Northborough History
Author : Josiah Coleman Kent
Publisher :
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 17,39 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Northborough (Mass.)
ISBN :
Author : Josiah Coleman Kent
Publisher :
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 17,39 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Northborough (Mass.)
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Author : Joseph Allen
Publisher :
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 12,36 MB
Release : 1880
Category : Northborough (Mass.)
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Author : Joseph Allen
Publisher :
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 41,70 MB
Release : 1826
Category : Marlborough (Mass.)
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Author : Robert P. Ellis
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 36,50 MB
Release : 2007-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1614234957
A small town in the center of Massachusetts seems an unlikely place for altering the tide of war and public opinion, but the town of Northborough played just such a role. Slavery had already sparked the War Between the States, but abolition was not the majority view. Abolitionists on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line gave their lives for change, perhaps nowhere more passionately than in Northborough. More than half of the towns best and brightest joined the fray, and this vigorous anti-slavery activity demands attention: were towns like Northboroughwelcoming of abolitionists and strongly involved in the fightinstrumental in changing the outcome via an emancipation that had to be proclaimed mid-war?
Author : Ellen Racine
Publisher :
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 30,25 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781635000252
Early in its 250 year history Northborough presented a varied environment. The town's rich soils supported family farms while its location on the Assabet River encouraged water powered manufacturing. Positioned on the main thoroughfares from Boston to points west, it supported transportation of agricultural products, manufactured goods, and even military armaments. The growing population's needs were met by local shopkeepers, doctors, and bankers. Primarily viewed as a residential community, Northborough today is enhanced by a vibrant mix of commercial establishments. Excellent fruit and vegetable farms, though fewer in number, are highly visible. The saw and textile mills, comb and button factories have been replaced with businesses that address modern needs. With a surging population, shops have been replaced by stores of growing size and number. The major roads that cross the town enable active warehouse and shipping operations that carry freight along the same basic routes that were once used by oxen. While much has changed in fairly dramatic fashion, one can still see threads of the past as we enter our 2016 Sestercentennial.
Author : Charles Allcott Flagg
Publisher :
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,84 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Cities and towns
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Author : Northborough Historical Society
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,78 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738504230
Once part of Marlborough and later of Westborough, Northborough declared its independence in 1766, ten years before the American colonies did the same. It has since grown from a country village to a town in little danger of becoming either a city or a suburb. Always alert to the concerns of the larger world, Northborough sees its central location in Massachusetts and New England as presenting both opportunities for its enrichment and challenges to its integrity. The town's accessibility makes it attractive to newcomers, but it has stoutly resisted runaway commercial or industrial development and has striven to remain neighborly. This book, while offering a few glances back at Northborough's first century, concentrates on its second. At the beginning of that century, Northborough built its new town hall not on a church green as before but on the nearby Boston Post Road, thus encouraging a true Main Street. At its end an interstate highway sliced across the town's northern section, thereby redefining that Main Street. Northborough life during that century appears here in all its variety: a people at home, at work, at school, at worship, and at leisure.
Author : Forrest McDonald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 47,42 MB
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1351299638
Charles A. Bear's An Economic Interpretation of the United States Constitution was a work of such powerful persuasiveness as to alter the course of American historiography. No historian who followed in studying the making of the Constitution was entirely free from Beard's radical interpretation of the document as serving the economic interests of the Framers as members of the propertied class. Forrest McDonald's We the People was the first major challenge to Beard's thesis. This superbly researched and documented volume restored the Constitution as the work of principled and prudential men. It did much to invalidate the crude economic determinism that had become endemic in the writing of American history. We the People fills in the details that Beard had overlooked in his fragmentary book. MacDonald's work is based on an exhaustive comparative examination of the economic biographies of the 55 members of the Constitutional Convention and the 1,750 members of the state ratifying conventions. His conclusion is that on the basis of evidence, Beard's economic interpretation does not hold. McDonald demonstrates conclusively that the interplay of conditioning or determining factors at work in the making of the Constitution was extremely complex and cannot be rendered intelligible in terms of any single system of interpretation. McDonald's classic work, while never denying economic motivation as a factor, also demonstrates how the rich cultural and political mosaic of the colonies was an independent and dominant factor in the decision making that led to the first new nation. In its pluralistic approach to economic factors and analytic richness, We the People is both a major work of American history and a significant document in the history of ideas. It continues to be an essential volume for historians, political scientists, economists, and American studies specialists.
Author : Andrew Noone
Publisher :
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 40,20 MB
Release : 2021-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780578835426
Bathsheba Spooner, daughter of infamous Massachusetts Loyalist Timothy Ruggles, conspired with two British POWs and her teenage American soldier/lover to kill her Patriot husband. All four were hanged in Worcester July 2, 1778. Spooner, five months pregnant, was the first woman executed in the new nation.
Author : John Warner Barber
Publisher :
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 44,64 MB
Release : 1839
Category : Massachusetts
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