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Erie Plating Company now serves customers through the Eastern United States. At the time of the company's founding the electroplating industry was in its infancy. At that time, the company's main focus was in finishing cast-iron cookware , polishing the chrome on wood-burning stoves , and plating metals used in other products like locomotives ...
Church on the Hill, in Berkshire County House of the Seven Gables, in Salem, Essex County Sankaty Head Light, in Nantucket Faneuil Hall, Boston, Suffolk County The Flying Horses Carousel, Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County The Ware-Hardwick Covered Bridge, Hampshire and Worcester Counties The PT 796, Fall River, Bristol County The Alvah Stone Mill, Montague, Franklin County
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map.
A large number of places in the U.S were named after places in England largely as a result of English settlers and explorers of the Thirteen Colonies.. Some names were carried over directly and are found throughout the country (such as Manchester, Birmingham and Rochester).
The district is 102 acres (41 ha) in size, and includes 77 historically significant buildings. It extends for some distance along the roads radiating away from the common, as well as Massachusetts Avenue to the east and west, and Main and Highland Streets to the north. Most of the buildings in it are residential and of wood-frame construction.
The town of Westminster was settled in 1737 and incorporated in 1759. Its early town center was located on a high point near the town's geographic center, now known as Academy Hill. That area included the town common, and was historically lined by houses and early civic buildings, including a church and a school house.
The Nathan Wood House is located in southern Westminster, on the east side of Worcester Road (Massachusetts Route 140), just south of its junction with Patricia Lane. It is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof, central chimney, and clapboarded exterior. The main facade is five bays wide, with sash windows arranged ...
1661 Massachusetts Ave. 42°26′49″N 71°13′32″W / 42.446944°N 71.225556°W / 42.446944; -71.225556 ( US Post Office-Lexington References