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Abington Through Time (America Through Time)

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When Abington used to be founded in 1812, it used to be much larger than it’s now. At the moment, it encompassed both East Abington and South Abington, which these days are Rockland and Whitman. But a schism in 1874 separated the three communities, leaving Abingtonians to carry their banner forward on my own. By that time the town used to be in its heyday as a shoe manufacturing center, but it surely also held a curious place in the history of the anti-slavery movement of the pre-Civil War years, as a gathering spot for emancipation rallies at what is still Abington’s most hallowed ground, Island Grove.
As the twentieth century progressed, Abington watched the shoe industry centralize in different places and settled comfortably into place as a suburban Boston community. In 2012, it joined Rockland and Whitman in celebrating their common bicentennial, honoring both the past and the present.
In Abington Through Time, sign up for historians Don Cann and John Galluzzo, authors of Abington in Vintage Postcards, for a walk up and down the principle streets and back roads to see what remains, and what has changed in Abington during the last century and a half.

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