If you'd like to talk about your state, my state or heck any state at all head over to our Facebook Group "What Makes Your State Great". We'd love to add your contributions on each state and celebrate our secular nation. As always my facts come from 50states.com.
Hail Massachusetts!
552 original documents pertaining to the Salem witch trials of 1692 have been preserved and are still stored by the Peabody Essex Museum.
This is part one, I recommend the entire series.
Boston built the first subway system in the United States in 1897.
Norfolk County is the birthplace of four United States presidents: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, John Fitzgerald Kennedy and George Herbert Walker Bush.
The American industrial revolution began in Lowell. Lowell was America's first planned industrial city.
The Boston Tea Party reenactment takes place in Boston Harbor every December 16th.
As a kid I loved Schoolhouse Rock. This is the video about the Tea Party.
Milford is known the world over for its unique pink granite, discovered in the 1870's and quarried for many years to grace the exteriors of museums, government buildings, monuments and railroad stations.
The original inhabitants of Massachusetts are:
The Wampanoag tribes (including the Massachusett, Nauset,
Nantucket, Pennacook, Pokanoket, and Pocasset)
The Mohegan tribe (including the Nipmuc and Pequot)
The Mohican tribe (including the Pocumtuc)
This is a great video about the Wampanoag tribe.
Sending love and protection to the great state of Massachusetts!
Namaste & Blessed Be!
Sosanna
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