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Temperance Hall (Dedham, Massachusetts)
Temperance Hall was an assembly hall in Dedham, Massachusetts associated with the temperance movement. It previously served as the Norfolk County Courthouse. History After the creation of Norfolk County in 1793, a new courthouse was ordered to be constructed. It was completed in 1795. It was found to be too small, however, and the ceilings were so low as to stifle people in the courtrooms. After a new Norfolk County Courthouse was constructed in 1827, the old building was sold at public auction to Harris Monroe and Erastus Worthington. The pair speculated that the Town may want to use it as a town hall, and so they dragged it south down Court Street to a new lot. The Town decided to build an entirely new structure, however, on Bullard Street. Worthington and Monroe then rented out the first floor, which had been used as county offices, as a retail space and apartment. It was used for a long time after that as a millinery shop. The second floor, which had the old courtroom, wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temperance Hall In Dedham
Temperance may refer to: Moderation *Temperance movement, movement to reduce the amount of alcohol consumed *Temperance (virtue), habitual moderation in the indulgence of a natural appetite or passion Culture *Temperance (group), Canadian dance-pop musical group * Temperance (Tarot card), Major Arcana Tarot card *''Temperance'', album by Astrud Gilberto *Temperance Brennan, fictional character by Kathy Reichs **Temperance "Bones" Brennan, fictional character of TV series ''Bones'' *Temperance (Italian band), Italian melodic metal group ** ''Temperance'' (album), 2014 debut album by the Italian band Places United States *Temperance, Georgia, an unincorporated community *Temperance Bell, Georgia, an unincorporated community *Temperance, Michigan, a community *Temperance Hall, Tennessee, a small community *Temperance Island, Lake Michigan *Temperance River, Minnesota Other places * Temperance Vale, New Brunswick, Canada * Temperance Town, Cardiff Temperance Town, Cardiff, was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, February 1817 or 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, becoming famous for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. Accordingly, he was described by abolitionists in his time as a living counterexample to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been a slave. It was in response to this disbelief that Douglass wrote his first autobiography. Douglass wrote three autobiographies, describing his experiences as a slave in his '' Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave'' (1845), which became a bestseller and was influential in promot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norfolk House (Dedham, Massachusetts)
The Norfolk House also known as the Norfolk Hotel, was a tavern in Dedham, Massachusetts originally built in 1801 and located at 19 Court Street. It hosted John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, and the Marquis de Lafayette. Martin Marsh During the first few years of the 19th century, several turnpikes, including those linking Boston and Providence and Dedham and Hartford, were laid through Dedham. Inns and taverns sprung up along the new roads as more than 600 coaches would pass through Dedham each day on their way to Boston or Providence. As many as 40 coaches passed through town every day, and Dedham was the first stop on the way to Providence, or the last stop on the way to Boston. In 1802, a local mason named Martin Marsh built his brick home at what is today 19 Court Street and was on then then-new new turnpikes. He saw the traffic flowing daily past his house and quickly turned his home into a tavern. He obtained a 999-year lease from First Church for the land on June ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fenian Brotherhood
The Fenian Brotherhood () was an Irish republican organisation founded in the United States in 1858 by John O'Mahony and Michael Doheny. It was a precursor to Clan na Gael, a sister organisation to the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB). Members were commonly known as " Fenians". O'Mahony, who was a Gaelic scholar, named his organisation after the Fianna, the legendary band of Irish warriors led by Fionn mac Cumhaill. Background The Fenian Brotherhood trace their origins back to 1790s, in the rebellion, seeking an end to British rule in Ireland initially for self-government and then the establishment of an Irish Republic. The rebellion was suppressed, but the principles of the United Irishmen were to have a powerful influence on the course of Irish history. Following the collapse of the rebellion, the British Prime Minister William Pitt introduced a bill to abolish the Irish parliament and manufactured a Union between Ireland and Britain. Opposition from the Protestan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor (November 24, 1784 – July 9, 1850) was an American military leader who served as the 12th president of the United States from 1849 until his death in 1850. Taylor was a career officer in the United States Army, rising to the rank of major general and becoming a national hero for his victories in the Mexican–American War. As a result, he won election to the White House despite his vague political beliefs. His top priority as president was to preserve the Union. He died 16 months into his term from a stomach disease, thus having the third shortest presidency in U.S. history. Taylor was born into a prominent family of plantation owners who moved westward from Virginia to Louisville, Kentucky, in his youth; he was the last president born before the adoption of the Constitution. He was commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Army in 1808 and made a name for himself as a captain in the War of 1812. He climbed the ranks of the military, establishing military for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dedham Community House
The Dedham Community House is a house on the banks of the Charles River in Dedham, Massachusetts owned and operated by the Dedham Community Association. Haven house It was originally built in 1798 for Judge Samuel Haven and designed by Charles Bulfinch. The land was once owned by Haven's father, Jason Haven, and maternal grandfather, Samuel Dexter. It was noted as one of the most hospitable houses of the day in Massachusetts. The Havens entertained many distinguished guests, including Richard Henry Dana Sr., Elizabeth Peabody, Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife, Horace Mann and his wife, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Washington Allston and his wife, Charles Folsom and his wife, Judge Theron Metcalf and his wife, and Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln ( ; February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dedham Station
Dedham (formerly Dedham Center) was a train station located in central Dedham, Massachusetts, at the terminus of the Dedham Branch. Original station The original Dedham station stood near the intersection of Eastern Avenue and High Streets. It opened in February 1835 with the rest of the Dedham Branch. The depot bell was mounted on a tall post at the northeast corner on a projecting gooseneck arm. It was rung 10 minutes before a train was to leave, then again five minutes before, and for a final time at the train's departure. It burned down in 1849, leaving only the walls standing, and it was patched up with boards for temporary use until a new station could be constructed to the south. New station The station had a long colonnade of arches facing Eastern Avenue and it had a bell tower. A red covered bridge would rumble as trains would pass through it. After April 1966, Dedham station, along with the rest of the Dedham Branch, was part of the MBTA Commuter Rail The MBTA Commut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abe Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln ( ; February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln led the nation through the American Civil War and succeeded in preserving the Union, abolishing slavery, bolstering the federal government, and modernizing the U.S. economy. Lincoln was born into poverty in a log cabin in Kentucky and was raised on the frontier, primarily in Indiana. He was self-educated and became a lawyer, Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator, and U.S. Congressman from Illinois. In 1849, he returned to his successful law practice in central Illinois. In 1854, he was angered by the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which opened the territories to slavery, and he re-entered politics. He soon became a leader of the new Republican Party. He reached a national audience in the 1858 Senate campaign debates against Stephen A. Douglas. Lincoln ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick O'Beirne
Patrick O'Beirne (December 31, 1808 – March 20, 1883) was an Irish-born priest who ministered in the Archdiocese of Boston. Personal life He was born in Mohill, County Leitrim, on December 31, 1808, and arrived in America in 1833. His brother, John O'Beirne, was also a priest in Boston. Patrick died on March 20, 1883, and was buried next to his brother John on the grounds of St. Joseph's church in Roxbury. Ministry O'Beirne was ordained a priest in 1835 at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston by Bishop Benedict Fenwick. Over his career he served in Vermont, Rhode Island, and Maine, which were then parts of the Diocese of Boston. Immediately after his ordination, he spent some time at the cathedral before being transferred to St. Mary's in the North End and then to Burlington, Vermont. From 1841 to 1843, he served at what would later become the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Portland, Maine. O'Beirne then was assigned to Roxbury's St. Patrick's parish, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of St
History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbrella term comprising past events as well as the memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, and interpretation of these events. Historians seek knowledge of the past using historical sources such as written documents, oral accounts, art and material artifacts, and ecological markers. History is not complete and still has debatable mysteries. History is also an academic discipline which uses narrative to describe, examine, question, and analyze past events, and investigate their patterns of cause and effect. Historians often debate which narrative best explains an event, as well as the significance of different causes and effects. Historians also debate the nature of history as an end in itself, as well as its usefulness to give perspective on the problems of the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Famine (Ireland)
The Great Famine ( ga, an Gorta Mór ), also known within Ireland as the Great Hunger or simply the Famine and outside Ireland as the Irish Potato Famine, was a period of starvation and disease in Ireland from 1845 to 1852 that constituted a historical social crisis which subsequently had a major impact on Culture of Ireland, Irish society and History of Ireland, history as a whole. With the most severely affected areas in the west and south of Ireland, where the History of the Irish language#Nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Irish language was dominant, the period was contemporaneously known in Irish as , literally translated as "the bad life" (and loosely translated as "the hard times"). The worst year of the period was 1847, which became known as "Black '47".Éamon Ó Cuív – the impact and legacy of the Great Irish Famine During the Great Hunger, roughly 1 million people died and more than 1 million Irish diaspora, fled the country, causing the country's population to fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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