The Floral Way

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…

The “Indian Deed”

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,…

The First Settlers

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…

Trolley Tours

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…