Randolph, Massachusetts: A century ago this week. News items from The Stoughton Sentinel, March 22, 1913.
David L. Burrell, this town’s oldest citizen, died Tuesday night at the home of his daughter, Mrs. John S. Croud on South Street, aged 91 years, 8 months and 22 days. He was born in East Randolph, now Holbrook, in that section known as Faxon’s corner, Brookville. A son of David L. and Hannah (Ludden) Burrell.
Massachusetts is launching a new grant program designed to preserve objects and sites in the state that are significant to the history of the Civil War.
Robert von Wolfgang, chairman of a state commission to honor the 150th anniversary, said the grant program will not only help preserve the state’s past, but will also serve as a reminder that the Civil War is a lot closer in time than most people think.
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Members of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment, a reenactment corps, will be making a special visit to New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park from noon to 3:30 p.m. Thursday.
The visit is part of the park’s “Call to Arms,” a day to explore the Civil War. They will share the story of this all-black Civil War regiment and its New Bedford connection, and hold a weapons “drill and dress-up” for students or other interested participants.
One test of how a society feels about its soldiers is how well it treats the survivors when their services are no longer needed. During the Civil War, Springfield came out of this rather well, when its men began coming home.
The war itself had begun after the fall of Fort Sumter to the South on April 13, 1861.
You might think you know Civil War history, from Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard firing on the union garrison holding Fort Sumter in 1861 to Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox in 1865.
But during the 150th commemoration of the War Between the States, National Park Service officials wanted to engage the public by sharing even the lesser-known but remarkable stories that affected the nation, not just the major battlefields.
War news that was confusing, inaccurate and eventually disastrous was daily fare for readers of The Republican in the first week of July 1862.
As the region made plans for a massive show of patriotism on the Fourth of July reports of “a great battle at Richmond” dominated the headlines. In fact, there wasn’t a single great battle, but a series of six individual battles in a week that would become known as the Seven Days Battles.
The more than decade long mission to bring the six marble Civil War tablets back to Town Hall could be nearing the end.
The last step in this journey is the hiring of a consultant to look at how the Town Room might support the weight of them and how they could be hung.
Some of them weigh about 1,000 pounds.
Decades ago, four Civil War-era cannons
graced each corner of Main Street’s Monument Park.
This summer there may not be any.
The location of two of the cannons is a
decades-old mystery.The Board of Parks Commissioners is
considering keeping the remaining two indoors to preserve them, according to
board President Angelo Bisol.
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