“When summer vacation came, many of the Indian students in the school preferred working rather than spending their meager cash paying car fare back to their homes in Oklahoma,” according to historian Julius Miner. “Miss Helen and Miss Jessie Townsend lent their influence in having them come to Monterey to work on the farms. It was at the time when the town’s people began taking summer boarders…” LEARN MORE

Indiscriminate and belligerent European encroachment brought Indian retaliation in New England, culminating in Metacomet’s Rebellion, better known as King Philip’s War, in 1675. Native inhabitants came close to pushing English colonists out of New England. Victories including a raid on Plimouth Plantation gave brief hope of success, but European settlers rallied. LEARN MORE

Militiamen singly and in companies were relieved to reach Sheffield township on their way to New York province to skirmish during the Seven Years War, 1754‐1763. It was a long trek east from Blandford, the last Massachusetts homestead town before they traversed the dense Greenwoods on their way to the Housatonic River valley. LEARN MORE