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School=Groton School is a private Episcopal college preparatory boarding school located in Groton, Massachusetts, United States. It enrolls approximately 372 boys and girls, from the eighth through twelfth grades.The school is a member of the Independent School League and is widely recognized as one of the most selective, elite, exclusive boarding schools in New England and one of the world's t...
Harvard University is an American private Ivy League research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation (officially The President and Fellows of Harvard College) chartered in the country. Harvard's history, influence, and ...
Many of the Massachusetts Bay Colony's original settlers arrived from England in the 1630s through the ports of Lynn and Salem. In 1639 some citizens of Lynn petitioned the government of the colony for a "place for an inland plantation". They were initially granted six square miles, followed by an additional four. The first settlement in this grant was at first called "Lynn Village" and was loc...
The county was created by the Massachusetts General Court on May 10, 1643, when it was ordered that "the whole plantation within this jurisdiction be divided into four sheires". Middlesex initially contained Charlestown, Cambridge, Watertown, Sudbury, Concord, Woburn, Medford, Wayland, and Reading.[4] In the late 19th century and early 20th century, Boston annexed several adjacent cities and to...
Wikipedia Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and functioned as a female coordinate institution for the all-male Harvard College. It was also one of the Seven Sisters colleges, among which it shared with Bryn Mawr College the popular reputation of having a particularly intellectual and independent-minded student body. Radcliffe conferred Radcliffe C...
This project is for those who were born, lived, and died in Middlesex County, Connecticut. Middlesex County was formed from parts of Hartford and New London counties. Adjacent counties Hartford County (north) New London County (east) New Haven County (west) Suffolk County, New York (south) Cities, Towns and Communities: Centerbrook - Chester - Clinton - Cobalt - Cromwell - Deep River - ...
Wesleyan University Wikipedia Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college in Middletown, Connecticut, USA, founded in 1831. Wesleyan is the only Baccalaureate College in the nation that emphasizes undergraduate instruction in the arts and sciences, also provides graduate research in many academic disciplines, and grants PhD degrees primarily in the sciences and mathematics. Wesleyan...
Wikipedia Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1861 in response to the increasing industrialization of the United States, MIT adopted a European polytechnic university model and stressed laboratory instruction in applied science and engineering. Researchers worked on comp...
Wikipedia =Brandeis University /ˈbrændaɪs/ is an American private research university in Waltham, Massachusetts, 9 miles (14 km) west of Boston.It was founded in 1948 as a non-sectarian Jewish community-sponsored coeducational institution on the site of the former Middlesex University. The university is named after Hon. Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Cour...
Official Web Site =This project is a table of contents for all projects relating to this County of Virginia. Please feel free to add profiles of anyone who was born, lived or died in this county.
Wikipedia Tufts University is a private research university located in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. The university is organized into ten schools, including two undergraduate programs and eight graduate divisions, on four campuses in Massachusetts and the French Alps. The university emphasizes active citizenship and public service in all of its disciplines...
This project is for those interred in the Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. From Find a Grave : Bostonians founded Mount Auburn in 1831 for both practical and aesthetic reasons: to solve an urban land use problem created by an increasing number of burials in the city and to create a tranquil and beautiful place where families could commemorate their loved ones w...
Killingworth is a town in Middlesex County, Connecticut, United States. The town is part of the Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region. The population was 6,174 at the 2020 United States Census.[2] History Killingworth was established from the area called Hammonasset, taken from the local Native American tribe of the same name. The area originally incorporated the area of the present ...
Land was first occupied by a minimum of three Indian Tribes. These tribes included the Wangunks, Mohegans, and Nehantiks. The land which is now Haddam and East Haddam was purchased in 1662 for 30 coats, which was worth about 100 dollars at the time. In 1669 highways were established. The first families established homes along Creeks Row. These families included John Bates, Cone, David Brainerd,...
Evergreen Cemetery is located on Green Hill Road in Killingworth, CT. The cemetery is a non-profit organization. Evergreen Cemetery was established in 1856 by local residents. The cemetery is non-denominational and is open daily from sunrise to sunset. Evergreen Cemetery Association This cemetery is located on Green Hill Road, Killingworth, Middlesex County, Connecticut. It's also known as...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Middlesex County, New Jersey.= Official Website =The county was primarily settled due to its ideal location near the Raritan River and was established as of March 7, 1683, as part of the Province of East Jersey and was partitioned as of October 31, 1693, into the townships of Piscataway, Perth Amboy, and Woodbridge.=Adjacent Counties...
This cemetery is located on 31 Highland Street, Townsend, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Find a Grave
The town of Billerica was founded from a deed of land from the Shawshin, or Billerica Indians. This site not only looks at the early settlers, but the making of towns that became the culture of America, the United States of America.In 1660, 40 families (mostly from Cambridge, then Woburn) had homes in Billerica. Some are as follows: Champney, Crosby, Danforth, French,Frost, Hamlet, Hide,Hubbard...
This cemetery is located on 410 Main Street, Hudson, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Find a Grave
Chapel Hill – Chauncy Hall School (CH-CH) is an independent, college-preparatory day and boarding school for grades 8 through PG located on a 42-acre campus in Waltham, Massachusetts and founded in 1828. CH-CH is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. Chapel Hill – Chauncy Hall's history involves three schools: Chauncy Hall, Chapel Hill, and the Huntington School. C...
Connecticut State Veterans Cemetery is located in Middletown, Connecticut. Find a Grave
Wikipedia Bentley University is a private university focused on business and located in Waltham, Massachusetts. Bentley University was founded in 1917 as the Bentley School of Accounting and Finance by Harry C. Bentley, who served as the school's president until 1953. In 1961, the college was accredited to confer four-year Bachelor of Science degrees under President Morison, who moved the co...
Lawrence Academy at Groton is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational college preparatory boarding school located in Groton, Massachusetts, in the United States. Founded in 1792 by a group of fifty residents of Groton and Pepperell, Massachusetts as Groton Academy, and chartered in 1793 by Governor John Hancock, Lawrence is the tenth oldest boarding school in the United States, and the third in ...
The Old Burying Ground on King Street is generally referred to as the first town cemetery. A second burial ground, now known as Westlawn Cemetery, was established by the town in 1801. Initially it was used for paupers and others who were not eligible to be buried in the municipal cemetery. Since around 1900 when the Old Burying Ground became full, Westlawn has been the only active municipal cem...
Newton Cemetery resides in Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Though Newton Cemetery was created in 1855, it incorporated older burying grounds within its confines; the earliest graves date from the mid 1770s. Newton is an active cemetery. "The Newton Cemetery has a long historical association with the City of Newton, taking over the function of a non-sectarian burying place from the mun...