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Record 678/784
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Collection Postcard Collection
Description Colored Postcard, "Montwait, So. Framingham, Mass., Stone showing site of Eames Massacre, Feb 1, 1676"
No. C8896 Published by J.F. Eber, South Framingham, Mass, Made in Germany

c1950 View of Montwait, site of cottages, summer houses, public buildings and tenting sites, setting for religious encampments beginning in the 1870s and of Chautauqua gatherings into the early 1900s. Thousands came, many by special trains to nearby Lakeview Station then just north of today's incinerator. Some dwellings and the stone exist.
Year Range from 1907
Year range to 1917
Object ID 2007.119.85
Object Name Postcard
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Last modified on: October 26, 2011