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John Parker was born in Lexington, Massachusetts Bay to Josiah Parker and Anna Stone. He was a descendant of Deacon Thomas Parker, founder of Reading, Massachusetts. [1] John Parker was also the grandfather of reformer and abolitionist Theodore Parker. [2]
In the early 1630s, a Praying Indian village named Shawshin was at the current site of Billerica, [3] commonly spelled Shawsheen today, as in the Shawsheen River.In 1638, Massachusetts Bay Governor John Winthrop and Lt. Governor Thomas Dudley were granted land along the Concord River in the area, and roughly a dozen families from Cambridge and Charlestown Village had begun to occupy Shawshin ...
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
In Milwaukee, 15 Lustron homes survive, as of 2014, in a cluster around Lincoln Creek north of Capitol Drive and Cooper Park. These are mostly the Winchester model, but the home at 5520 W. Philip Pl., which has a "unique blue and yellow color scheme, is almost certainly one of the early Esquire “demonstration” homes, which first appeared in ...
The Billerica Mills Historic District is a historic district between the Concord River, Treble Cove Terrace, Kohlrausch Avenue, Indian Road, Holt Ruggles, and Rogers Streets in the village of North Billerica, Massachusetts (part of the town of Billerica). The C.P. Talbot & Company mill building still stands in the center of the district.
February 1 – The United States tests its first Minuteman I intercontinental ballistic missile. [1] February 4 – The Portuguese Colonial War begins in Angola. February 5–9 – In Congo, President Joseph Kasa-Vubu names Joseph Iléo as the new Prime Minister.
The building still exists as a memorial service chapel for Tighe Hamilton Funeral Home. [ 68 ] The Union Church of All Faiths , also known as the United Memorial Chapel for All Faiths, is a 5-foot (1.5 m) by 11-foot (3.4 m) wood-frame building located in Hudson.
Norwood is a town and census-designated place in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States.Norwood is part of the Greater Boston area. As of the 2020 census, the population was 31,611. [1]