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…
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,…
Take a narrated tour of parts of historic Wakefield while seated on a comfortable Old Town Trolley car on Saturday, September 28th, 2019. See the buildings that you pass every day with new eyes! The history of the town comes to life through the stories of Wakefield’s houses and structures, and the men and women…
Settled in 1639, established as the town of Redding in 1644, re-established as the new town of South Reading in 1812, the town changed its name in 1868. All anniversaries, but which is most significant?
Notes on this courageous woman: (Will be writing this up in finished form, but wanted to tell her story for Women’s History Month. Mrs. Margaret Hamilton Born in Rochester, New York in October 19, 1840, Hamilton had been educated by the Sisters of Charity (founded in 1809 by Mother Elizabeth Anne Seton). …
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