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  History of Whitman, Massachusetts, USA

Journey back in time to Whitman, Massachusetts, USA

Visit Whitman, Massachusetts, USA. Discover its history. Learn about the people who lived there through stories, old newspaper articles, pictures, postcards and genealogy.

     

• 1670 - Whitman is settled
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
• 1875 - Whitman is incorporated
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
• Whitman Massachusetts, 1890
  Whitman is a lively manufacturing town of small area in the northwestern section of Plymouth County, 21 miles south of Boston on the Abington and...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1892 - Silver Anniversary
  Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin F. Peterson of Harvard street, Whitman, Mass., celebrated their silver anniversary last evening, about eleven hundred guests...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1895 - Whitman
  Whit'man, a post-town of Plymouth co., Mass., 21 miles by rail S. of Boston. It has 6 churches, 3 national banks, a savings-bank, a high school,...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Old Whitman Homestead, Whitman, Mass.
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  Bank Building
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  High School
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  Washington St. Looking South, Whitman, Mass.
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  Post Office Block and Main Street
  Whitman, Mass.
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  Washington Street
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• 1906
  Whitman, a banking post-village of Plymouth co., Mass., 21 miles S. of Boston, on the New York, New Haven and Hartford R. It has manufactures of...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Town Hall, 1909
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  Bird's Eye View of Whitman, Mass.
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  Washington Street Business Section, looking South
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  First Congregational Church
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  East Whitman Fire Station
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  Hobart Pond and Atwood's Box Mill
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  Parochial Residence
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  Whitman Park
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  Post Office Block and Main Street, 1910
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  Stand Pipe
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  G.A.R. Hall
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  Regal Shoe Factory, East Whitman, Mass.
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• 1930 - First Chocolate Chip Cookie
  Ruth Wakefield invented the first chocolate chip cookie at the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Ma. by adding cut up pieces of chocolate to her butter drop ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Nelson Anderson's Fox and Hounds
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  Old Whitman Homestead
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  Toll House
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