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			1660 - 1725 A succession of conflicts transforms indigenous/ colonial relations.
1704 Deerfield Massacre
			1770 Copley paints Paul Revere
1824 Pilgrim Hall museum opened in Plymouth
			1825 Connecticut Historical Society founded
1835 Rhode Island Historical Society collects materials from Indian graves.
			1842 Wadsworth Atheneum opens in Hartford
1866 Peabody Museum founded at Harvard
			1868 Deerfield first exhibits door from "Indian House"
1869 American Museum of Natural History founded in New York
			1869 Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association founded in Deerfield, Massachusetts
1870 Boston Museum of Fine Arts founded
			1870 Metropolitan Museum of Art founded in New York
1880 Memorial Hall dedicated in Deerfield
			1881 Nantucket's Coffin House restored
1887 Ellen Rounds repairs the "Damm Garrison"
			1900 Old Gaol opened in York, Maine
1901 Maine Historical Society opens Wadsworth-Longfellow House
			1903 New Bedford Whaling Museum founded
1905 Paul Revere House saved from demolition
			1907 Period rooms opened in Essex Institute
1908 House of Seven Gables Settlement Association founded
			1926 John D. Rockefeller funds Colonial Williamburg in Virginia
1928 A New York surgeon founds the Abbe Museum on Mount Desert Island, Maine
			1929 Henry Ford funds Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan
1930 Nantucket Whaling Museum opened
			1930 Mystic Seaport maritime museum begins operation
1931 Gladys Tantaquidgeon (1899-2005) founds the Tantaguidgeon Museum at Mohegan.
			1931 Grant Wood paints :The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
1935 Wells Historical Museum (precurser to Old Sturbridge Village) open
			1935 Harold Tantaquidge reconstructs a Mohegan village
1942 Farmer's Museum in Cooperstown, New York established
			1947 Shelburne Museum established
1947 Old Sturbridge Village created
			1947 Plimoth Plantation founded
1952 Historic Deerfield founded
			1958 Strawbery Banke Museum opens in Portsmouth, NH
1987 Archaeologists begin excavating historic sites threatened by Boston's Big Dig.
			1998 Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center Opens
2001 Peabody Museum at Harvard continues to repatriate human remains
			2002 Church at Mohegan restored and museum installed.
2004 Memorial Hall Museum launches new website on "The Many Stories of 1704