Lost Massachusetts

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

Dune shacks off Route 6 outside Provincetown. Solitary and sublime, A place to forget and be forgotten. The mind expands when it is bathed in light and then wrapped in darkness without the noise of the modern world. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lostmass/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lostmass/support

Valley Acre, aka Pemberton Square, aka Cotton Hill, aka Center Plaza, etc. Original English settlement on the foot of Beacon Hill. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lostmass/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lostmass/support

Apologies & Listener Comments. Where have we been? Explained. Where we are going? Explained. Thanks for listening and thanks for the ideas an encouragement. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lostmass/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lostmass/support

Brook Farm West Roxbury, a short-lived Transcendentalist Utopian Communal experiment with some well-known Massachusetts intellectuals involved. The preserved site is in the center of an enormous cemetery complex, worth a visit for many reasons. --- 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, Upper Falls. Continued exploration of the mysterious Mechanic Street across Massachusetts (and maybe elsewhere?). This one is in a post industrial section of Newton. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lostmass/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lostmass/support

Mudville, Firecracker Alley, Whiskey Hollow...all colorful names but not ones that would remain in place for modern polite society. Follow Lost Massachusetts down a quiet side street to a shady park and well-used baseball diamond. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lostmass/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lostmass/support

No, you cannot get your nails and hair done here...but you can get Tonic, Grinders, Tall Cans, Slushies, Butts, Frappes, Batteries for your Clicker, Hoodsies, Roadies...you have no idea what I'm talking about? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lostmass/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lostmass/support

In this episode we respond to listener postcards, letters, emails and Internet comments. The comments cover recent episodes including MVM E46, Myrtle Village E45, Workmans Circle Camp E44, Southerton, Mass: Velvet Mill E43, Vos Haven E42, Mechanic Street E41 and The Arsenal E40. Listeners provide additional personal context for these stories and tell us which topics were their favorites. More information at LostMassachusetts.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lostmass/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lostmass/support

In Out There Episode 47 we discuss some of the odd history and findings out in Boston Harbor, particularly the Bug Light. We also demonstrate how to dial into various navigational devices and collect data from them... Sources, credits, photos, links and more information at LostMassachusetts.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lostmass/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lostmass/support

Did you grow up near or have you ever seen mysterious castle buildings with the enigmatic "MVM" carved over the door? In this episode of Lost Massachusetts we will explain the meaning behind MVM and the history of the castle buildings... Sources, credits, photos, links and more information at LostMassachusetts.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lostmass/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lostmass/support

Major highway projects can bring prosperity, ease of travel but can also cut through the soul of a community and make it vanish. In this episode we learn about how the Turnpike Authority cleared out swaths of homes in West Newton and Auburndale Mass. Myrtle Village formed around the Myrtle Baptist Church, which still stands today as a testament to the perseverance and faith of a community. However the construction of the Pike left visible scars on the neighborhood which can still be seen with a careful eye. A jumble confusing traffic patterns, dead ends and oddly configured streets make it obvious that the area used to look completely different. We also discuss what a "Turnpike" is anyway and how the famous Star Market ended up straddling the highway. By the late 1940's routes 9, 20 and 30 were already completely congested with traffic. In an attempt to address the growing need for roads, one of the greatest monsters in Massachusetts history was created. Like most monsters this was a hybrid of two things. The key power of this monster is Eminent domain which gives the government the authority to seize private property in the public interest if they compensate the owner. Sources, credits, photos, links and more information at LostMassachusetts.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lostmass/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lostmass/support

If you are driving through Ashland Mass you might notice something odd pop up on your GPS: a designation called “Workman's Circle Camp” and if you zoom in you will see streets arranged in a semi-circle. If this made you really curious and you turn off the main road to drive through you won't find anything that looks remotely like a camp of any kind.  This is a ghost on the map and its real name is a further ghost. In Yiddish it would have been called Der Arbiter Ring.  The 19th century saw a flood of European immigrants the east coast of the united states. Like many of these immigrant groups Jews from central Europe found themselves in the middle of what were at the time, the most crowded cities on the planet. These were cramped places full of tenements, sweatshops, poverty, oppression, crime and unfamiliar faces speaking dozens of different languages or dialects.  Out of this chaos emerged a movement to not only escape the city but to preserve culture. In 1927 the site of an old mill in Ashland was purchased by the Jewish Workmans Circle and became the site of a kind of tent city called the Golden Ring Camp. Listen to the episode to find out the full story and get all the information at Lostmassachusetts.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lostmass/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lostmass/support

Join Lost Massachusetts on this mystery road trip and what we found at the end of it...We take an unexpected tour of a liminal space inside the lost town of Southerton Mass. Never heard of Southerton? It was and still is there. You can see it too. Show notes, sources and more information at LostMassachusetts.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lostmass/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lostmass/support

We continue our investigations into Lost Dutch Mass (See Episode 25 Niew Nederlandt). On most early maps the area of current Boston Harbor is recorded as “Vos Haven”. Vos Haven is Dutch for Fox Harbor. This was no doubt named because of the abundance of foxes which are still prevalent in Massachusetts today. As the English gradually became dominant in the region and took more territory through a series of global and local conflict they replaced Dutch names with English ones. However, the English still had a problem with names that many people were already familiar with. The Puritans may have come up with a clever solution to make a particular place “english” while preserving the moniker travelers were used to. In order to understand this we have to plunge into the history of how Massachusetts capital got its name which on inspection starts to fall apart. The Puritan Colony capital went through a few iterations before a name was selected but it seems to have been pulled out of thin air. Stories and explanations may have been backfilled later. Listen to the episode to learn more. Also explained in detail is exactly how the Dutch lost their massive global empire. We reference Lotharingia by Simon Winder which covers the lost European country of Lotharingia. Not only is this a good reference for our topic it also illustrates how such large territories can be erased from maps and forgotten.  Show notes, sources and more information at LostMassachusetts.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lostmass/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lostmass/support