Born just two years after the town officially changed its name to Wakefield, Eva Gowing was the daughter of Horace and Louisa (Day) Gowing, who had moved here from Wilmington, where the Gowing family name was well known to historians as one of the region’s pioneer families. She grew up in Wakefield and graduated from…
Today’s “Women in Wakefield” profile is one that was only recently discovered. It focuses on Miss Sophia Knight. Sophia Knight was born in 1820 and by the 1860 Census, she was living with her family in South Reading. When the war broke out, she determined to devote herself to help the “freedmen.” Remarkable among women…
Today’s Historic Wakefield Women salute looks at Miss Annie Warren, who served in Wakefield Public Schools for most of her life. A lineal descendant of Moses Warren, of Waltham, who fought at Bunker Hill and Dorchester Heights, Annie was born in Maine and came to this town as a child. Her three brothers had fought…
Today’s “Women in Wakefield” profile is on Hannah Hemingway Wakefield; her biography shows a bit about how women were educated and gives a peek into one of the town’s first institutions of higher learning, the South Reading Academy. Hannah was Cyrus Wakefield’s sister, eight years younger, she was born on the family farm in Roxbury,…
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.
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