Historical New England

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Hindenburg Flying over Boston
(c. May 6th, 1937)
📍Boston, Massachusetts

This image was taken just 9 hours before it faced its devastating explosion over New Jersey.

The Hindenburg passes over Boston in 1937 in a rare view of the German airship LZ 129 alongside the Custom House Tower, then the city’s tallest building, capturing a moment when airships represented the height of luxury travel and technological ambition. Its visit drew widespread attention before the era of passenger zeppelins came to an abrupt end shortly after, leaving images like this as lasting records of a brief chapter in aviation history

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George Lincoln Rockwell Discusses His Presidential Campaign
(January 25, 1964)
📍Concord, New Hampshire

Rockwell, of the American Nazi Party, discusses plans with his campaign manager Lynn Giesy, right, in a hotel at Concord, New Hampshire, for entering the New Hampshire presidential preference primary. Looking on is Storm Leader David Peterson of Minneapolis, Minn.

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And Snow it Begins! ❄️
📍Aroostook County, Maine

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John “Mad Jack” Oldham
(b. 1592, d. 1636)

English settler, merchant, and Indian trader, known for his fiery temper. Born in Derbyshire, England, arrived at Plymouth Colony in July 1623 aboard the Anne as an independent adventurer with his wife and sister.

In 1624, he allied with minister John Lyford; together, they held secret meetings, wrote letters to England criticizing the Pilgrim leadership, and stirred factional. Oldham challenged military captain Miles Standish, and drew a knife on him, calling him a “beggarly rascal.” Tried for plotting against the colony’s civil and church. He was banished from Plymouth—ordered to leave at once. Fellow outcast Thomas Morton later dubbed him “Mad Jack” for his quarrelsome nature.

He settled at Nantasket (Hull), traded along the coast, helped found settlement in Wethersfield, Connecticut (1634), served as a Watertown deputy. He was killed by indians aboard his trading vessel near Block Island on 20 July 1636; triggering the Pequot War.

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📍Lakes Region, New Hampshire

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George Lincoln Rockwell
(c. 1938)
📍Providence, Rhode Island

Rockwell at Brown University. Shortly after, he dropped out and joined the U.S. Navy.

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Fisher Ames
(b. April 9, 1758 - d. July 4, 1808)
📍Dedham, Massachusetts

Ames was a Federalist statesman, lawyer, and celebrated orator. He was a Harvard graduate (1774), he practiced law, helped ratify the U.S. Constitution in Massachusetts, and served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1789–1797).

"It has never happened in the world, and it never will, that a democracy has been kept out of the control of the fiercest and most turbulent spirits in the society; they will breathe into it all their own fury, and make it subservient to the worst designs of the worst men." (1805)

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Sunset on Sias Hill Rd.
📍Kokadjo, Maine

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Hartford's First Jew
"David the Jew"

The first Jew on record living in Hartford was named, appropriately enough, “David” – “David The Jew,” to be more precise. David was resident in 1659 – perhaps for a short time only – for, in that same year, he was arrested and fined 20 shillings by the Court of Assistants for “illegal peddling” – meaning he was selling to women and children when the “man of the house” was not at the homestead.

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Good Morning New England
📍Stonington, Connecticut

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Memorial Arch of Tilton
📍Northfield, New Hampshire

The Memorial was supposed to be a giant tombstone for Charles Tilton. Alas, things did not work out that way, and now it’s just a monument, with Tilton being buried nearby in a humble cemetery.

Charles Tilton got rich during the California Gold Rush. When he returned to his hometown of Sanbornton Bridge, NH, he invested heavily in it. So much so in fact, that the residents named the town after him.

Inspired by the Arch of Titus in Rome, Tilton had his own arch built in the early 1880s on a large hill with one of the best views in the area. He planned on being interred in the large, lion-topped, pink-granite sarcophagus between the two columns at its base. He also planned on Northfield, the adjoining town where the hill was actually located, being incorporated into Tilton. However, when Northfield eventually refused, Tilton forsook his finished monument and was buried in Park Cemetery off West Main Street in his beloved Tilton.

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