Born in East Bridgewater in 1831, James Sidney Allen, at the age of 17, began to learn the shoemaking trade. He started a business of…
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Whitman’s First Public Library
In 1879, a group of citizens in Whitman, then known as South Abington, lobbied to establish a free public library for the town. At Town…
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The first electric trolley line in Brockton was the East Side Street Railway, which opened in November 1888, with great success. In 1896, a line…
View More The Trolley Connecting The BridgewatersBridgewater’s General Store
The building to the left of the picture is Hooper and Clark, Bridgewater’s General Store. This store was opened in 1775, replacing a smaller…
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