Category: 1840s

• Republic of Indian Stream (Highway Marker #0001)

  

  “Once a sovereign nation”…

  Marek

  7 May, 2018

  1800-1899, 1830s, 1840s, constitution, SOURCE=roadside markers

  Canada, constitution, Indian Stream, markers, Pittsburg, United States

• Hutchinson Family Singers

  

  Color portrait of the world-famous Milford, NH quartet… PLUS series source links!

  Marek

  1 December, 2015

  1800-1899, 1840s, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, music & dance

  Abby Hutchinson, Asa Hutchinson, John Hutchinson, Judson Hutchinson, Milford, The Old Granite State

• Frederick Douglass Visits Pittsfield (1842)

  

  The famous abolitionist finds both prejudice and humanity in a NH graveyard: Douglass visited Pittsfield as part of a speaking tour through New England.  

  Marek

  14 November, 2012

  1840s, graves & memorials, Pittsfield, SOURCE=roadside markers

  1842, abolition, Frederick Douglass, grave, moses norris Jr., Pittsfield, slavery

• Dublin Lyceum (1836-1844)

  

  Community education & discourse in Dublin: The adults publish (& perform) their own bi-weekly zine… and the kids put out TWO!

  Marek

  13 November, 2012

  1830s, 1840s, Dublin, education, entertainment, SOURCE=Leonard+Seward

• Moses Trussell (New London)

  

  Wounded at Bunker Hill, and everything after…

  Marek

  10 November, 2012

  1770s, 1840s, education, forestry, graves & memorials, Hopkinton, John Stark, Massachusetts, New London, Plaistow, revolutionary era, SOURCE=roadside markers

• Haunted House (Weare)

  

  Let’s peek into another Weare haunting…

  Marek

  30 October, 2012

  1840s, cats, ghosts, SOURCE=Little, Weare

  cat, ghost, haunted, house, little, minister, weare

• To Work in the Mills? (Keene, 1845)

  

  A farm family debates sending their youngest daughter to work in the mills…

  Marek

  12 August, 2012

  1840s, food, Keene, mills, NH resources & industry, SOURCE=HSCC

  Colony Mill, economy, family, food, jobs, Keene, mills, work