Talk:History of Massachusetts

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more ideas?

Fantastic article! But I have two ideas that may be worthwhile, or not. (1) There is a void in this article for the years 1787 to 1820, and in fact, between those years a lot of action was occurring on the Massachusetts coast. Salem, Ma. was the wealthiest place in America in the 1790s, due to its worldwide shipping. ["The financial and physical risks taken by the merchants and crews made Salem by 1800 the Nation's richest city per capita." [National Park Service, Salem: Maritime Salem in the Age of Sail (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Interior, 1987), p. 17.] Ocean-going vessels from Salem were the first American ships to reach Russia [Ibid, p. 109] and were among the earliest to reach China (they were the first from New England, but the very first American ship to reach China had left from N.Y. [Ibid, p. 110.] Perhaps these are facts worth mentioning in the state's history? (2) And what about the most infamous crime of murder in 19th century America, the double-murder at the Lizzie Borden home in Fall River, in 1892? So we have the wealthiest place in America in 1800, and the most ghastly place, in a manner of speaking, in 1892. If these topics are deemed worthy of inclusion, I could add them, or someone else. Thank you for considering these suggestions.