Margaret Carlson broke barriers throughout her life: a career-minded woman who started her own business in the 1950s, and the first woman to sit on Boston’s powerful “Vault” committee in 1977.
After two unsuccessful attempts in the United States’ early decades to create a lasting national bank, the country had no central bank for much of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century.
Over a decade after credit unions were legalized in Massachusetts three groups of telephone workers in different parts of the state all established their own credit unions on Nov. 8, 1922.
A massive fire devastated Chelsea for the second time in its history 49 years ago this month. What followed was an investment boom still paying dividends today.
The 2022 equivalent of $3.52 million was all Boston Red Sox owner Charles Taylor needed to buy the land that became the storied ballpark over the course of 1911 and 1912.
April is a historic month for Massachusetts credit unions. Not only were they legalized April 15, 1909, the first such institution in the U.S. was established just days before in New Hampshire.
One of the most destructive financial crises in American history hove into the public eye on Feb. 26, 1893, when a vital railroad went bankrupt and set off a four-year depression.
Disaster struck a Brighton building site on a cold day in January 1971 when around two-thirds of the floors on a 16-story luxury condominium tower under construction pancaked onto one another and fell to the ground.
