Search results for "Western Massachusetts" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • observed on the third Monday in April in Massachusetts [https://www ... (which until the Missouri Compromise of 1820 was part of Massachusetts ...
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  • Shays' rebellion was an armed uprising in western Massachusetts from 1786 to 1787. The rebels, led by Daniel Shays and known as Shaysites ...
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  • at Pemberton Square in Boston, Massachusetts, the same building which ... to its many volumes. Meanwhile, the Massachusetts General Court (the state ...
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  • settled areas of upstate New York, western Massachusetts and northern Ohio ... *Charles Sumner, U.S. senator from Massachusetts *Oren B. Cheney, legislator ...
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  • |address =50 College Street, South Hadley, Massachusetts, 01075 ... women's college in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Originally founded as ...
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  • many other notables of the period. The Massachusetts Committee of Correspondence ... She married James Warren, who was elected speaker of the Massachusetts ...
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  • Sherman was born in Newton, Massachusetts. His parents were William ... When he was three years old, his family moved to Stoughton, Massachusetts ...
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  • War. In 1774 Gage became governor of Massachusetts, and attempted to extinguish ... American uprising already in progress on the western frontier. ...
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  • when his family moved to Williamstown, Massachusetts, so that he and his three ... at South Berkshire Academy in Marlboro, Massachusetts, and married Isabella ...
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  • which become the Berkshires in western Massachusetts, are smaller than ... and rural New Englanders in western Massachusetts, northwestern Connecticut ...
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  • Bryant was born in Cummington, Massachusetts, the second son of Peter ... was published by his father, then a Massachusetts state legislator. In ...
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  • Samuel Morse was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, the first child ... Louvre" when he returned home to Massachusetts and to earn an income ...
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  • European colonial adventurism in the Western Hemisphere. As president ... John Quincy Adams was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, in a part ...
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  • states: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut ... century. Small towns and cities dot western Massachusetts' Berkshire region ...
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  • slavery sentiment and the acquisition of western territory that it became ... law—was followed by legislation in Massachusetts (1843), Vermont (1843 ...
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  • by the National Park Service and the Western Reserve Historical Society. ... F. Kennedy Presidential Library Boston, Massachusetts. Presidential libraries ...
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  • the Connecticut River Valley region of Massachusetts, to northern Franklin County, ... on the Holyoke Range in Belchertown, Massachusetts, and ending at the Hanging ...
    33 KB (4,756 words) - 10:34, 10 March 2023
  • Newell Convers Wyeth was born in Needham, Massachusetts on October ... His three trips between 1904 and 1906 to the western United States ...
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  • served congregations in Connecticut and Massachusetts. She was educated at ... begin another academy for young women. The Western Female Institute was established ...
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  • and soon achieved a tenured position at Massachusetts Institute of Technology ... died of heart failure at his home in Lexington, Massachusetts. ...
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