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From: "BBFFRRPP" <>
Subject: [GM-L] RAILROAD ... HISTORICAL SOCIETIES (plus MIDDLESEX CANAL)
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 16:13:53 -0500


Hello,

My best friend lost a grandfather around 1925, and was told that he was
killed in a train accident. The youngest child in this Pacheco family
from Cambridge, MA, was about one year old.

And, my grandmother was always told that her birth mother was killed in a
train accident while traveling ... when she was about one year old. This
would have occurred to a Miss ____ Dexter around 1900. (My research now
shows that this might not have been true, but that her birth mother probably
died during childbirth.)

I just went to www.google.com and put in the words, Railway Disasters.
One of the sites I found was the following:

http://www.nhrhta.org/htdocs/boston.htm

And it looks like their monthly magazine has had some great articles,
including some great photos.

I also know about this web site:

http://members.verizon.net/~vze264n3/bmrrhs/

Does anyone know of any other Railroad Historical Societies which may be of
interest ... to New England researchers?

Betty (near Lowell, MA)

P.S. There is now a Middlesex Canal Museum:

http://www.middlesexcanal.org/



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