Here we rediscover the vanished and forgotten places in one of America's oldest states, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It could be a ghost town, it could be a former neighborhood reclaimed for industrial use. Sometimes we hike into the wilderness, som

This is a version of a Lost Massachusetts presentation given about Mechanic Street. Organizing the information we have collected and researched so far on Mechanic Street. This is also a test of using images within the podcast file so what we are discussing can be seen as presented. Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/Sources, links, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place

Gypsy was a beloved horse who passed away in 1928. You can see Gypsy's memorial stone along with other family pets who will never be forgotten...Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/Sources, links, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place

Take wooden nickels, take three dollar bills too.Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/Sources, links, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place

What's at the end of this road? Has it gone to sand? Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/Sources, links, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place

Lost Mass discusses some postcard history and postal trivia while visiting places in old postcards to see what they look like now and reveal hidden history within the photos and messages...Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/Sources, links, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place

Tragabigzanda, Mass. is the perfect place for a weekend getaway, but how do I get there? It's a long voyage...Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/Sources, links, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place

A ghost of greater times you can walk through and imagine...Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/Sources, links, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place

A dead 19th Century 3000 mile undersea cable ends here...but it's the beginning of all the tech you use. Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/Sources, links, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place

Continued investigation of the Mechanic Street story, hidden history of the Revolution, right in plain sight....Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/Sources, links, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place

Not gone, just moved, and the campus is empty...Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/Sources, links, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place

Dark days in Boston after Bunker Hill and before the full Revolutionary War of 1776. Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/Sources, links, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place

What's at the end of this Mechanic Street? A surreal landscape until you realize what it is....Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/Sources, links, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place

Unless you went there specifically to shop you might not realize you are in a mall because of the construction...Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/Sources, links, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place

Thanks for listening to Lost Massachusetts! We read comments from Lost Massers...Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/Sources, links, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place

What are the mysterious concrete slabs in the middle of nowhere? Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/Sources, links, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place

What is the mystery of Pearl Street? How does it relate to Mechanic? Photos and contact: @lostmassachusettsSources, links, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place

Truly dead end road with no exit...What's down there? Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/ Sources, credits, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place

Why is there a big chunk of Waltham in Newton? Why is called "Chemistry"? Lost Massachusetts answers...Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/ Sources, credits, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place

Want to get away, really get away? Go out to the Monroe Bridge for big blue sky, fresh air and no people.

Is there a Lake? No. Maybe. Yes, at one time...but more of a state of mind. ..Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/ Sources, credits, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place

Catamount Mass, ghosttown haunted by an early American spirt...Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/ Sources, credits, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place

Liberty & Union, maybe you've seen these streets? How are they connected to Mechanic? What does it mean? ...Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/ Sources, credits, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place

Got Zylonite? You might. A mysterious space between two towns in Western Mass...Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/ Sources, credits, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place

Vince Aut Morire - "Victory or Death", the battle cry of April 19 1775...

Your comments, postcards, etc...Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/ Sources, credits, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place

Preview of Season 4 in the Quiet Zone of Massachusetts, police interaction and podcast software failure... https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/ Sources, credits, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place

The Place of the Arranged Stones....Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/ Sources, credits, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place

You call it Park Square, but before South Station opened this was the gateway to the city from all points south between Boston and Rhode Island...Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/ Sources, credits, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place

Continued investigation into Mechanic Street. Today in historic Quincy...Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/ Sources, credits, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place

What is Assabet? It's more than you'll ever know...Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/ Sources, credits, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place

Continuing saga of the mysteries of Mechanic St. This time in Worcester, Mass. Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/ Sources, credits, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place

Precious public park spanning several towns with a mysterious stone on a tiny island... Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/ Sources, credits, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place

Long road from the State House to Lower Falls was once a narrow dam with water on both sides. Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/ Sources, credits, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place

Part of Northampton? Not any more. Some of the Mysteries of Mount Tom... Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/ Sources, credits, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place

Lamenting the lost of our 80 or more Massachusetts Drive-In theaters but celebrating the three still open...Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/ Sources, credits, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place

Mechanic Street Great Barrington. More investigations into the mysterious Mechanic Street (see Episode 41 for full context). Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/ Sources, credits, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place

Workers housing in Northborough, Mass. Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/ Sources, credits, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place

Marconi Site in Wellfleet Mass. Location of massive experimental tower array that is slipping into the ocean. Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/ Sources, credits, blog, etc.:https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place

Continued exploration of the Mechanic Street mystery (see Episode 41.), this time the looping Mechanic Street route in Bellingham, Holliston, Hopkington, Medway and Upton. Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/ Sources, credits, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place/

Reading from the text Altered States by Michael Trinklein and a brief note on the Boston Police Strike of 1919... Show notes: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place Photos and social: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/

People will tell you they are worthless, but in reality they can be used as admission to interesting history.... Show notes: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place/f/wooden-nickels-e73 Photos and social: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lostmass/support

Ripton only exists on paper, or in people's minds (or does it?) Show notes: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place/f/ripton-mass-paper-towns-e72 Pictures and social: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lostmass/support

This is an announcement for our second podcast: Lucasian Legacy - History of the Lucasian Chair at Cambridge University. See http://lucasianchair.org --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lostmass/support

This Lost Massachusetts Episode is about a secret identity... --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lostmass/support

Postcards from listeners, emails, IG comments, online reviews and preview of upcoming shows... --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lostmass/support

Revolutionary meaning behind the Elm Street in your town. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lostmass/support

A lost town that reveals itself occasionally and disappears again. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lostmass/support

A fragment of the True Cross can be found in East Boston. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lostmass/support

The Brighton Abattoir, a mass slaughterhouse between the Charles River and the Boston-Albany Railroad. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lostmass/support

Continuing saga of the mysteries of Mechanic St. This time in beautiful Marlborough, Mass. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lostmass/support

The French Cable Hut in Eastham Mass. and where it leads. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lostmass/support