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Front and back cover: ''View of the City of Boston from Dorchester Heights."Painted and engraved by Robert Havell, New York, 1840. Courtesy of the New York Public Library.
Title page: View of Amherst College. Courtesy of Amherst College.
Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
Avakian, Monique. A historical album of Massachusetts / Monique Avakian. p. cm. (Historical albums) Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary: A history of Massachusetts, from pre-Colonial days to the present, highlighting the state's economic and cultural development. ISBN 1-56294-481-9 (lib. bdg.) ISBN 1-56294-762-1 (pbk.) 1. MassachusettsHistoryJuvenile literature. 2. Massachusetts GazetteersJuvenile literature. [1. MassachusettsHistory] I. Title. II. Series. F64.3.A93 1994 974.4dc20 93-39014 CIP AC
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C. Carter Smith, Executive Editor Lelia Wardwell, Managing Editor Monique Avakian, Principal Writer Bernard Schleifer, Art Director Shelley Latham, Production Editor Arlene Goldberg, Cartographer
Consultant: Edward Lerner, Social Studies Coordinator, Newton Public Schools, Newton, Massachusetts
Copyright 1994 by The Millbrook Press, Inc.
All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.
Manufactured in the United States of America
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CONTENTS
Introduction
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Part I: The Bay State
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Part II: Changing Times
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A Massachusetts Gazetteer
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Resource Guide
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Index
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INTRODUCTION
Throughout the history of America, Massachusetts has led the nation in reform, industry, and scientific achievement. Its story includes many American heroes. Squanto taught the Pilgrims how to survive. Paul Revere called the Minutemen to action. Crispus Attucks, a free black, was one of the first Americans to die in the Revolutionary War. Lucy Stone braved hostile crowds to speak of women's rights. And John F. Kennedy, grandson of a penniless Irish immigrant, inspired the nation to greatness.
Geography has shaped the state's growth as well. Although one of the smallest states in the nation, Massachusetts contains a wide variety of landscapes. The western half of the state includes parts of the Berkshire and Taconic mountain ranges. Moving eastward, these hills give way to a plateau and then the fertile Connecticut River Valley. The southeastern portion is a sandy plain, providing beaches and secure harbors all along the Atlantic Coast.
Boston's harbor was a natural boon to the English colonists who arrived in the 1600s. The community would grow into a great port city, attracting immigrants and industry from all over the world. Massachusetts's rivers powered the nation's first mills. Abundant fish have been a source of food and economic gain for centuries. Today both the state's famous heritage and its beautiful natural features attract visitors from all over.
Massachusetts has a remarkable history of American leaders, reform movements, and advances in both culture and science. These contributions carry on today, and are firmly in place to guide the state and its people into the future.
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PART ONE THE BAY STATE
During the 1700s and early 1800s, Nantucket, Cape Cod, and Martha's Vineyard all
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