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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWWE_huguenot-settlement_Oxford-MA.html
Up this road on Mayo's Hill, are the remains of a bastioned fort built by Huguenots driven from France by the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Their prosperous settlement was interrupted by Indian attacks in 1696, and finally abandoned in 1704.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWWC_the-johnson-massacre_Oxford-MA.html
John Johnson and three children were killed by Indians in his house on this spot August 25, 1696. His wife was saved by her brother.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWWB_old-maanexit-ford_Oxford-MA.html
From this ford branched trails to Woodstock, Brookfield and Sturbridge. This way ran the Post Route established in 1672 "to goe monthly" from New York to Boston. Here, June 5, 1676, Major Talcott's Connecticut troops passed to join the final campa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWD6_clara-bartons-birthplace_Oxford-MA.html
One mile westward Clara Barton, "the angel of the battlefield," was born in 1821. A volunteer nurse in the Civil War, she served the International Red Cross in the Franco-Prussian War, founded the American Red Cross and served as its president for…
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