HeyJaredThe Curioustorian
A look at history’s odd corners—told through photos, puzzles, and memories, and with occasional detour.
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Read the Plate Sideways (opens the original)
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A companion to Four Housepower. The post carries one map, the before and the after, because one is all a post can carry without turning into an atlas. This is the rest of it, at a size worth zooming into.The source is the G. W. Bromley atlas of the City of Boston, the fire-insurance style property atlas that shows every building footprint, what it was built of, and who owned the lot. South Boston is plate 31. Two editions matter here: 1910, the neighborhood before the Dorchester tunnel, and 1919
The Church That Walked (opens the original)
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Jigsaw for September 26, 2026: Lake Street, Chicago<img alt="A house up on timbers in the middle of Central Street, a horse walking a circle at a capstan" class="sizing-normal" height="427.955140
Four Housepower (opens the original)
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Jigsaw for September 19, 2026<img alt="Four horse-powered capstans in a Boston street in 1916, moving a three-story wooden house" class="sizing-normal" height="556.92" src="https://substackcdn.com/image
One Horse (opens the original)
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Jigsaw for September 12, 2026: https://puzzles.curioustorian.com/one-horse<img alt="A house up on timbers in the middle of Central Street, a horse walking a circle at a capstan" class="sizing-normal" height=
White River Junction, 1919 (opens the original)
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<img alt="The north end of Main Street in White River Junction, Vermont, showing the Square in 1919, colorized" class="sizing-normal" height="692" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZJu5!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubsta
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