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  • Charlestown

    by Anthony Mitchell Sammarco ...
    Series series Images of America
    Images of America: Charlestown explores this historic city's rich and fascinating history through photographs. Originally settled in 1629, Charlestown became well-known as the scene of the pivotal Revolutionary Battle of Bunker Hill, actually fought on Breed's Hill. Recovering from a devastating fire at the hands of the British soon after the battle, Charlestown went on to become a prosperous ... Read more

    $17.60 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A History of Howard Johnson's

    How a Massachusetts Soda Fountain Became an American Icon

    by Anthony Mitchell Sammarco ...
    The iconic restaurant chain that defined Americana by introducing twenty-eight flavors of ice cream, "tendersweet" clam strips, grilled "frankforts," and more.Popularly known as the "Father of the Franchise Industry," Howard Johnson delivered good food and fair prices—a winning combination that brought appreciative customers back for more. The attractive white Colonial Revival restaurants, with ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Boston

    A Historic Walking Tour

    by Anthony Mitchell Sammarco ...
    Series series Images of America
    Oliver Wendell Holmes coined the Massachusetts State House as the �Hub of the Universe.� In Boston: A Historic Walking Tour, readers are guided on a series of downtown walking tours that radiate out from this Boston landmark. Featuring different excursions that explore Boston�s prominent neighborhoods and districts, visitors and natives alike will see how this city has become one of the country�s ... Read more

    $17.96 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cambridge

    by Anthony Mitchell Sammarco ...
    Series series Images of America
    Uncover the history of Cambridge, Massachusetts through vintage images in this pictorial history. Settled as New Towne in 1631, Cambridge was referred to by Wood, a seventeenth-century chronicler, as "one of the neatest and best compacted towns in New England." The founding of Harvard College in 1636 was to ensure the town's notoriety, as it was the first college in the New World. Harvard gave ... Read more

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  • Forest Hills Cemetery

    by Anthony Mitchell Sammarco ...
    Series series Images of America
    Laid out in 1848 as a rural garden cemetery by Henry A. S. Dearborn, Forest Hills Cemetery celebrates its 160th anniversary in 2008 as Boston's premier arboretum cemetery. Since the mid-19th century, its 250 magnificent acres have been the resting place of people of all walks of life, ethnicities, religions, and races. Among these are poets Anne Sexton and E. E. Cummings, playwright Eugene O'Neill ... Read more

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  • Dorchester

    Volume II

    by Anthony Mitchell Sammarco ...
    Series series Images of America
    In Dorchester Volume II, local author Anthony Mitchell Sammarco continues his detailed look at this diverse town that he began in Volume I, which the Boston Globe hailed as a best-seller. Founded in 1630 by Puritans, Dorchester has experienced spectacular growth over the last few centuries; the Old Colony Railroad and later the Red Line providedimpetus for the quick development of this �streetcar ... Read more

    $17.91 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Milton

    A Compendium

    by Anthony Mitchell Sammarco ...
    Series series American Chronicles
    Nestled between the Neponset River and the Blue Hills Reservation is the postcard-perfect New England town of Milton, Massachusetts. Founded in 1640, its gentle riverbanks were soon transformed by some of the first mills in the colonies, and later an industrial boom drew tides of immigrants from across the seas. Local author and noted historian Anthony Sammarco brings together a fascinating ... Read more

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  • Boston

    A Century of Progress

    by Anthony Mitchell Sammarco ...
    Series series Images of America
    On March 4, 1822, the townsfolk of Boston voted to incorporate their town as the City of Boston. A great change had just taken place, but even greater changes were to come during the ensuing century, as Boston's population grew from 50,000 to 750,000 by 1922 and as it developed from a colonial town into the "Hub of the Universe." Boston: A Century of Progress brings to life one hundred amazing ... Read more

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  • Medford

    by Anthony Mitchell Sammarco ...
    Series series Images of America
    Referred to in its beginning as a �peculiar town,� Medford was originally a town but a plantation owned by Governor Matthew Craddock. Known as Meadford at the time of its settlement in 1630, the area was a flourishing village located along the Mystic River that boasted numerous farms, fisheries, and shipbuilding. A small town for the first two centuries after it was settled, Medford was ... Read more

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  • Somerville

    by Anthony Mitchell Sammarco ...
    Series series Images of America
    Once a part of Charlestown that could only be reached via �The Neck� (present-day Sullivan Square), Somerville became accessible from Boston with the construction of the Middlesex Canal and the extension of various rail lines in the mid- to late nineteenth century. By 1842, Somerville�s population had increased to the point that the town officially separated itself from Charlestown. Over the years ... Read more

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  • Roslindale

    by Anthony Mitchell Sammarco ...
    Series series Then and Now
    Once referred to as the "Suburb Superb," Roslindale was at one time part of the town of West Roxbury, which had been set off from Roxbury in 1851. The rapid development of Roslindale, which was annexed to the city of Boston in 1874 and was then known as the South Street District, was largely due to the Boston and Providence Railroad and the streetcars that connected the area to Forest Hills ... Read more

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  • Dorchester

    by Anthony Mitchell Sammarco ...
    Series series Then and Now
    The ease of transportation via the Old Colony Railroad revolutionized Dorchester in the period between 1850 and the Civil War and brought a residential building boom that lasted the next seven decades. The town was annexed to the city of Boston in 1870, and by the turn of the century, Dorchester was one-fifth of the entire city. By the time of the Great Depression, the three-decker, Dorchester's ... Read more

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