by Nancy Bertrand For a few spring weeks each year, the Church Street path flanking the Old Burying Ground and the Lake bursts into bright and beautiful bloom. The “Floral Way” comes to life in blossoming pink and white profusion, proclaiming the arrival of spring and the promise of summer to come. Those who enjoy…
by Nancy Bertrand Not all of our ”Women in Wakefield” profiles end happily. Unfortunately, at least one of them ended very sadly indeed. This is the story of Lydia Dustin. Lydia and her husband Josiah were among the first settlers here in the then brand-new town then named Reading. (But of course, the majority of those first settlements…
Wakefield’s Women: During the month of March, “Women’s History Month,” the Wakefield Historical Society will be publishing the biographies of some of Wakefield’s Women from the earliest settlers. At the end of the month, all of the biographies will be published at the Society’s website. The sixth of nine children, Harriet Flint was born and brought…
INDIAN DEED OF LYNN AND READING To all Christian People, To whom this present Deed of Confirmation and Alienation shall come, David Kunkshamooshaw, who, by credible intelligence, is grandson to old Sagamore George-No-Nose, so called, alias Wenepowweekin, sometime of Rumney Marsh, and sometimes at or about Chelmsford of ye colony of ye Massachyets, so called,…
A Natural and Cultural History of the Wakefield Area before the Arrival of the Europeans by Jim Bradley (from “Wakefield: 350 Years by the Lake” published by Wakefield 350 in 1994) Image: photograph of an “Indian Cave” from the 1894 History of Wakefield, Reading & North Reading. The Town of…
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