A History of the Town of Northfield, Massachusetts:
A History of the Town of Northfield, Massachusetts:

Author: Josiah Howard Temple

Publisher:

Published: 2017-08-27

Total Pages: 666

ISBN-13: 9781522206576

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Hardcover reprint of the original 1875 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9. No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Temple, J. H. (Josiah Howard). A History Of The Town Of Northfield, Massachusetts: For 150 Years, With An Account Of The Prior Occupation Of The Territory By The Squakheags: And With Family Genealogies. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Temple, J. H. (Josiah Howard). A History Of The Town Of Northfield, Massachusetts: For 150 Years, With An Account Of The Prior Occupation Of The Territory By The Squakheags: And With Family Genealogies, . Albany, N.Y.: J. Munsell, 1875. Subject: Indians Of North America Massachusetts

A History of the Town of Northfield, Massachusetts, for 150 Years
A History of the Town of Northfield, Massachusetts, for 150 Years

Author: Josiah Howard Temple

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-09-12

Total Pages: 670

ISBN-13: 9781333562731

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Excerpt from A History of the Town of Northfield, Massachusetts, for 150 Years: With an Account of the Prior Occupation of the Territory by the Squakheags; And With Family Genealogies The field of these researches is to a great extent new ground. NO full and connected account has been published of the events which transpired in this part of the Connecticut valley during King Philip's war, nor of the subsequent struggles with the savages up to the close of the war of 1722-26. The histories of the two succeed ing French and Indian wars are more full, but are defective in dates, and in details of local skirmishes. Almost nothing has been known of the antecedent Indian occupa tion, or of the first attempts made by the whites to gain a foothold here. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Northfield
Northfield

Author: Marie Booth Ferré

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2014-08-04

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1439646597

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Northfields mountains, abundant forests, and rich agricultural fields along the Connecticut River sustained native inhabitants for centuries before the English settled in the area known as Squakheag in 1713. Incorporated in 1723, Northfield became a crossroads for travel and commerce, supporting ferries, taverns, mills, and other farm-related businesses. Elegant Federal-style homes crafted in the 1800s by the Stearns brothers still line the iconic Main Street. Northfield native Dwight L. Moody, a famous evangelist, founded area schools and summer conferences. In the late 19th century, the quiet farming town became heaven on earth to Moodys followers, who arrived by the hundreds each summer seeking spiritual renewal and relief from the cities. The railroad brought visitors to the first American youth hostel and to the popular Northfield Inn and Chateau, where many permanent residents found employment. Around Northfield, Queen Annestyle homes provided lodging for boarders, while tearooms, milliners, liveries, and grocers served visitors. Today, Northfields vitality and spirit endures, forged by education, hard work, civic engagement, and perseverance.

Firsting and Lasting
Firsting and Lasting

Author: Jean M. Obrien

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 2010-05-10

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 1452915253

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Across nineteenth-century New England, antiquarians and community leaders wrote hundreds of local histories about the founding and growth of their cities and towns. Ranging from pamphlets to multivolume treatments, these narratives shared a preoccupation with establishing the region as the cradle of an Anglo-Saxon nation and the center of a modern American culture. They also insisted, often in mournful tones, that New England’s original inhabitants, the Indians, had become extinct, even though many Indians still lived in the very towns being chronicled. InFirsting and Lasting, Jean M. O’Brien argues that local histories became a primary means by which European Americans asserted their own modernity while denying it to Indian peoples. Erasing and then memorializing Indian peoples also served a more pragmatic colonial goal: refuting Indian claims to land and rights. Drawing on more than six hundred local histories from Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island written between 1820 and 1880, as well as censuses, monuments, and accounts of historical pageants and commemorations, O’Brien explores how these narratives inculcated the myth of Indian extinction, a myth that has stubbornly remained in the American consciousness. In order to convince themselves that the Indians had vanished despite their continued presence, O’Brien finds that local historians and their readers embraced notions of racial purity rooted in the century’s scientific racism and saw living Indians as “mixed” and therefore no longer truly Indian. Adaptation to modern life on the part of Indian peoples was used as further evidence of their demise. Indians did not—and have not—accepted this effacement, and O’Brien details how Indians have resisted their erasure through narratives of their own. These debates and the rich and surprising history uncovered in O’Brien’s work continue to have a profound influence on discourses about race and indigenous rights.