The Conductor's Building is a former
Boston Elevated Railway (BERy) administrative building, located on Bennett Alley between Mount Auburn Street and Bennett Street near
Harvard Square in
Cambridge, Massachusetts. Built in 1912 as the headquarters of BERy's 7th Division, it is the only original building surviving from the construction of the
Cambridge subway. After being renovated from 2014 to 2017 as part of an adjacent hotel project, the building was used as a restaurant from April 2017 to August 2018. Under the name Boston Elevated R.Y. Offices, it is a contributing property to the
Harvard Square Historic District. (Full article...)
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The Sacred Cod in its "natural habitat". "Humble the subject and homely the design; yet this painted image bears on its finny front a majesty greater than the dignity that art can lend to graven gold or chiselled marble", said an 1895 paean by Massachusetts legislators.[C]: 12
The Sacred Cod is a four-foot-eleven-inch (150 cm) carved-wood
effigy of an
Atlantic codfish, "painted to the life", hanging in the
House of Representatives chamber of Boston's
Massachusetts State House—"a memorial of the importance of the
Cod-Fishery to the welfare of this Commonwealth" (i.e.
Massachusetts, of which cod is officially the "historic and continuing symbol"). The Sacred Cod has gone through as many as three incarnations over three centuries: the first (if it really existed—the authoritative source calling it a "prehistoric creature of tradition") was lost in a 1747 fire; the second disappeared during the
American Revolution; and the third, installed in 1784, is the one seen in the House chamber today.
"Sacred Cod" is not a formal name but a nickname which appeared in 1895, soon after the carving was termed "the sacred emblem" by a House committee appointed "to investigate the significance of the emblem [which] has kept its place under all administrations, and has looked upon outgoing and incoming legislative assemblies, for more than one hundred years".[C]: 3-4,12 Soon sacred cod was being used in reference to actual codfish as well, in recognition of the creature's role in building Massachusetts's prosperity and influence since early colonial times. (Full article...)
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Julia Marden (born 1962) is an American artist based in
Vermont. A member of the
Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe, Marden specializes in traditional Wampanoag arts and crafts, including basket and mat twining,
wampum belts, and painting. (Full article...)
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Mouth of Merrimack River in Newburyport, Massachusetts, in 2021
The Merrimack is an important regional focus in both New Hampshire and Massachusetts. The central-southern part of New Hampshire and most of northeast Massachusetts is known as the
Merrimack Valley. (Full article...)
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John Messinger (January 4, 1771 – September 16, 1846) was an American pioneer, politician, teacher, and surveyor who was the first
Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives. Born in
Massachusetts, Messinger was educated in
Vermont and married the daughter of
Matthew Lyon. He left with Lyon to
Kentucky, but disagreed with his stance on slavery and came to the
Indiana Territory in 1802. He served in the Indiana Territorial Legislature and advocated for the creation of the
Illinois Territory. When the state of
Illinois was created in 1818, he co-authored its constitution and served in its
first General Assembly as Speaker of the House. Messinger was also a prominent surveyor, establishing what is now the state line between Illinois and
Wisconsin on behalf of the U.S. government. (Full article...)
Born to
Levi Lincoln Sr., a prominent Worcester lawyer, he studied law and entered the state legislature in 1812 as a
Democratic-Republican. He supported the
War of 1812 (a minority position in
Federalist-dominated Massachusetts) and opposed the
Hartford Convention. Over the next ten years his politics moderated, and he was elected governor in 1825 in a nonpartisan landslide after serving one year on the
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Lincoln oversaw significant economic development in Massachusetts during his tenure and issued the first-ever
veto by a Massachusetts governor. Lincoln and
Daniel Webster were leading forces in the foundation of the
National Republican (later
Whig) Party in Massachusetts, which dominated state politics until the 1850s. (Full article...)
Thomas Danforth (baptized November 20, 1623 – November 5, 1699) was a politician, magistrate, and landowner in the
Massachusetts Bay Colony. A conservative
Puritan, he served for many years as one of the colony's councilors and magistrates, generally leading opposition to attempts by the English kings to assert control over the colony.
He accumulated land in the central part of the colony that eventually became a portion of
Framingham, Massachusetts. His government roles included administration of territory in present-day
Maine that was purchased by the colony. (Full article...)
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Alice May Brock (born February 28, 1941) is an American artist, occasional author and former restaurateur. A resident of
Massachusetts for her entire adult life, Brock owned and operated three restaurants in the
Berkshires—The Back Room, Take-Out Alice and Alice's at Avaloch—in succession between 1965 and 1979. The first of these served as the inspiration for
Arlo Guthrie's 1967 song "
Alice's Restaurant", which in turn inspired a 1969
film of the same name. (Full article...)
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The regimental monument of the 22nd Massachusetts on Sickles Road, near the Wheatfield, on the
Gettysburg Battlefield
Detail of McClary and Knowlton from
Trumbull painting. McClary is standing behind Thomas Knowlton, holding musket. Major McClary was the last American soldier to fall during the Battle of Bunker Hill.
Andrew McClary (1730 – June 17, 1775) was an Irish soldier and
major in the
Continental Army during the
American Revolution. McClary was born in
Ulster, Ireland and came to
colonial America with his parents at age sixteen where they lived on a farm in
New Hampshire. Here the McClary family built a local tavern, where town meetings were also held. Many of New Hampshire's prominent and influential men had come from the McClary family. In session Andrew McClary had also become the
Town Clerk and soon a notable community leader during the years before the revolution. In the mid 1700s New Hampshire frontier McClary gained much of his field experience leading expeditions against hostile Indians in the area.
Just before the revolution McClary planned and led an attack on a British supply depot at the castle at
Portsmouth. McClary was said to have been a natural leader and one who greatly inspired morale among the New Hampshire militia. During the revolution he assembled a company of men in New Hampshire and marched over seventy miles to Boston and fought at the
Battle of Bunker Hill. During the retreat he was the last soldier to leave the battle site. Soon after he was killed when he returned to the site to survey British activity, the last American soldier to die during the battle. (Full article...)
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The Audubon Road shuttle – the last portion of the line to operate – on Boylston Street around 1934
First proposed in the mid-1890s to aid development of the newly created Fenway–Kenmore area, the line opened in July 1900. Service initially ran between
Park Street station and Cypress Street Carhouse; service was extended west to Chestnut Hill later in 1900. The east end of the route was cut back to
Massachusetts station in 1925. The next year, the Ipswich Street line and the
Huntington Avenue line swapped western terminals, with Ipswich Street service again running to Cypress Street. The west end of service was cut back to
Brookline Village in 1932, and cut further to a short
Audubon Road–Massachusetts shuttle in mid-1933. The shuttle was abandoned entirely in July 1934. (Full article...)
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Southwest Corridor Park as seen from Ruggles Street looking south.
The Elihu Akin House is a house in
Dartmouth, Massachusetts, United States. It was built in 1762 by carpenter Jon Mosher. The house was later owned by the Akins, who were a prominent local family; Elihu Akin moved into the house after his own former home had been burnt in
Grey's raid during the
American Revolutionary War. At the start of the 21st century, the house was extensively renovated. The Dartmouth Heritage Preservation Trust and the town of Dartmouth now own the house. (Full article...)
Godsmack is an American
rock band founded in 1995 by singer
Sully Erna and bassist
Robbie Merrill. The band has released eight
studio albums, one
EP, two
compilations, three
video albums, and thirty-four
singles. Erna and Merrill recruited local friend and guitarist Lee Richards and drummer
Tommy Stewart to complete the band's lineup. In 1996,
Tony Rombola replaced Richards, as the band's guitarist. In 1998, Godsmack released their
self-titled debut album, a remastered version of the band's self-released debut, All Wound Up.... The album was distributed by
Universal/
Republic Records and shipped four million copies in the United States. In 2001, the band contributed the track "Why" to the Any Given Sunday soundtrack. After two years of touring, the band released Awake. Although the album was a commercial success, it failed to match the sales of Godsmack. In 2002, Stewart left the band due to personal differences, and was replaced by
Shannon Larkin.
The band's third album, Faceless (2003), debuted at number one on the US
Billboard 200. In 2004, Godsmack released an acoustic-based EP titled The Other Side. The EP debuted at number five on the Billboard 200 and was certified gold by the
RIAA. The band contributed the track "Bring It On" to the Madden 2006 football game in 2005; this track is not featured on any known album or compilation. The band released its fourth studio album, IV, in 2006. IV was the band's second release to debut at number one, and has since been certified platinum. After touring in support of IV for over a year, Godsmack released a
greatest hits album called Good Times, Bad Times... Ten Years of Godsmack. The album included every Godsmack single (with the exception of "
Bad Magick"), a cover of the
Led Zeppelin song "
Good Times Bad Times" and a
DVD of the band's acoustic performance at the
House of Blues in
Las Vegas,
Nevada. (Full article...)
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The territory of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, one of the fifty United States, was settled in the 17th century by several different English colonies. The territories claimed or administered by these colonies encompassed a much larger area than that of the modern state, and at times included areas that are now within the jurisdiction of other
New England states or of the Canadian provinces of
New Brunswick and
Nova Scotia. Some colonial land claims extended all the way to the
Pacific Ocean.
The first permanent settlement was the
Plymouth Colony (1620), and the second major settlement was the
Massachusetts Bay Colony at
Salem in 1629. Settlements that failed or were merged into other colonies included the failed
Popham Colony (1607) on the coast of Maine, and the
Wessagusset Colony (1622–23) in
Weymouth, Massachusetts, whose remnants were folded into the Plymouth Colony. The Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies coexisted until 1686, each electing its own governor annually. Governance of both colonies was dominated by a relatively small group of magistrates, some of whom governed for many years. The
Dominion of New England was established in 1686 which covered the territory of those colonies, as well as that of
New Hampshire,
Connecticut, and
Rhode Island. In 1688, it was further extended to include
New York and
East and
West Jersey. The Dominion was extremely unpopular in the colonies, and it was disbanded when its royally appointed governor Sir
Edmund Androswas arrested and sent back to England in the wake of the 1688
Glorious Revolution. (Full article...)
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This list of birds of Massachusetts includes
species documented in the
U.S. state of
Massachusetts and accepted by the Massachusetts Avian Records Committee (MARC). As of July 2023, there are 516 species included in the official list. Of them, 194 are on the review list (see below), six have been
introduced to North America, three are
extinct, and one has been
extirpated. An additional seven species are on a supplemental list of birds whose origin is uncertain. An additional accidental species has been added from another source.
This list is presented in the
taxonomic sequence of the Check-list of North and Middle American Birds, 7th edition through the 62nd Supplement, published by the
American Ornithological Society (AOS). Common and scientific names are also those of the Check-list, except that the common names of families are from the
Clements taxonomy because the AOS list does not include them. (Full article...)
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The
U.S. state of
Massachusetts has 14
counties, though eight of these fourteen county governments were abolished between 1997 and 2000. The counties in the southeastern portion of the state retain county-level local government (Barnstable,
Bristol, Dukes, Norfolk, Plymouth) or, in one case, (
Nantucket County) consolidated city-county government. Vestigial judicial and law enforcement districts still follow county boundaries even in the counties whose county-level government has been disestablished, and the counties are still generally recognized as geographic entities if not political ones. Three counties (Hampshire, Barnstable, and Franklin) have formed new county regional compacts to serve as a form of regional governance. (Full article...)
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The
Boston Red Sox are a
Major League Baseball (MLB) team based in
Boston,
Massachusetts. From
1912 to the present, the Red Sox have played in
Fenway Park. The "Red Sox" name originates from the iconic uniform feature. They are sometimes
nicknamed the "BoSox", a combination of "Boston" and "Sox" (as opposed to the
"ChiSox"), the "Crimson Hose", and "the Olde Towne Team". Most fans simply refer to them as the Sox.
One of the
American League's eight charter franchises, the club was founded in Boston in
1901. They were a dominant team in the early 20th century, defeating the
Pittsburgh Pirates in the first
World Series in
1903. They won four more championships by
1918, and then went into one of the longest championship
droughts in baseball history. Many attributed the phenomenon to the "
Curse of the Bambino" said to have been caused by the trade of
Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees in
1920. The drought was ended and the "curse" reversed in
2004, when the team won their sixth World Series championship. Championships in
2007 and
2013 followed. Every home game from May 15, 2003, through April 10, 2013, was sold out—a span of 820 games over nearly ten years. The team most recently won the World Series in
2018, the ninth championship in franchise history. (Full article...)
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Boston Latin School is a
publicexam school located in
Boston, Massachusetts, that was founded in 1635. It is the first public school and the oldest existing school in the United States.
The school's first class included nine students; the school now has 2,400 pupils drawn from all parts of Boston. Its graduates have included four
Harvard presidents, eight
Massachusetts state governors, and five
signers of the
United States Declaration of Independence, as well as several preeminent architects, a leading art historian, a notable naturalist and the conductors of the
New York Philharmonic and
Boston Pops orchestras. There are also several notable non-graduate alumni, including
Louis Farrakhan, a leader of the
Nation of Islam. Boston Latin admitted only male students at its founding in 1635. The school's first female student was admitted in the nineteenth century. In 1972, Boston Latin admitted its first co-educational class. (Full article...)
Boston, the capital of the
U.S. state of
Massachusetts and the largest city in
New England, is home to 555 completed
high-rises, 37 of which stand taller than 400 feet (122 m). The city's
skyscrapers and high-rises are concentrated along the roughly 2.5 mile
High Spine, which runs from the
Back Bay to the
Financial District and
West End, while bypassing the surrounding low-rise residential neighborhoods. The tallest structure in Boston is the 60-
story200 Clarendon, better known to locals as the John Hancock Tower, which rises 790 feet (241 m) in the Back Bay district. It is also the tallest building in New England and the
80th-tallest building in the United States. The second-tallest building in Boston is the
Prudential Tower, which rises 52 floors and 749 feet (228 m). At the time of the Prudential Tower's completion in 1964, it stood as the tallest building in North America outside of
New York City.
Boston's history of skyscrapers began with the completion in 1893 of the 13-story
Ames Building, which is considered the city's first high-rise. Boston went through a major building boom in the 1960s and 1970s, resulting in the construction of over 20 skyscrapers, including 200 Clarendon and the Prudential Tower. The city is the site of 25 skyscrapers that rise at least 492 feet (150 m) in height, more than any other city in
New England. , the skyline of Boston is ranked 10th in the United States and 79th in the world with 57 buildings rising at least 330 feet (100 m) in height. (Full article...)
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The
Boston Reds were a
Major League Baseball franchise that played in the
Players' League (PL) in 1890, and one season in the
American Association (AA) in 1891. In both seasons, the Reds were their league's champion, making them the second team to win back-to-back championships in two different leagues. The first franchise to accomplish this feat was the
Brooklyn Bridegrooms, who won the AA championship in 1889 and the
National League (NL) championship in 1890. The Reds played their home games at the
Congress Street Grounds.
The Reds were an instant success on the field and in the public's opinion. The team signed several top-level players, and they played in a larger, more comfortable and modern ballpark than the
Boston Beaneaters, the popular and well established cross-town rival. Player signings that first year included future
Hall of FamersKing Kelly,
Dan Brouthers, and
Charles Radbourn, along with other veterans such as
Hardy Richardson,
Matt Kilroy,
Harry Stovey, and
Tom Brown. The PL ended after one season, leaving most of its teams without a league. (Full article...)
Officially known as the "First-Year Player Draft", the draft is MLB's primary mechanism for assigning amateur baseball players from high schools, colleges, and other amateur baseball clubs to its teams. The draft order is determined based on the previous season's standings, with the team possessing the worst record receiving the first pick. In addition, teams that lost
free agents in the previous off-season may be awarded
compensatory or supplementary picks. (Full article...)
, there are 136 active stations on twelve lines, two of which have branches. 110 active stations are
accessible; 26 are not. Six additional stations (
Prides Crossing,
Mishawum,
Hastings,
Silver Hill,
Plimptonville, and
Plymouth) are indefinitely closed due to service cuts during the COVID-19 pandemic. One station (
Winchester Center) is temporarily closed due to structural deterioration. Six additional stations are under construction as part of the
South Coast Rail project; several other stations are planned. (Full article...)
The following are images from various Massachusetts-related articles on Wikipedia.
Image 1Major boundaries of Massachusetts Bay and neighboring colonial claims in the 17th century and 18th century; modern state boundaries are partially overlaid for context (from History of Massachusetts)
Image 4Fenway Park, the home stadium of the
Boston Red Sox. Opened in 1912, Fenway Park is the
oldest professional baseball stadium still in use. (from Boston)
Image 5Map showing a
British tactical evaluation of Boston in 1775 (from Boston)
Image 6Boston Latin School was established in 1635 and is the oldest public high school in the U.S. (from Boston)
Image 8Certificate of government of Massachusetts Bay acknowledging loan of £20 to state treasury by Seth Davenport. September 1777 (from History of Massachusetts)
Image 12An
MBTA Red Line train departing Boston for
Cambridge. Over 1.3 million Bostonians utilize the city's buses and trains daily as of 2013. (from Boston)
Image 13Map of Boston-area universities (from Boston)
Image 14An 1877 panoramic map of Boston (from Boston)
Image 15Packed circles diagram showing estimates of the ethnic origins of people in Boston in 2021 (from Boston)
Image 16Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It, an 1860 photograph by
James Wallace Black, was the first recorded aerial photograph. (from Boston)
Image 17Boston and its neighbors as seen from
Sentinel-2 with
Boston Harbor (center). Boston itself lies on the southern bank of the Charles River. On the river's northern bank, the outlines of Cambridge and Watertown can be seen; to the west are Brookline and Newton; to the south lie Quincy and Milton. (from Boston)
... that in 1875, Robert J. Fulton moved Boston College by 60 feet (18 m)?
... that The Essex Gazette was established in 1768, becoming
Salem's first newspaper, and was used as a voice against British rule just before the
American Revolution?
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