Tag: Almon Gage
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“Where Sandwich Began: The Four Corners of 1845”
Three settlers. Four tracts. One intersection. In 1845, the land at Main and Center became the foundation of Sandwich, where separate claims merged into the ground on which the town would grow.
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When Sandwich Was Nearly Named Almon
A Naming Story From the Town’s Earliest Days Part of the Almon Gage Series In the early years of Sandwich’s development, the future town nearly bore the name of one of its principal founders, Almon Gage (1804–1880).Before Sandwich was known as Sandwich, it briefly stood at a crossroads of identity. In the early 1850s, as…