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Mabel Adelaide Kernan

The story of another veteran teacher at Wakefield Public Schools receives our Women’s History Month profile today. This one is particularly dear to our hearts, as you will see in her profile. The Wakefield Daily Item ran a page one story upon her retirement: “Miss Mabel Adelaide Kernan, of 20 Gould Street, principal of the…

March 29, 2025 in historic persons, History of Wakefield, MA, the historic town of Redding, Massachusetts, Wakefield history, Wakefield Schools.

Fascinating 1840 Broadside “South Reading”

Some things will have to speak for themselves.  This broadside, printed in 1840, was found in the archives of the Library of Congress.  Probably written by Lilley Eaton, no other information is presently known about this broadside.  But we’re on the hunt… Its description of two churches and the pond that rivals Nahant in its…

January 2, 2017 in History of Wakefield, MA, South Reading, Wakefield Schools.

The West Ward Schoolhouse

The history of Wakefield’s beloved “Little Red Schoolhouse, which has housed generations of Wakefield’s young. One of the oldest two-room schoolhouses in Massachusetts.

December 14, 2016 in History of Wakefield, MA, Wakefield Schools.

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