This is exactly right.

Here's where we are.

Here's where we are in the story of Fall River, Massachusetts, and the misfortune that has befallen it for almost 200 years.

In 1843, two little boys discovered a cannon behind a large warehouse, and they ignited it.

The dry conditions and nearby woodshavings created a firestorm and the city was nearly ruined.

Four people died, at least one of them probably from cardiac arrest, all because of two curious little boys who were never identified

in the newspapers. But one of the little boys may have lived right across the street

from the warehouse. It would make sense because that boy was

10-year-old William Darling and he lived in the home with his mother, Eliza Hathaway

Darling Borden and his stepfather Laudwick Borden's uncle.

That made Laudwick Lizzie Borden's great uncle and Eliza her great aunt.

We'll talk more about Eliza and her background in a bit, but first let's

consider the strange coincidence of the great fire of Fall River in 1843 and the

Bordens living right across the street.

Relative Carrie Nolte says,

the connection is odd.

They were there.

They were living across the street from the block that was burned. It literally was across the street that everything just went up and I mean she would have had a little boy who would have been in the neighborhood probably playing and there is every chance that it was her little boy by her first marriage that was one of the boys that started the conflagration.

That sounds reasonable and heartbreaking for Fall River.

Who could the people there really blame to little boys?

You know, I'm sure it looked like a hellscape. People had to

take others into their homes and allow them to stay with them because their homes

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