Lost Massachusetts

Vince Aut Morire - "Victory or Death", the battle cry of April 19 1775...

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Preview of Season 4 in the Quiet Zone of Massachusetts, police interaction and podcast software failure... https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/ Sources, credits, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place

The Place of the Arranged Stones....Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/ Sources, credits, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place

You call it Park Square, but before South Station opened this was the gateway to the city from all points south between Boston and Rhode Island...Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/ Sources, credits, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place

What is Assabet? It's more than you'll ever know...Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/ Sources, credits, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place

Long road from the State House to Lower Falls was once a narrow dam with water on both sides. Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/ Sources, credits, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place

People will tell you they are worthless, but in reality they can be used as admission to interesting history.... Show notes: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place/f/wooden-nickels-e73 Photos and social: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/

Ripton only exists on paper, or in people's minds (or does it?) Show notes: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place/f/ripton-mass-paper-towns-e72 Pictures and social: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/

This is an announcement for our second podcast: Lucasian Legacy - History of the Lucasian Chair at Cambridge University. See http://lucasianchair.org Social: https://www.instagram.com/lucasianlegacy/

This Lost Massachusetts Episode is about a secret identity... Show notes: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place/f/zoltan-e71 Pictures and social: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/

Postcards from listeners, emails, IG comments, online reviews and preview of upcoming shows... Show notes: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place/f/comments-and-notes-e69 Photos and social: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/

Revolutionary meaning behind the Elm Street in your town. Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/

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A lost town that reveals itself occasionally and disappears again. Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/

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A fragment of the True Cross can be found in East Boston.

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The Brighton Abattoir, a mass slaughterhouse between the Charles River and the Boston-Albany Railroad. Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/

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Continuing saga of the mysteries of Mechanic St. This time in beautiful Marlborough, Mass. Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/

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The French Cable Hut in Eastham Mass. and where it leads. Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/

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Multiple colonies reorganized in 1691 by King William and Queen Mary after decades of turmoil in England and the various territories. Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/

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Mechanic Street Easthampton, Mass. Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/

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Fictional town of Matheson, Mass. from the show Locke & Key. Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/

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We respond to various listener comments, recap season 2 and preview Season 3... Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/

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Fort Devens, is it a town now? What went on here for over 100 years? Why is so much of it restricted and abandoned? Many stories to tell? Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/

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Mechanic Street, Leominster. Continued investigation of the mysterious Mechanic Street and where it leads... Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/

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What made Massachusetts first millionares? Pond Ice. Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/

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Dune shacks off Route 6 outside Provincetown. Solitary and sublime, A place to forget and be forgotten. The mind expands when it is bathed in light and then wrapped in darkness without the noise of the modern world. Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/

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Valley Acre, aka Pemberton Square, aka Cotton Hill, aka Center Plaza, etc. Original English settlement on the foot of Beacon Hill. Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/

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Apologies & Listener Comments. Where have we been? Explained. Where we are going? Explained. Thanks for listening and thanks for the ideas an encouragement. Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/

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Brook Farm West Roxbury, a short-lived Transcendentalist Utopian Communal experiment with some well-known Massachusetts intellectuals involved. The preserved site is in the center of an enormous cemetery complex, worth a visit for many reasons. Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/

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Mechanic Street, Upper Falls. Continued exploration of the mysterious Mechanic Street across Massachusetts (and maybe elsewhere?). This one is in a post industrial section of Newton. Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/

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Mudville, Firecracker Alley, Whiskey Hollow...all colorful names but not ones that would remain in place for modern polite society. Follow Lost Massachusetts down a quiet side street to a shady park and well-used baseball diamond. Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/

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No, you cannot get your nails and hair done here...but you can get Tonic, Grinders, Tall Cans, Slushies, Butts, Frappes, Batteries for your Clicker, Hoodsies, Roadies...you have no idea what I'm talking about? Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/

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In Out There Episode 47 we discuss some of the odd history and findings out in Boston Harbor, particularly the Bug Light. We also demonstrate how to dial into various navigational devices and collect data from them... Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/

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Did you grow up near or have you ever seen mysterious castle buildings with the enigmatic "MVM" carved over the door? In this episode of Lost Massachusetts we will explain the meaning behind MVM and the history of the castle buildings... Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/

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Major highway projects can bring prosperity, ease of travel but can also cut through the soul of a community and make it vanish. In this episode we learn about how the Turnpike Authority cleared out swaths of homes in West Newton and Auburndale Mass. Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/

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If you are driving through Ashland Mass you might notice something odd pop up on your GPS: a designation called “Workman’s Circle Camp” Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/

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Join Lost Massachusetts on this mystery road trip and what we found at the end of it...We take an unexpected tour of a liminal space inside the lost town of Southerton Mass. Never heard of Southerton? It was and still is there. You can see it too. Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/

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