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			1769 Forefather's Day celebrated by Plymouth's Old Colony Club
1770 Paul Revere engraves the events in King Street.
			1772 Paul Revere engraves a "portrait" of King Philip
1783 Boston establishes annual July 4 oration
			1791 Massachusetts Historical Society founded
1799 East India Marine Society established in Salem, Massachusetts
			1815 Henry Sargent paints "The Landing of the Fathers"
1817 Pres. James Monroe consecrates Bunker Hill battle site
			1818 Daniel Wadsworth commissions a portrait of the Charter Oak
1818 John Trumbull's painting of the signing of the Declaration of Independence displayed at Faneuil Hall
			1820 Daniel Webster speaks at Plymouth bicentennial
1821 Essex Institute founded
			1822 Rhode Island Historical Society founded
1823 New Hampshire Historical Society founded
			1824 Pilgrim Hall museum opened in Plymouth
1824 Lafayette feted in America
			1824 Bunker Hill monument begun
1825 Connecticut Historical Society founded
			1829 First performance of "Metamora"
1830 Monument erected at Fort Griswold
			1835 George Robert Twelves Hewes feted in Providence and Boston
1835 Rhode Island Historical Society collects materials from Indian graves.
			1836 John Warner Barber , "Historical Collections of Connecticut"
1836 William Apess. Eulogy on King Philip
			1836 Eliza Susan Quincy portrays procession at Harvard's 200th Anniversary
1837 John Sibley publishes story of Washington Elm
			1837 Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Concord Hymn" sung at the dedication of the North Bridge Battle Monument.
1842 Eleanor Field gives the Rhode Island Historical Society a basket purportedly made during King Philip's War.
			1842 Wadsworth Atheneum opens in Hartford
1845 New England Historic Genealogical Society Founded
			1847 Sarah Hale, ed. of Godey's begins Thanksgiving campaign
1848 Thompkins Matteson's "Examination of a Witch" exhibited in New York
			1851 Horace Bushnell speaks at Litchfield County Centennial
1856 Charter Oak toppled in a wind storm
			1858 Winslow Homer illustrates rural New England life. .
1858 Crispus Attucks Day celebrated at African Meeting House
			1860 Matthew Brady photographs Edwin Forrest as "Metamora"
1864 U.S. Sanitary Commission sponsors "Colonial Kitchens"
			1866 Peabody Museum founded at Harvard
1868 Winslow Homer illustrates life in Lowell Mills
			1868 Deerfield first exhibits door from "Indian House"
1869 American Museum of Natural History founded in New York
			1869 Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association founded in Deerfield, Massachusetts
1870 Boston Museum of Fine Arts founded
			1870 Metropolitan Museum of Art founded in New York
1870 Winslow Homer engraving, "The Dinner Horn"
			1873 Anne Whitney wins competition to create a sculpture of Samuel Adams for the United States Capitol.
1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia
			1879 The Boston Antiquarian Club rescues the Old State House
1879 Children give Longfellow a chair from the "spreading chestnut"
			1880 Memorial Hall dedicated in Deerfield
1881 Nantucket's Coffin House restored
			1881 Winslow Homer seeks the "old ways" in an English fishing village.
1885 Boston proposes a statue of Paul Revere
			1887 Ellen Rounds repairs the "Damm Garrison"
1887 Mass. Historical Society protests Boston Massacre monument
			1888 Crispus Attucks Monument dedicated
1889 Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association presents a historical pageant
			1890 Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Founded
1890 Alice Baker returns to Deerfield to restore her ancestral home, Frary House.
			1891 Bennington Battle Monument erected
1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago
			1895 Eliza Philbrick creates a "Colonial Gown" for a DAR party in Boston
1896 Blue and White Society formed in Deerfield
			1897 New England Historic Genealogical Society Admits Women
1897 Boston Society of Arts and Crafts Founded
			1898 Emily Tyson purchases the 1785 Hamilton House, the setting for Sarah Orne Jewett's "The Tory Lover."
1900 Old Gaol opened in York, Maine
			1900 Plymouth Blanket Society formed to make "rose blankets"
1901 Maine Historical Society opens Wadsworth-Longfellow House
			1903 Elizabeth C. B. Buel , "The Tale of the Spinning Wheel"
1904 Wallace Nutting launches a career as a historical entrepreneur
			1904 Henry James visits the supposed House of the Seven Gables.
1905 Paul Revere House saved from demolition
			1907 Period rooms opened in Essex Institute
1908 House of Seven Gables Settlement Association founded
			1910 Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (SPNEA) founded
1915 Statue of Anne Hutchinson erected on Beacon Hill
			1922 Antiques Magazine launched
1926 John D. Rockefeller funds Colonial Williamburg in Virginia
			1928 A New York surgeon founds the Abbe Museum on Mount Desert Island, Maine
1929 Henry Ford funds Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan
			1930 Mystic Seaport maritime museum begins operation
1931 Grant Wood paints :The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
			1931 Gladys Tantaquidgeon (1899-2005) founds the Tantaguidgeon Museum at Mohegan.
1931 Polish Legion of American Veterans chartered.
			1935 Yankee magazine founded
1935 Wells Historical Museum (precurser to Old Sturbridge Village) open
			1935 Harold Tantaquidge reconstructs a Mohegan village
1942 Farmer's Museum in Cooperstown, New York established
			1942 Touro Synagogue designated a National Historic Site
1947 Old Sturbridge Village created
			1947 Plimoth Plantation founded
1947 Shelburne Museum established
			1952 Historic Deerfield founded
1958 Strawbery Banke Museum opens in Portsmouth, NH
			1959 Statue of Mary Dyer erected on Beacon Hill
1972 Harvard dedicates the so-called "Bradstreet Gate" between the Science Center and the Yard.
			1987 Archaeologists begin excavating historic sites threatened by Boston's Big Dig.
1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
			1997 "National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom program" established by the National Park Service.
1997 Irish Hunger Monument erected in Cambridge
			1998 Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center Opens
2001 Peabody Museum at Harvard continues to repatriate human remains
			2001 Boston Massacre Memorial included on a new Irish Heritage Trail.
2002 Church at Mohegan restored and museum installed.
			2003 Boston Women's Memorial features Phillis Wheatley, Abigail Adams, and Lucy Stone
2004 Memorial Hall Museum launches new website on "The Many Stories of 1704