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			1623 Permanent English settlements in New Hampshire
1628 Maypole at Mount Wollaston (Mass)
			1636 Thomas Hooker leads settlement at Hartford.
1661 English Quaker William Leddra hanged in Boston.
			1662 The Wampanoag sachem Wamsutta dies mysteriously.
1675 King Philip's War
			1683 Mary Rowlandson's narrative
1704 Deerfield Massacre
			1725 Lovewell's Defeat at Pigwacket
1766 Hundreds, including slaves and free blacks, begin holding religious meetings in Sarah Osborne's home in Newport, Rhode Island.
			1769 Forefather's Day celebrated by Plymouth's Old Colony Club
1770 11yr old Christopher Seider killed
			1770 Copley paints Paul Revere
1770 Boston Massacre
			1775 George Washington takes command
1776 Abigail Adams urges John to "Remember the Ladies
			1780 Benedict Arnold turns traitor
1781 British attack Fort Griswold and burn New London, Connecticut
			1805 Rock outcropping in Franconia Notch first noticed by road workers.
1806 Black Baptists build a meeting house on Beacon Hill in Boston
			1810 Congress commissions a census on manufactures
1812 U.S.S. Constitution ("Old Ironsides") fights British.
			1813 Agricultural fairs called "Cattle Shows" begin displaying household manufactures
1824 Lydia Maria Child, "Hobomok: A Tale of Early Times"
			1827 Catharine Sedgwick, "Hope Leslie, or Early Times in Massachusetts"
1829 First performance of "Metamora"
			1830 Oliver Wendell Holmes' poem raises outcry over supposed abandonment of "Old Ironsides."
1830 Theodore Dwight, The Northern Traveller (guidbook) mentions "Old Man of the Mountains."
			1830 Monument erected at Fort Griswold
1831 Nathaniel Hawthorne, "My Kinsman, Major Molineux"
			1835 Seaman's Aid Society establishes a "Mariner's Home" in Boston
1837 Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Twice-Told Tales"
			1839 Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Algic Researches
1846 Hawthorne, "Roger Malvyn's Burial" in Mosses From An Old Manse
			1848 William Oakes, Scenery of the White Mountains
1849 California Gold Rush
			1850 Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Great Stone Face"
1851 Herman Melville, "Moby Dick"
			1855 Herman Melville, "Tartarus of Maids"
1856 Charter Oak toppled in a wind storm
			1856 Benjamin Willey, Incidents in White Mountain History
1861 Civil War economy boosts Massachusetts manufacturing
			1863 Emancipation Proclamation frees slaves in rebellious states
1869 Harriet Beecher Stowe, "Old-Town Folks"
			1870 Most female wage workers are employed in factories or as household servants.
1873 Anne Whitney wins competition to create a sculpture of Samuel Adams for the United States Capitol.
			1878 Old Ironsides takes last Atlantic voyage.
1879 The Boston Antiquarian Club rescues the Old State House
			1881 Winslow Homer seeks the "old ways" in an English fishing village.
1887 Ellen Rounds repairs the "Damm Garrison"
			1889 Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association presents a historical pageant
1893 Alice Morse Earle, "Customs and Fashions of Old New England"
			1900 Old Gaol opened in York, Maine
1904 Wallace Nutting launches a career as a historical entrepreneur
			1928 A New York surgeon founds the Abbe Museum on Mount Desert Island, Maine
1930 Old Man of the Mountain promoted as a tourist attraction.
			1935 Wells Historical Museum (precurser to Old Sturbridge Village) open
1935 Harold Tantaquidge reconstructs a Mohegan village
			1947 Old Sturbridge Village created
1958 Strawbery Banke Museum opens in Portsmouth, NH
			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.
			2001 Peabody Museum at Harvard continues to repatriate human remains
2003 Old Man of the Mountains collapses
			2004 Memorial Hall Museum launches new website on "The Many Stories of 1704