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…processed up to 50 tons of iron per day. The facility was once a nationally recognized example of Cambridge’s industrial history, albeit harboring harsh working conditions for mainly women laborers….
Read More…just a toddler. This irony is even greater when we learn that Elizabeth’s son grew up to own sugar plantations in Jamaica run by slave labor. Following her talk, MaryKate…
Read More…of slave trading in New England as early as 1688, and Cambridge families made their wealth through enslaved labor and included some enslavers – something the owners of the HLN…
Read MoreTuesday, 05/09/17, 5:30–8:00pm 5:30–6:30pm Walking Tour: Tour The Port with Marian Darlington-Hope; focusing on the manufacturing history, and workers’ lives in The Port, through time. Tour starts in front of…
Read More#HCHistoryHive, you did it! We asked you to help us find the identity of a well known female mechanic who may have run a Gulf gas station in Brattle Square….
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