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100
  •  Fitchburg men captured at the Battle of Ball’s Bluff were confined to this famous prison in Richmond, Virginia.
  • LIBBY PRISON
100
  •  Kansas had a nickname before the Civil War while settlers fought over whether to be a slave or a free state.   What was the nickname?


BLEEDING KANSAS

100
  •  Before the town of Fitchburg was founded, it was part of which neighboring town?

LUNENBURG

100
  • This famous captive of King Philip’s War spent one night in what is now Fitchburg’s Rollstone Hill before being ransomed back at Redemption Rock.


MARY ROWLANDSON

100
  •   This major league player and coach from Fitchburg has a monument to him in West Fitchburg near the British-American Club.

PAT MORAN

200
  • Martha Goodrich, a 42 year -old nurse from Fitchburg, answered a plea for army nurses from this Superintendent of Nurses.

DOROTHEA DIX

200
  • During the war, several Fitchburgers living in Lawrence were killed in a raid led by this guerilla fighter.

QUANTRILL

200
  • In what 20th century year did the Nashua River flood so much that Crocker Field was underwater?


1936

200
  • These anti-slavery sisters from the South spoke in Fitchburg where they refused to take sugar in their tea, since sugar was raised by slaves.

THE GRIMKE SISTERS

200
  • The Nashaway  played this game with sticks that is still a sport played by girls and boys today.

 

LACROSSE

300
  • Before Fitchburg Fusilier soldiers left for war, they were given a free dinner and this medical treatment.

 VACCINATIONS

300
  • When Kansas became a state, this Fitchburger who also went to the California Gold Rush, became its first governor but was later impeached.

CHARLES ROBINSON

300
  •  The shanties in the part of town called “The Patch” housed Irish workers and their families as they built what?


THE RAILROAD

300
  • She inherited millions from her father, sponsored a home for working girls, and gave a four story brick mansion to be a men’s club in Fitchburg.


LUCY FAY

300

This Fitchburg Olympian was one of the few athletes to complete in both the summer and winter Olympics

ART LONGSJO

400
  • This Fitchburg leader traveled to England to discourage the British from supporting the Confederacy.

ALVAH CROCKER

400
  • Josiah Trask, a teenager and printer’s devil, started what important institution in Lawrence, Kansas.


A NEWSPAPER

400
  • Deposited upon Rollstone Hill, the Boulder traveled via glacier to Fitchburg from which nearby mountain?

MT. MONADNOCK

400
  • She was a poet who wrote “Ode to Fitchburg” which at one time was memorized by the city’s schoolchildren

CAROLINE MASON

400
  •  Erica Lawler, a Fitchburger and a Cushing Academy graduate, became an Olympian in 2010 in what sport?

ICE HOCKEY

500
  • During the war, Fitchburgers planted more of these vegetables to be stored in jars with molasses to be send to the troops.

POTATOES

500
  • This famous Free-Stater, later captured at Harpers Ferry, tried to raise money for Kansas Free-Staters in nearby Concord, but he did not come to Fitchburg.

JOHN BROWN

500
  • Most captives taken from Fitchburg during the French and Indian Wars were taken to this country controlled by the French to be ransomed back to their families.


CANADA

500
  • She was an art teacher in Fitchburg as well as the daughter of our first mayor.

ELEANOR NORCROSS

500
  •  This ice skater, who never got to the Olympics due to World War II, had an ice rink named after her.


CARMELITA LANDRY