BRYAN EATON/Staff photo. Bethany Dorau of Historic New England travelled to France to visit the grave of Newburyport native Eben Bradbury, Jr. who was killed in World War 1 where she placed a medal from Towle manufacturing and earth from his Bromfield Street home. One of the letters that Bradbury's father sent to him dated May 19, 1918.

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