Intelligible Voice Transmission Over Electric Wire, 1876
in Massachusetts Historical Markers This was the place where the first human words were carried over electric wire and the device used developed into the telephone. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 9/12/2007 last visited: 7/13/2010 |
view gallery |  First Mill
in Massachusetts Historical Markers A historic marker noting the location of John Wing's Mill in Worcester posted by: cache_test_dummies location: Massachusetts date approved: 9/10/2007 last visited: never |
view gallery |  Birthplace of the Telephone
in Massachusetts Historical Markers Birthplace of a revolutionary telecommunications device. posted by: Shorelander location: Massachusetts date approved: 9/8/2007 last visited: 7/4/2010 |
view gallery |  Salem State College
in Massachusetts Historical Markers Salem State College has been a teachers school dedicated to the public higher education of the youth of the commonwealth. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 9/7/2007 last visited: 5/31/2009 |
view gallery |  Plaque for a Building Devoted to Municipal and Judicial Uses (Including Witchcraft Trials)
in Massachusetts Historical Markers This plaque is near the spot where in a building "...were tried and condemned for witchcraft most of the nineteen persons who suferred death on the gallows." posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 9/7/2007 last visited: 11/19/2011 |
view gallery |  Hessian Troop Encampment - West Springfield, MA
in Massachusetts Historical Markers Commemorating the place where Hessian troops encamped. Yes, the Hessians were on the other side during the Revolutionary War. posted by: neoc1 location: Massachusetts date approved: 8/20/2007 last visited: never |
view gallery |  General Henry Knox Passed Through Here - Westfield
in Massachusetts Historical Markers Knox Trail Marker. Number 8 of 26 markers in Massachusetts to commemorate General Henry Knox's transport of artillery from Fort Ticonderoga to Cambridge. posted by: neoc1 location: Massachusetts date approved: 8/12/2007 last visited: 9/4/2009 |
view gallery |  General Henry Knox Passed Through Here - Springfield
in Massachusetts Historical Markers Knox Trail Marker. Number 10 of 26 markers in Massachusetts to commemorate General Henry Knox's transport of artillery from Fort Ticonderoga to Cambridge. posted by: neoc1 location: Massachusetts date approved: 8/12/2007 last visited: 9/6/2009 |
view gallery |  General Henry Knox Passed Through Here - West Springfield
in Massachusetts Historical Markers Knox Trail Marker. Number 9 of 26 markers in Massachusetts to commemorate General Henry Knox's transport of artillery from Fort Ticonderoga to Cambridge. posted by: neoc1 location: Massachusetts date approved: 8/11/2007 last visited: 9/6/2009 |
view gallery |  Roberts Paper Mill
in Massachusetts Historical Markers This location, near the Stony Brook dam, was where a lot of mill activity took place, including a paper mill that was the first to manufacture tarred paper for building purposes, and asbestos paper. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 8/2/2007 last visited: never |
view gallery |  Memorial to Passaconnaway
in Massachusetts Historical Markers A stone memorial in Lowell at Pawtucketville. posted by: Shorelander location: Massachusetts date approved: 8/1/2007 last visited: 11/12/2011 |
view gallery |  Monestary of Saint John the Evangelist
in Massachusetts Historical Markers The monestary of the Society of Saint John the Evangelist, the oldest Anglican monastic community for men, was built in 1936 and overlooks the Charles River along Memorial Drive. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 7/28/2007 last visited: never |
view gallery |  Melusina Fay Peirce
in Massachusetts Historical Markers On an old factory building in a dense part of Cambridge is a sign about Melusina Fay Peirce, who was an early feminist. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 7/28/2007 last visited: never |
view gallery |  Hooper-Lee-Nichols House
in Massachusetts Historical Markers This house, one of the oldest in Cambridge, is the headquarters and museum of the Cambridge Historical Society. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 7/28/2007 last visited: never |
view gallery |  General Henry Knox Passed Through Here - Waltham
in Massachusetts Historical Markers One in a series of stones that mark the likely route that General Henry Knox, soldiers, and tired oxen took to drag cannons from Ft. Ticonderoga to Cambridge. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 7/28/2007 last visited: 8/13/2009 |
view gallery |  Howard Clock Building
in Massachusetts Historical Markers The building, still standing, once was the factory for, first, the United States Watch Company, then the E. Howard Clock Co. Though less known compared to the Waltham Watch Co., these companies helped Waltham earn its nickname, "Watch City." posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 7/28/2007 last visited: never |
view gallery |  First Meeting House in Wrentham
in Massachusetts Historical Markers This stone was the doorstep of the first meeting house in Wrentham. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 7/24/2007 last visited: never |
view gallery |  First Wrentham School-House
in Massachusetts Historical Markers This plaque marks the location of Wrentham's first school house. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 7/24/2007 last visited: never |
view gallery |  Mason and Hamlin Company
in Massachusetts Historical Markers Blue Oval sign marks the location where Mason and Hamlin once manufactured melodeons, organs, and pianos. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 7/21/2007 last visited: never |
view gallery |  Carriage Making [Cambridge]
in Massachusetts Historical Markers This area once had several carriage building operations and this building was once the factory of the Henderson Brothers, the most successful of these factories. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 7/21/2007 last visited: never |
view gallery |  Arlington Center
in Massachusetts Historical Markers This sign, along the Minuteman Rail-Trail, behind the downtown section of Arlington, provides a history of this part of town. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 7/21/2007 last visited: never |
view gallery |  Russell Historic District [Arlington]
in Massachusetts Historical Markers The sign marks a neighborhood with several older homes. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 7/21/2007 last visited: never |
view gallery |  Site of the General Store of Thomas Russell (1750)
in Massachusetts Historical Markers This small plaque marks where Thomas Russell's General Store was located, which was looted by the British troops after the Battle of Lexington and Concord. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 7/21/2007 last visited: never |
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