Discover Massachusetts, a New England state rich in history, culture, and innovation. Explore its pivotal role in American ...

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TAUNTON — Taunton's own Old Colony History Museum is featured on an episode of the Rhode Island public television show "Treasures Inside the Museum." WSBE-TV spokesman Faythann Fallon said the ...

It sounds like the plot for a terrible horror movie, but the plan to build a rattlesnake colony on an abandoned island in the Quabbin Reservoir in central Massachusetts is real. NPR's Audie ...

As one of the oldest states in the country, Massachusetts is filled with rich history. The Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded in 1630 by a group of Puritan refugees from England led by John ...

Charles Creighton, an eastern North Carolina business and civic leader and founder of Colony Tire, has died. He was 81.

Founded in the early 17th century, the Massachusetts Bay Colony had a predominately Puritan population who governed from the basis of their beliefs. Richard Pickering of Plimoth Plantation gave ...

Not agreeing with the Pilgrims either, Williams became a preacher in Salem, but was eventually banned from Massachusetts Bay Colony as a whole for his religious beliefs.

From its harbors to its hills, Massachusetts ignited a revolution against the British crown 250 years ago. Our rolling series, From Colony to Commonwealth: Massachusetts and the American Revolution, ...

ARLINGTON, Va. (Dec. 12, 2011) -- The origin of the nation's state National Guard organizations sprang from the forming of militia in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the early 17th century. The ...

Cases involving Quock Walker from 1781 to 1783 resulted in a ruling that slavery had been abolished under the Massachusetts Constitution.

The Massachusetts colony was founded on this date in 1628, and also on this date the city of Boston was incorporated in 1822. So let's have your favorite songs that mention Boston or Massachusetts ...