Primary Research

Local History, Closer to Home

Admissions to the Boston Almshouse

Name: Overseer:
Country or Town of Origin:
Date of Admission:
'Black' 'Mulatto' 'Indian' Foreign-Born | Male Female
Admitted by: State Town
Reason for Leaving: Discharged Died Ran Away

Projects

Ten-Footer Shoe Shops of Essex County
Children Bound Out to Essex County
One-Room Schoolhouses of Essex County
Poorhouses and Workhouses of Essex County
Boston Overseers of the Poor
Slave Gravestones of Essex County
Dracut’s Claypit Cemetery
Stone Walls of New England
Project Apprentice to History (PATH)
Primary Research Through the History of Beverly
Nathan Dane Collaborative
African-Americans in Antebellum Boston
“Tiptoeing Through the Tombstones”: Early New England Gravestone Studies
“The Pit”: Archaeological Field Training Site

Student Research

Social History of Postcards
African-Americans in Antebellum Boston
Public School History
Neighborhoods of Beverly
Landscape History
Nathan Dane Archival Collaborative Research Projects
Annotated List of Past Research Paper Topics

Guides

Hometown Handbook: Architecture
Gravestone Glossary
Archaeology Handbook: A Guide for Better Understanding of Archaeology
Seriation Chart

Library

Beverly Educational Archives
African-Americans in Antebellum Boston
Nathan Dane Collaborative: Documents
Historic Beverly Postcards & Images
Rantoul Street Beverly, Massachusetts. United States Population Census. 1910 & 1920
Beverly Civil War Soldiers

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