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Charlestown
Charlestown former city, now part of Boston, Middlesex co., E Mass., on Boston Harbor, between the Mystic and the Charles rivers; settled 1629, included in Boston 1874. The oldest part of Boston, it was the site of the U.S. navy yard (est. 1801, closed 1973) where the U.S.S. Constitution is... Read more |
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Prince Hall
Prince Hall The founder of the first black lodge within the Masonic Order, Prince Hall (c.1735–1807) was a leading black citizen of Boston during the Revolutionary War era. A skilled orator, he pointed to the inherent hypocrisy of a war being waged in the name of freedom by a people that... Read more |
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Boston University
Boston University at Boston, Mass.; coeducational; founded 1839, chartered 1869, first baccalaureate granted 1871. It is composed of 16 schools and colleges. Among its notable research facilities are a medical center (including the schools of medicine and graduate dentistry and university hospital)... Read more |
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Boston Pops Orchestra
BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA Formed: 1885, Boston, Massachusetts Genre: Classical, Pop The Boston Pops is one of the oldest and most venerable musical institutions in the United States. Founded in 1885 for a Promenade Series by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Pops promised Bostonians... Read more |
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Boston Public Library
Boston Public Library founded in 1848, chiefly through the gift of Joshua Bates, and opened to the public in 1854. It is the oldest free public city library supported by taxation in the world and the first to allow its patrons to borrow books and other materials. Its present building on Copley... Read more |
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Solomon Willard
Solomon Willard 1783-1861, American architect and sculptor, b. Petersham, Mass. Arriving in Boston in 1804, he eventually became a leading architect; he both designed and supervised the erection of the Bunker Hill monument. He carved the architectural detail of many Boston buildings, as well as... Read more |
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Henry Cabot Lodge
Henry Cabot Lodge 1850-1924, U.S. Senator (1893-1924), b. Boston. He was admitted to the bar in 1876. Before beginning his long career in the U.S. Senate he edited (1873-76) the North American Review, was lecturer (1876-79) on American history at Harvard, and edited (1880-81) the International... Read more |
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Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. 1902-85, American public official and diplomat, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (1937-44, 1947-53), b. Nahant, Mass.; grandson of Henry Cabot Lodge. He was a journalist on the Boston Evening Transcript and then on the New York Herald Tribune until 1931 and a member of... Read more |
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Lowell Mason
Lowell Mason 1792-1872, American composer and music educator, b. Medfield, Mass. While working as a bank clerk in Savannah, Ga., he helped compile an anthology that was published as The Boston Handel and Haydn Society's Collection of Church Music (1822). He went to Boston to direct the music in... Read more |
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Charles Warren
Charles Warren 1868-1954, American lawyer and historian, b. Boston. He was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1892. An assistant U.S. Attorney General (1914-18), he served as a special master in important cases decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. He drafted the Espionage Act (1917), which was used... Read more |
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Father's Masonic lesson built character.(News)
...of them, the old man's integrity...describing how the Masonic fraternity, troubled...in the 1700s, Masonic rituals were regarded...one outside the lodge, and it was understood...Masons' rich history of philanthropy...just come back to ... |
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Dedicated Ceremony: Fresno Gets a New Prince Hall Masonic Lodge; `Its History...
...Lodge; `Its History Dates Back to...Prince Hall Grand Lodge (MWPHGL...new Prince Hall Masonic Lodge in the City of...making it the oldest and most prestigious...as well as Lodges in California...the Prince ... |
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Groundbreaking Masons; District's Prince Hall Lodge Celebrates 150 Years of...
...Revolutionary War history. Like secret...join Masonic lodges in Boston, they were...Foot Regiment lodge "initiated...in England, Masonic world headquarters...establish a "Lodge of Free Negroes...still in ... |
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Prince Hall: Boston's first black Freemason
...Masonic Order, the oldest and largest fraternal...Black men in Boston, Massachusetts...Tremont Temple in Boston for the convention...Castle Island) Boston Harbor on March...society in American history devoted to ... |
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D.C. Prince Hall Lodge celebrates 150 years.(Black History)(Brief Article)
...the first Black Masonic lodge below the...the first Black Masonic Lodge. Hall, son...color, went to Boston from Barbados...to be one of the oldest African-American...1787, African Lodge No. 459 was formally ... |
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Washington's MASONIC SHRINE; Imposing sight in Alexandria.(FAMILY...
...Byline: Gabriella Boston, THE WASHINGTON...George Washington Masonic National Memorial...western edge of Old Town Alexandria...lessons in art history, American history...Freemasonry is the oldest and largest fraternal...to a ... |
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Thy brother's keeper: the mutual aid tradition of American fraternal orders.
...organizations are as old our as history-indeed...American Masonic lodge opened in Boston in 1733...commitment to the lodge was a pledge...independent Masonic lodges had been...funerals. ... |
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Largest group of black Masons celebrates 150 years
...from white lodges. African Lodge #459 of Boston, the inaugural...Prince Hall Lodges in Boston and New York...master, the Masonic title for lodge president...grasp onto the older members ... |
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Masons adopt an open door policy Search is on for young members
CITY WEEKLY / BOSTON NEIGHBORHOODS...a 31-year-old rock guitarist...ceilings at the Masonic Lodge on Tremont Street in Boston.But Stone...august 275-year history: They have started...Stone visited the Boston ... |
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The new Masons The centuries-old fraternity, in an effort to remain relevant,...
...a 31-year-old rock guitarist...ceilings at the Masonic Lodge on Tremont Street in Boston.But Stone...august 275-year history: They have started...Stone visited the Boston lodge. "If we...York and flies to ... |
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