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Images from the Swansea Historical Society archives located at the Main Library and the
Library
of Congress archives
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unknown home (from Swansea Historical Society archives)
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unknown view (from Swansea Historical Society archives)
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unknown home (from Swansea Historical Society archives)
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unknown home (from Swansea Historical Society archives)
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Job Gardner's house, believed to have been built
by Lieutenant Col. Peleg Gardner. Destroyed by fire. (from Swansea Historical Society
archives)
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Abram's Rock
located in Village Park (from Swansea Historical Society archives)
click here for more info
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The Borden summer home. 1205 Gardners Neck Road.
Owned by Andrew Borden, Father of Lizzie Borden. (from Swansea Historical Society
archives)
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Great Island, Ocean Grove, Swansea MA, now known
as Pleasure Island (and formerly known as Shady Isle) (from Swansea Historical Society
archives)
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Residence of A. Homer Skinner. Gardners Neck Road
(at what is now Susan Drive). Circa 1905 (from Swansea Historical Society
archives)
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Image from Library of Congress - Tavern on Milford
Rd. Historic American Buildings Survey, Arthur C. Haskell, Photographer. April, 1934.
(b) Ext- General view of building and stable from northeast
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Image from Library of Congress - Old Tavern at Rt
6 and Milford Rd. Historic American Buildings Survey, Arthur C. Haskell, Photographer.
April, 1934. (a) Ext- General view from northwest
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Swansea images from scanned postcards
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former country store located on Maple Ave
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The Bluffs pre Hurricane of 1938
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Lovett's market located at the corner of Milford Road and Gardners Neck Road/Hortonville Road
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Home located on the corner of Old Warren Road and Maple Avenue/Pearse Road
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Swansea Rest Home (now Meadowbrook) located on Stevens Road
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Dorothy Brown Rebekah Lodge (1932)
"The lodge hall was built in 1899, dedicated March 29, 1900; and it is said that this is the
only Rebekah Lodge in this country that owns its Hall, and has invested funds."
(ref: eBook 'History of Swansea, Massachusetts, 1667-1917') |
Ocean Grove Market
pre Hurricane of 1938
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Ocean Grove circa 1901 near entrance to Shady Isle aka Pleasure Island |
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"The Tangle"
located in the "Gardens in the estate of F. S. Stevens."
(description taken from "The Swansea Stagecoach" published by Swansea Historical Society, 1976, and available at the Luther Museum) |
St Michael's Parochial School
Ocean Grove, MA |
