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
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
Multiple colonies reorganized in 1691 by King William and Queen Mary after decades of turmoil in England and the various territories. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lostmass/support
Mechanic Street Easthampton, Mass. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lostmass/support
Fictional town of Matheson, Mass. from the show Locke & Key --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lostmass/support
We respond to various listener comments, recap season 2 and preview Season 3... --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lostmass/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lostmass/support
Fort Devens, is it a town now? What went on here for over 100 years? Why is so much of it restricted and abandoned? Many stories to tell? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lostmass/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lostmass/support
Mechanic Street, Leominster. Continued investigation of the mysterious Mechanic Street and where it leads... --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lostmass/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lostmass/support
What made Massachusetts first millionares? Pond Ice. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lostmass/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lostmass/support