Nicknamed The Garden City, Newton is a prosperous western suburb of Boston, composed of 13 villages instead of a central downtown area. Many of these villages, like Newton Centre, are well worth visiting, with pedestrian-friendly streets endowed with locally owned stores, restaurants and other services. Each village developed at a different time, most around a …
The seat of Harvey County in south-central Kansas has a unique place in Kansas history. For a time this was a sketchy town in the Old West, before the railroads enabled a wave of Mennonite immigration from the old Kingdom of Prussia and Russian Empire. The Mennonites brought with them Turkey Red hard winter wheat, …
Sitting 30 miles east of Des Moines, Newton is a city that developed quickly in the early 20th century as the “Washing Machine Capital of the World”. A driving force behind that was the Maytag Washing Machine Company, which was eventually bought out by Whirlpool. Even today, the Maytag name is omnipresent in Newton, given …