Yankeetowns

29/01/2024

Thank you for making our post from March 11, 2019 about Ware, Massachusetts the most successful in audience response in our page's history.

We recently revisited Ware again and photographed the 1885 Town Hall from Veterans Park.

We took the view east up the Ware River that included the previous mills including Quabbin Wire & Cable.

We took photos of Nenameseck Park, which dates from about 1844 with funding from the Ware mills, and a 2013 renovation.

The 1883 Library now has a new sign, taken looking west.

We found the Workshop13 on Church Street. The building is a renovated church from near 1900.

We liked the Crystal Spring Dairy sign on West Street, a business dating from 1958.

Nearby was Rollaway Lanes, a candlepin bowling alley from 1960. We liked the sign and the hill in the background.

Finally, we found the Quabbin Park Cemetery which contains graves that were relocated from the towns lost to the Quabbin Reservoir: Enfield, Greenwich, Dana, and Prescott. Based on the World War I plaque, Enfield was the largest town lost. The building was completed in 1941. The cemetery was built in 1932.

Good Civil War memorial from Enfield, the town that is just north of Ware at the southern area of the reservoir.

I found a web page "Quabbin Park Cemetery Tour" which said that the green door was the "Receiving Vault".

Everyone

18/11/2023

This big blue Adirondack Chair is located in the center of Provincetown, near the Town Hall, Monument behind the tree, and Sons of Provincetown World War I memorial.

Bubala's is a popular restaurant. T-shirts for sale in shop window.

The Whaler's Wharf was rebuilt in 2001 after a fire in 1998 and it is an impressive retail structure to tour.

The Highland Lighthouse in North Truro dates from 1857. It had been moved inland due to erosion in 1996. One has to park at the Highland Golf course lot, and walk past the lighthouse to the end. The park does not offer a view of the beach, but the classic view of the light.

Longnook Beach is accessible outside the peak summer season and the beach offers the highest sand beach in the Cape Cod National Seashore.

Block & Tackle restaurant in South Wellfleet. The specialty is smoked food, such as pulled pork.

24/10/2023

Manchester CT also has the Firefighters Memorial Garden from 2002 that has a World Trade Center memorial with two twin steel beams. There are memorial for fire fighters outside of Manchester including the one for New Haven.

North Manchester's Depot Square has the Bernard C. Apel building which was an opera house from 1888 to 1899 when a fire forced changes to the building.

The rest of this post has photographs of buildings and businesses in the area, with the last one addressing the wars occurring in 2023.

Manchester Barbecue Pellets has corporate offices in the Apel building and does its manufacturing in the former livestock feed plant in the background.

In the area of Oakland Street, we found that John T. Robertson started the Orford Soap company in about 1891 that eventually became Bon Ami soaps which is Manchester's second most famous manufacturer besides Cheney silk.

24/10/2023

Jack traveled to Connecticut on October 22, 2023 - had a tour of downtown Manchester in Connecticut. This is a large town of 60,000 people. In his limited time, a number of historic sites were found, although there is much more of the town left to explore, including the Cheney Silk Mills from 100 years ago. The Town is known as the Silk City. The Cheney family helped to finance the historic Center district dating from 1890-1940.

A second post will follow. The Town is accessible from Interstate 84 or Interstate 384 to reach the Cheney Mills.

07/07/2023

The Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum opened in 1903 and the new glass addition was completed in 2012. The Natalie Jeremijenko Independence exhibit is a mix of human design and using plants for decoration.

The School of the Museum of Fine Arts formally became part of Tufts University in 2016 after being at its location since 1927. An outside mural and rhinoceros exhibit are featured.

The Massachusetts College of Art & Design (MassArt) has a new 2012 Residence Hall. The cell phone photo almost makes the building look like it is on an abandoned street, but in reality the building is tall and dominates Huntington Avenue there.

The Wentworth Institute of Technology is also in the area as we learned that they call themselves the Leopards.

The summer sun allowed a photo of the 1933 Engine 37/Ladder 26 City of Boston fire station in good light.

There are wooden fire escapes and decorative eagles at a nearby residential building.

We found the Pozen Center, Studio for Interrelated Media which is part of MassArt. The building dates from 1907 as part of the Boston Girl's Latin School.

19/12/2022

Stonington Borough is a historic seaside village in the southeast corner of Connecticut.

The borough which is a part of the Town of Stonington is on a peninsula, which has a lighthouse on its southern tip. The village is within 5 miles of Watch Hill, Rhode Island, and Fishers Island, New York.

It is easier to tour the village off season due to limited parking.

We found Cannon Square which memorializes a battle with the British Navy during the War of 1812.

There are plenty of historic sites to photograph and we are presenting some of them. The Holy Ghost Society dates from 1836 as it commemorates Portuguese sailors who visited Stonington. Water Street has many shops to explore. The 1900 Library overlooks Wadawanuck Square, a village green having nearby stately homes. The United Church of Christ is in the background.

Stonington is also know for its harbor, having fishing boats, and pleasure boats. Jack's father had a lifelong friend with the late Jackson P. Sumner and we found his building. Mr. Sumner's sailboat was the "Stardust".

30/11/2022

The Town of Sprague, Connecticut features the village of Baltic. The former governor of Rhode Island, William Sprague III built a cotton mill on the Shetucket River. Sadly the mill is gone but the village became a historic district in 1987.

The pictures are presented in the order they were taken.

St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception Church was founded in 1887 and the structure was built in 1911.

In 1898, the Roderick Block was built by Raymond Jodoin who was a major landowner in the area. It is at the corner of W. Main St. and High St.

High St. still has the historic row houses as well as a ghost sign.

We linked the paint job at Dimitri's Pizza.

The Baltic Fire Department is featured next, followed by one of the remaining mill structures in Baltic. We wish we had more time in the village.

Near the Norwich border is the village of Versailles, the location of the final two photos. The Dark Manor was closed but fun to see on October 30. The stone building is from 1900.

21/11/2022

We visited Scotland, Connecticut on October 30, 2022. The town is located in a national corridor called the "Last Green Valley", roughly from Norwich CT to southern Worcester County Mass.

Scotland is a farming community which is well preserved and I did not find a mill village. The town green could pass for a small town in Northern New England.

Scotland was part of Windham until 1857. The Congregational Church dates from 1842, and the chapel to the left of the church had been the Town Hall and joined the church in 1867.

The Town Hall was originally a school and dates from 1896.

The carriage house left of the auto shop is from 1800 per an online post. The store is from a former house from approx. 1890.
The Catholic church in the background is from 1960.

Samuel Huntington was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and was the President of the Continental Congress 1779-1781, perhaps the first chief executive of the United States prior to George Washington's presidency.

The House was built in 1723 and Samuel Huntington was born there in 1731.

There is a barn next door to the Huntington house.

13/08/2022

This looks like an interesting event

Join Town officials for pizza and a discussion about the future of the Former IP Mill on August 22 at 7PM

https://www.erving-ma.gov/home/news/ip-mill-redevelopment-discussion

25/07/2022

Jack who takes our photos has had to be in Florida in recent months, and last week, with the temperatures in the low 90's with the subtropical sun, he found a worthy historic site.

Dubois Park is on the South bank of the Jupiter Inlet.

Harry Dubois grew pineapples near this park in the 1890's and there is a mysterious old pineapple storage shed that I never located.

The house is on a "midden" , a hill consisting of shells, 20 feet high, built by ancient residents of the Jupiter area, with artifacts dating back to 300 AD.

The park is know for having a calm, salt water swimming hole were there is a sandy beach, popular with the public.

The park offers beautiful banyan trees.

The wide angle photo of the inlet and parking lot provides a sense of place.

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A few miles south is the Juno Beach Pier. Built relatively recently in 1997, it provides the community a location for salt water fishing in the ocean. It is 990 feet long.