History Of The Town Of Gardner Worcester County Mass

Author : Wm; D. Herrick
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ISBN 13 : 9781330984208
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (842 download)

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Download or read book History of the Town of Gardner written by Wm; D. Herrick and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of the Town of Gardner: Worcester County, Mass;, From the Incorporation, June 27, 1785, to the Present Time In introducing this work, to the public, some explanation, regarding its origin and authorship, is required. It will be remembered that, early in the year 1876, Congress recommended to all the towns, in the Union the celebration of the hundredth anniversary of our nation's independence, by appropriate public exercises, among which should be an historical address, a copy of which, should be deposited, in the nation's archives, at Washington. Stirred by the spirit of '76, so greatly revived, at that time, all over our land, the people of Gardener assembled in the Town Hall, on the evening of June 12th, to consider measures for carrying into effect this recommendations of Congress. A general committee of arrangements was chosen, who furnished an appropriate order of exercises for the day, which consisted, in firing a hundred guns, at sunrise, on Bickford Hill, also a procession, which was formed, at South Gardener, and marching through the principal streets, terminated at Crystal Lake Grove, where an historical address was delivered, by the author of this work. This arrangement was successfully carried out, the day being fine, the procession large, and the closing scenes of fireworks, on Bickford Hill, brilliant and beautiful. For this celebration the town appropriated five hundred dollars. In preparing the historical address, which was not wholly delivered on that occasion, for want of time, the author became greatly interested in the records of this town, which, in his judgment, ought to be published, in the form of a town history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.