Lost Massachusetts

By Garth BruenHistory

Lost Massachusetts episodes

August 20 Nonesuch, Mass. E140
More mysterious places at the Edge of Town, a tranquil pond with a name that either claims it does not exist or that it is the best place: Nonesuch...
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9 min
August 12 Edge of Town E139
There is a Lost place near you...in every direction...you can find it at the Edge of Town...
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27 min
August 11 A Pickle for the Knowing Ones E138
To mankind at Large the time is Com at Last the grat day of Regoising what is that why I will tell you thous three kings is Rased Rased you meane should know Rased on the first Royal Arch in the world olmost Not quite but very hiw up upon so thay are good mark to be scene so the womans Lik to see the frount and all people Loves to see them as the quakers will Com and peape slyly and feele glad and say houe the doue frind father Jorge washeton is in the senter king Addoms is at the Rite hand the present king at the Left hand father gorge with his hat on the other hats of the middel king with his sword king Addoms with his Cane in a grand poster Adtetoude turning his fass towards the first king as if they was on sum politicks king our present king he is stands hearing being younger and very deafe in short being one grat felosfer Looks well East & west and North & south deafe & very deafe the god of Natur has dun very much for our present king and all our former ones they are all good I want them to Live for Ever and I beleave thay will it is hard work to be A king—I say it is hardar than tilling the ground I know it is for I find it is hard work to be A Lord I dont desier the sound but to pleas the peopel at Large Let it gou to brak the way it dus for Asort ment to help a good Lafe to Cour the sick spleney goutey dul frames Lik my selfe with the goute and so on make merry a Chealy Christen is for me only be onnest No matter what they worshep son moune or stars or there wife or miss if onnest Live forever [8]money wont gitt thous figers so fast as I wish I have sent to Leg horn for many mr bourr is one Amonks others I sent in the grand Crecham thous 3 kings Are plane white colow at present the Royal Arch & figers cost 39 pound wate silver the hiest Councaton order in the world so it is sade by the knowing one I have only 4 Lions & 1 Lam up the spred Eagel has bin up 3 years upon the Coupelay I have 13 billors front in strat Row for 13 states when we begun 3 in the Rear 15 foot hie 4 more on the grass see 2 the same hath at the Rite of the grand Arch 2 at the left wing 15 foot hie the Arch 17 foot hie the my hous is 3 sorey upwards of 290 feet round the hous Nater has formed the ground Eaquel to what you would wish for the Art by man Eaquel to a Solomun the onerabel Jonathan Jackson one of the first in this Country for tast borne A grat man by Nater then the best Lurning what sot me fored for my plan having so gran spot the hool of the world Cant Excead this to thous that dont know would think I was Like halfe the world A Lier I have traveled good deale but old steady men sayeth it is the first that it is the first best in this Contry & others Contrey I tell you this the trouth that None of you grat men wodent be A frunted at my preseadens & I spare Now Cost in the work I have the tempel of Reason in my garding 3 years past with a toume under it on the Eage of the grass see it cost 98 gineys besides the Coffen panted whit in side and out side tuched with green Nobel trimings uncommon Lock so I can tak the kee in side and haye fier works in the toume pipes and tobacker & A speaking trumpet and & bibel to Read & sum good songs - TD
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9 min
August 07 Rattlesnake Gutter E136
Mysterious flooded road with a strange name...
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10 min
August 07 Hillsboro, Mass. E135
Drive too fast down Depot Road and you will miss the town...
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8 min
August 07 Bristol, RI E134
You've seen this place in a dream, maybe a dream of Lost Massachusetts...
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6 min
August 06 Attack of U-156 - Lost Cable Part Three E133
The only attack on the Continental U.S. during World War I happened in Massachusetts...
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14 min
August 05 Toy Town, Mass. E132
Want to see a giant rocking horse? Go to Toy Town!
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8 min
August 05 Old Stone Church E131
What's inside the Empty Space?
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9 min
August 05 Uncle Sam E130
Uncle Sam was a real person...and he was from Massachusetts...
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7 min

About Lost Massachusetts

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Here we rediscover the vanished and forgotten places in one of America's oldest states, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It could be a ghost town, it could be a former neighborhood reclaimed for…