Once known to native inhabitants as Manamooskeagin, or the land of many beavers, Abington became an important manufacturing and financial center in Plymouth County by the early twentieth century. Postcard photographers and publishers caught every stage of the community's growth and broadcast it to the world through images of workmen at shoe factories, parades celebrating the town's 1912 bicentennial, and the dedication of the Island Grove Soldiers and Sailors Monument, a nineteenth-century gathering site for abolitionists that is today one of America's newest districts in the National Register of Historic Places. Abington captures the nostalgia of this town during the postcard era.
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Donald Cann of Rockland is a member and former president of the Historical Society of Old Abington. John Galluzzo of Hull is the author of four Arcadia books on the histories of Hull and Scituate. Abington is their third cooperative endeavor. They coauthored Rockland and Squantum and South Weymouth Naval Air Stations for Arcadia Publishing's Images of America series. Donald Cann of Rockland is a member and former president of the Historical Society of Old Abington. John Galluzzo of Hull is the author of four Arcadia books on the histories of Hull and Scituate. Abington is their third cooperative endeavor. They coauthored Rockland and Squantum and South Weymouth Naval Air Stations for Arcadia Publishing's Images of America series.
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This photo postcard was taken c. 1912 on Centre Avenue looking west, just down the road from Post Office Square. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Island Grove, Washington Street, Centre Avenue, North Abington, North Avenue, Civil War, Grand Army, Lake Street, Adams Street, Old Abington, Mount Vernon Cemetery, Abington Savings Bank, Greek Revival, Bank Street, East Abington, United States, Center Abington, Church of the New Jerusalem, Railroad Street, Central Street, New York, South Abington, Vaughan's Corner, Bedford Street, Brighton Street New!
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Island Grove, Washington Street, Centre Avenue, North Abington, North Avenue, Civil War, Grand Army, Lake Street, Adams Street, Old Abington, Mount Vernon Cemetery, Abington Savings Bank, Greek Revival, Bank Street, East Abington, United States, Center Abington, Church of the New Jerusalem, Railroad Street, Central Street, New York, South Abington, Vaughan's Corner, Bedford Street, Brighton Street New!
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- Our Town: A Play in Three Acts (Perennial Classics) by Thornton Wilder on page 27
- The Octagon House: A Home for All by Orson Squire Fowler on page 22
- The New Jerusalem by Emanuel Swedenborg on page 71
- The Great Depression - How We Coped, Worked and Played: Life-Experience Stories from the Carolinas' Piedmont (1929-41) by Margaret G. Bigger on page 40
- Chapel Street: A Novel by Sam North on page 35
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