Governors race in New Jersey. Young Hyson riding over the backs of the...
A satire on the New Jersey gubernatorial campaign of 1844, centering on a major issue of the race--extension of the Camden and Amboy Railroad. The Whig candidate, New Jersey native Charles C. Stratton, campaign... More
Wayland town meeting minutes, volume 4. Wayland, Mass.
Volume four begins with the March 5, 1883. The Methodist-Episcopal Church held the first meeting on May 16, 1883 in Cochituate under the provisions of Chapter 38 of the Public Statutes of the commonwealth of Ma... More
How the public domain has been squandered, map showing the 139,403,026...
America Transformed: Railroad infrastructure expanded from 31,000 miles in 1860 to 130,000 miles by the 1890s. To subsidize construction, the U.S. government gave over 140 million acres of public land to railro... More
Wayland town meeting minutes, volume 5. Wayland, Mass.
Volume five started on Feb. 1901 meeting. Every year the town received funding for perpetual maintenance of cemetery lots giving the donor’s name and the those buried there. The town continued to vote money for... More
