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| Years | Image | Event | Description | Keywords |
| 1817 | Pres. James Monroe consecrates Bunker Hill battle site | revolution, memory | ||
| 1858 | Longfellow, "The Courtship of Miles Standish" | Longfellow's poem rivaled Thanksgiving in American memory and helped perpetuate the mystique of the spinning wheel. See The Age of Homespun, page 27. | poetry, pilgrims" plymouth | |
| 1860 | Shoe workers strike in Lynn, Massachusetts and neighboring towns. | Female strikers invoke the memory of the revolutionary heroine Molly Stark. | women's work | |
| 1931 | Polish Legion of American Veterans chartered. | Invoking the memory of Polish officers who fought in the American revolution, they eventually estabished units in New England. | immigrant |