The dispossessed: An aspect of Victorian social history

History

Kerr, Barbara

Historical Study & Educational Resources

J. Baker

Strong at the broken places; women who have survived drugs

Follett Pub. Co.

Bound to the Soil: Social History of Dorset, 1750-1918

Ep Publishing Ltd.

<p>Book Description Camp X - the top secret World War II 'secret agent training camp on the shores of Lake Ontario.</p>

Inside-Camp X (Inside-Camp X)

Hodgson, Lynn-Philip

Blake Books Distribution Ltd.

When the Boston and Lowell Railroad came through in 1835, Medford was a quiet town with fewer than two thousand residents. By the twentieth century, it had become a thriving city of eighteen thousand. In Victorian Medford, everything was new, from the Medford Opera House, the town hall, and the Mystic Lakes to the camera, the bicycle, and the gypsy moth. The shipbuilding, rum, and brickmaking industries gave way to new businesses, and traditional houses came to share neighborhoods with Queen Anne and Shingle-style architecture. In the mid-nineteenth century, there was great social change, as abolitionists Lydia Maria Child and George Luther Stearns spoke out against slavery and men went to the Civil War. James W. Tufts invented the soda fountain, Fannie Farmer wrote her first cookbook, and James Pierpont wrote "Jingle Bells."

Medford in the Victorian Era

Americas

Arcadia Publishing Library Editions

In Medford's past, the Mystic River was the origin and the lifeblood of the town.On June 17, 1630, Governor John Winthrop led an expedition of colonists up the Mystic River to the north of Boston, where six miles up the river they found "a good place upon Mystick." This "good place" became Medford, Massachusetts, and Winthrop's journey marked the start of a long and lively history. Glimpses of Medford consists of a selection of articles, stories and reminiscences from the Medford Historical Register, the publication of the Medford Historical Society. In these pages you will be taken on a trip through Medford's history as told by Medford's homegrown historians, from the days of the early settlement to the night that Paul Revere stopped in Medford Square on his famous ride. You will walk down Ship Street at the height of the shipbuilding era, take a ride around town on the Boston and Lowell Railroad and meet Medford's people, from Victorian milkmen to the soldiers of the Lawrence Light Guard. It's a journey through Medford's past that you will never forget.

Glimpses of Medford:: Selection from the Historical Register (American Chronicles)

The History Press

Medford, Massachusetts, has been a part of Massachusetts history since the 1630s when Governor John Winthrop travelled here, and named a rock in the Middlesex fells after the cheese in his lunch. In the span from that seventeenth century afternoon to the twenty-first, a lot has happened here. Many of the sites and structures from Medford's early centuries remain, while many others have vanished, and are remembered only in stories and vintage images. In the pages of this book, you will see a mix of Medford's centuries as you journey through the past and present of this ever changing city. From John Winthrop's lunch to the present day, Medford has grown and changed and reinvented itself over and over. It has always been a unique place and it has never been boring. As you read this book we hope you laugh and remember and learn, but most of all we hope you enjoy your journey through history, commerce, and fun that has created this one and only place.

Medford Through Time (America Through Time)

Arts & Photography

Saunders, Patricia

Photography & Video

America Through Time

You Can Choose Your Own Life: Stories for Decision Making

Parenting & Relationships

Sommer, Barry

Parenting

Independently published

Laughter for Shazpara

Children's Books

Literature & Fiction

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