Lost Massachusetts

In 1834 Boston's growing Irish Catholic immigrant community met the fiery resistance of a suspicious native Protestant Yankee mob.

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Sights and sites to see in an and around Worcester Mass. that may puzzle or intrigue you.

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Mysterious (or not so much) manmade(?) cave in Upton - Attributed to various groups but still unsolved, the Upton Chamber is one of hundreds of structures throughout the region with an unknown past.

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Weird beard. The story of a persecuted follicle fashion and an unofficial community that vanished before it could become a real town. Also, we talk to a born-and-raised son of Leominster. 

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Norton Furnace (Meadowbrook) and the Copper Works Now a quiet residential area with a hiking trail, the lower portion of Norton was once home to a dense collection of industrial factories.

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Working with boy scouts to find what is hidden beneath this spacious state part on the south shore...

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The Long Ditch and Mother Brook are the first man-made industrial water ditch projects in America. You can canoe/kayak or hike this area that holds a critical part of our early history.

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Mysteriously named and somewhat dreamlike to match, Questing Mass has long history that could be as elusive as the monster it is named after. 

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The cutoff community of Boston Corner was eventually literally cut off from Massachusetts and added to New York. Hidden behind the Taconic Mountains, beyond the reach of Massachusetts law, the Mount Washington section called Boston Corners become a haven for gamblers, bootleggers and horse thieves.

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Within Rutland State Park there are the ruins of an abandoned state prison farm camp and former tuberculosis hospital. Between 1903 and 1934 this was home to hundreds of drunkards, vagrants, tramps and vagabonds, The growing power of the temperance movement put many drinkers on the outside of society.

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