Abington

Once known to native inhabitants as Manamooskeagin, or "the land of many beavers," Abington became an important manufacturing and financial center in Plymouth County by the early twentieth century. Postcard photographers and publishers caught every stage of the community's growth and broadcast it to the world through images of workmen at shoe factories, parades celebrating the town's 1912 bicentennial, and the dedication of the Island Grove Soldiers and Sailors Monument, a nineteenth-century gathering site for abolitionists that is today one of America's newest districts in the National Register of Historic Places. Abington captures the nostalgia of this town during the postcard era.

Author: Donald Cann, John Galluzzo
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Published: 08/06/2004
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.52w x 0.36d
ISBN13: 9780738536071
ISBN10: 0738536075
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | State & Local | New England (CT, MA, ME, NH,