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  • Murder at Breakheart Hill Farm

    The Shocking 1900 Case that Gripped Boston's North Shore

    by Douglas L. Heath, Alison C. Simcox ...
    On a dark, rainy night in October 1900, George E. Bailey, caretaker of Breakheart Hill farm, disappeared. He no longer made his daily milk runs to town or stopped at the tavern for his favorite cherry rum. Some suspected foul play right away, as Bailey's "wife" had recently gone to Maine, leaving Bailey alone with his farmhand, John C. Best, who was known to be a drunk and a potentially violent ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Lost Mill Village of Middlesex Fells

    by Douglas L. Heath, Alison C. Simcox ...
    Series series Brief History
    One of the earliest mill communities in the Massachusetts Bay Colony formed along Spot Pond Brook, a few miles north of Boston. Thomas Coytmore built the first mill in 1640 at the brook's downstream end in "Mistick Side" (present-day Malden). Other mills sprang up along the brook as well. Today, most of Spot Pond Brook is hidden in culverts beneath the busy streets of Malden and Melrose. However, ... Read more

    $17.96 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Middlesex Fells

    by Alison C. Simcox, Douglas L. Heath ...
    Series series Images of America
    Comprising over 2,500 acres of forest, wetlands, and rugged hills, Middlesex Fells, just seven miles north of Boston, is one of the nation's first state parks and contains the world's first public land trust, Virginia Wood. For centuries, the Fells provided rich hunting and fishing grounds for Native Americans. In 1632, Gov. John Winthrop and others explored the area and named the largest pond ... Read more

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  • Lake Quannapowitt

    by Alison C. Simcox, Douglas L. Heath ...
    Series series Images of America
    Lake Quannapowitt is named for James Quonopohit, a member of the Pawtucket tribe of Nipmuc Indians and signer of the 1686 deed selling land to European colonists. A town called Redding (now Wakefield) developed on the shore of the lake that provided colonists with a bounty of fish, including salmon and alewives, until mills stopped their passage upstream. The town remained rural until the Boston ... Read more

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    Murder at Breakheart Hill Farm

    The Shocking 1900 Case that Gripped Boston's North Shore

    by Douglas L. Heath, Alison C. Simcox ...
    Narrated by Tom Beyer ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 43 min

    On a dark, rainy night in October 1900, George E. Bailey, caretaker of Breakheart Hill farm, disappeared. He no longer made his daily milk runs to town or stopped at the tavern for his favorite cherry rum. Some suspected foul play right away, as Bailey's "wife" had recently gone to Maine, leaving Bailey alone with his farmhand, John C. Best, who was known to be a drunk and a potentially violent ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook