William Blackstone

William Blackstone (?-1675) is the first English settler of common day Boston, then known as Shawmut Point. There is little remaining information regarding his early life. He came from England and stayed in the Boston area around 1625. He lived ...

Blackstone Hotel

Nathan Stone built the Blackstone Hotel in 1930. It provided a place for Jews to stay at a time when "Restricted Clientele" signs were prevalent elsewhere along the Beach. In 1954, under the management of Nathan's son Alfred, the hotel ...

Lady Carrington and The Blackstone Canal

If this were the year 1828 you could climb aboard the barge Lady Carrington and travel by water all the way to Worcester.

It was October 8, 1828 and the Blackstone Canal had opened for passenger and cargo service between Providence ...

Blackstone College

Three blocks south is the campus of the former Blackstone Female Institute, after 1915 Blackstone College for Girls, a teacher-training school that opened in 1894 with some 75 students including 29 boarders. James Cannon Jr., a controversial Methodist bishop and ...

Blackstone

Blackstone was first known as Blacks and Whites, after two rival late 18th-century taverns. One of these taverns, Schwartz (Blacks) Tavern, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, still stands. The town was renamed for the English jurist Sir ...

Blackstone Hotel

The first Art Deco skyscraper in Fort Worth, the Blackstone Hotel was erected in 1929 for wealthy cattleman C. A. “Gus” O'Keefe, who named it after a visit to the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago. The St. Louis architectural firm of ...

Blackstone Female Institute

Blackstone, Virginia

The Blackstone Female Institute was conceived in 1891 by George Pierce Adams, a Blackstone merchant, and Joshua Soule Hunter, a Methodist minister. Originally designed as a school to prepare young female students to enter Randolph-Macon Women’s College, it was ...