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Hildreth Inventions History
How water power and the spirit of improvement inspired inventors in Harvard. The Hildreth brothers Stanley and Edwin were the most well known of Harvard’s ingenious inventors.
How water power and the spirit of improvement inspired inventors in Harvard. The Hildreth brothers Stanley and Edwin were the most well known of Harvard’s ingenious inventors.
A community on the shores of Bare Hill Pond has flourished since the early 20th Century: A program of stories and history told by those who lived there
Robert C. Anderson in his “Directions of a Town” wrote: “The first task of the Shakers at Harvard in their growing years was the cultivation and improvement of the tracts of land they had acquired, probably the worst agricultural land in Harvard.”