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Neighbors who lived across the street from Janine and Archer Campbell and their sons.  The Stones lived in an older cottage that they inherited from Mrs. Stone’s family.  They were of the laboring class.

Food could be had in many places, including bakeries, ice cream parlors, taverns and saloons, and in every neighborhood. This sampling of the cost of eating out is from Restaurant-ing Through History: 1876 Shorey’s, Haymarket Square, Boston: “Famous Boiled Dinner” … Continue reading →

Protectories are institutions for the shelter and training of the young, designed to afford neglected or abandoned children shelter, food, raiment, and the rudiments of an education in religion, morals, science, and manual training or industrial pursuits. (New Advent Roman Catholic … Continue reading →

By 1883 there were four colleges in New England and the Middle Atlantic states specifically founded in order to provide education for women.1 Of these four, Rutgers Female College no longer exists. Vassar College Poughkeepsie  NY 1865 Yale Rutgers Female College New York … Continue reading →