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Video The Importance of Culp's Hill in the Battle of Gettysburg
Join Charlie Fennell, Licensed Battlefield Guide in Gettysburg, as he bring us up to date on the story of Culp’s Hill.
Melissa Davenport Berry
Jun 12, 20211 min read


Melissa Davenport Berry
Jun 12, 20210 min read


Ida Whiteside Women American Astronomer
Ida Whiteside daughter of Albert Whiteside (1846-1916) and Nellie McClellan Pease (1862-1935) born in Cambridge, New York. Records on...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Jun 12, 20211 min read


Photo Loring Estate Beverly Massachusetts 1858
Looking Outward from the Barn, Loring Estate, Beverly Farms, Massachusetts 1858 Artist : Samuel Masury, born Salem, MA 1818-died 1874...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Jun 12, 20211 min read


Photo Outside the Eagle Hotel Charlestown New Hampshire
Eagle Hotel Charlestown, New Hampshire. Artist : Gotthelf Pach, active 1880s---Pach Brothers, founded ca. 1866 Smithsonian American Art...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Jun 12, 20211 min read


Andrew Jackson Pope of Maine
Andrew Jackson Pope was a “State of Mainer”– born in East Machias in 1820 – one of seven sons of Colonel William Pope, a colonel in...
Melissa Davenport Berry
May 27, 20211 min read


PDF File of Historic Cemeteries in Dennis Massachusetts
Baker Family Burying Ground – ca. 1853 Swan River Road, West Dennis Dennis Village Cemetery - 1728 Route 6-A & Old Bass River Road,...
Melissa Davenport Berry
May 27, 20211 min read


Photo Recalling J.G. Guess Store and Pundy's Cafe Baldwin Wisconsin
ca. 1920-ca. 1929 The J.G. Guess Store and Pundy's Cafe shared a building on Main Street which stood in the current First Bank parking...
Melissa Davenport Berry
May 27, 20211 min read


Photo Sarah Batchelor Trask Bates
Sarah Batchelor Trask (1850-1921) born in Danvers, Massachusetts to Alfred Trask and Mary Jane Blackey. Married Roswell D. Bates son of...
Melissa Davenport Berry
May 27, 20211 min read


Some Descendants of William Dickens and Nancy Elizabeth Turner Dickens
PDF by Nyla Creed DePauk
Melissa Davenport Berry
May 25, 20211 min read


California family gathers its history in a coast-to-coast collection of Americana
New England furniture and folk art fill the pool house, at the top of a terraced garden overlooking the residence. The four walnut side...
Melissa Davenport Berry
May 25, 20211 min read


Thomas Gardner Society Newsletter
This one features Quakers in Salem, Massachusetts---Surnames: Gardner, Grafton, Balch, Conant, Freestone, Phelps, Shattuck, Downing,...
Melissa Davenport Berry
May 25, 20211 min read


Debutantes Aristocracy 1939 England and Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy
The Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, the Duke of Wellington and Lady Macmillan recall the debutante season of 1939. They reveal how the...
Melissa Davenport Berry
May 24, 20211 min read


Enoch Toppan was never without a rhyme
The Toppan name is part of Newburyport, Massachusetts history. Several members of this prominent clan served as clergy, doctors, ship...
Melissa Davenport Berry
May 24, 20213 min read


A Succession of Kaleidoscopic Pictures Historical Archaeology Turner House, Salem Massachusetts
Article by Lorinda B.R. Goodwin Northeast Historical Archaeology Volume 23 1994 PDF download
Melissa Davenport Berry
May 24, 20211 min read


VIDEO: The Lure of New England
The Lure Of New England, directed by Bon D. Grussing and produced by Martin Bovey Films in the mid-1940s for the Minneapolis-Moline...
Melissa Davenport Berry
May 24, 20213 min read


Longfellow House in Byfield to Highest Bidder 1909
An article I came across researching the families--The auction announced in 1909 of the Longfellow Home Massachusetts. See PDF file below...
Melissa Davenport Berry
May 2, 20211 min read


Photos of Shelter Island New York Monument Quakers Where Honored
1884 from the Shelter Manor Archives see my story at Genealogybank blog Nathaniel Sylvester, ‘Lord of Shelter’ for 17th Century Quakers A...
Melissa Davenport Berry
May 2, 20211 min read


Antiquarians Debate Over First Church in Salem Massachusetts
Article published in 1901 Mentions Eben Putnam, Old First Church, Salem Massachusetts, David Nichols, Roger Williams, Genealogical...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Apr 25, 20211 min read


Video: Burial Grounds Of Plymouth Colony - A Scituate Historical Society Presentation
The Scituate Historical Society welcomed Hanover Historical Society Executive Director Stephen O'Neill for a presentation on the Burial ...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Apr 25, 20211 min read
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