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Mary G. Hopkins and the Origins of Village Improvement in Antebellum Stockbridge, Massachusetts

Kirin J. Makker
Landscape Journal, August 2015, 34 (1) 1-14; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/lj.34.1.1
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