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The Oblong E31 Lost Massachusetts
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The Oblong - A mysterious phantom territory between Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York.
One might think it is easy to draw three straight lines to a point and say: This is Massachusetts, this is Connecticut and this is New York, but apparently that is actually very difficult and literally took centuries to sort out.
Take a long strange drive with us to the Oblong in our most recent episode.
We also respond to various listener emails and comments.
"she refused to repent, she was led to the gallows once more on June 1, 1660" (webpages.uidaho.edu)
"Connecticut exchanged for the areas of Stamford and Greenwich (which intruded beyond the twenty-mile line) an equivalent amount of land all along the boundary northward to Massachusetts. These ‘Equivalent Lands’ were in a long, narrow ‘Oblong,’ approximately 1 3/4 miles wide." (pattersonhistoricalsociety.org)
"Birdsall sent word to Quaker communities in Long Island, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts, and a few hardy souls bought 500-acre plots around what they quickly christened Quaker Hill." (hvmag.com)
Sources, Links, Photographs and more at LostMassachusetts.com
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The Oblong - A mysterious phantom territory between Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York.
One might think it is easy to draw three straight lines to a point and say: This is Massachusetts, this is Connecticut and this is New York, but apparently that is actually very difficult and literally took centuries to sort out.
Take a long strange drive with us to the Oblong in our most recent episode.
We also respond to various listener emails and comments.
"she refused to repent, she was led to the gallows once more on June 1, 1660" (webpages.uidaho.edu)
"Connecticut exchanged for the areas of Stamford and Greenwich (which intruded beyond the twenty-mile line) an equivalent amount of land all along the boundary northward to Massachusetts. These ‘Equivalent Lands’ were in a long, narrow ‘Oblong,’ approximately 1 3/4 miles wide." (pattersonhistoricalsociety.org)
"Birdsall sent word to Quaker communities in Long Island, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts, and a few hardy souls bought 500-acre plots around what they quickly christened Quaker Hill." (hvmag.com)
Sources, Links, Photographs and more at LostMassachusetts.com
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lostmass/message
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lostmass/support
24 min