Eleventh Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
ELEVENTH REGIMENT MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEER INFANTRY Regiment lost during service 11 Officers and 153 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 Officers…
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Moshe Milkbaum is the editor of chelseamass.net. Send tips and corrections to [email protected].The Chelsea Police Scandal of 1916
THE CHELSEA POLICE SCANDAL OF 1916 The scandal of 1916 was the raid on the gambling joint at 401 Broadway. It would…
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George M. Cohan
GEORGE M. COHAN “Give My Regards to Broadway,” “Over There,” “You’re a Grand Old Flag,” “Yankee Doodle Dandy,” “Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway,”…
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EARLY CHELSEA TRANSPORTATION In the late 1840s a much needed new era of transportation came upon the scene, the steam railroad.…
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Saint Stanislaus Church
SAINT STANISLAUS CHURCH Between the years of 1870 to 1914, nearly two million Polish immigrants arrived in the United States. Many of…
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Winnisimmet Academy An Act of Incorporation was sought from the General Court of Massachusetts, by a group of men, inhabitants of…
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WOODLAWN CEMETARY Just over the Chelsea border, in the City of Everett, lies a place of quiesence and tranquility, a place that…
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The Old Clay Pit and Parkway Plaza Shopping Center
The Clay Pit The Clay Pit was an arrant body of water that covered an area between Locke Street and Gilhooly Road,…
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CHELSEA IN THE REVOLUTION 1775 In 1775, two-hundred twenty-five years ago, the tensions between the British and the thirteen American colonies (brought…
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UNION PARK In 1860, The City of Chelsea was compelled to take, for nonpayment of taxes, a large lot of land situated…
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