History of Bolton, 1738-1938, Part 18

Author: Bolton (Mass.)
Publication date: 1938
Publisher: 1938
Number of Pages: 346


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The natural beauties of Bolton are frequently remarked on by visitors. Brooks, meadows, intervales, and forests are to be found here. The roads are lined with shade trees and many specimen trees of noble proportions grace fields and lawns. The varying terrain invites all kinds of wild life; birds in particular are abundant, some of rare species. Every kind of native wild flower adorns the woodlands and meadows.


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BOLTON TODAY


Within the borders of the town are two picturesque ponds known as West Pond and Little Pond. At West Pond there is a County Health Camp for children. The Algonquin Council, Boy Scouts of America, owns an extensive and modern camp at Little Pond. Adequate bathing facilities at both ponds are available to the public.


The town is covered by a network of good roads and shows an increasing number of fine residences. Agriculture also seems firmly established, and is considerably above the average in quality and progressiveness. Numerous young orchards testify as to its future growth and stability. Land values are good and quality unusually excellent. It there- fore seems entirely probable that land will be used for both residential and agricultural purposes.


From its earliest days, Bolton has been a place which many have been proud to claim as their residence. On her two-hundredth birthday she may say, with William Allen White, "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yester- day and I love today."


INDEX


INDEX


Acadian refugees, 13, 26-27 Act of Incorporation, 5-6 Adams, Ame, 171 Adams, Reverend Henry, 100 Allen, Reverend Isaac, 69, 70, 72- 74, 76, 108, 127, 129, 160, 173 American Legion, 19, 242-243 Architecture, 99-100, 142-177 Atherton, Benjamin, 120-12I Atherton, Eliakim, 35, 122, 154, 184, 212


Babcock, David, 168, 216; David Babcock House, 168


Bacon-Dakin House, 159-160


Bacon, Doctor George A., 141, 199 Bacon, Noah, 159


Baker, Captain Samuel, 14, 31, 35, 122, 152, 200, 206; Captain Samuel Baker House, 152


Ball, Thomas, 180


Baptist Church, 17, 80, 90-97, 109, 133, 165, 213; parsonage, 94, 165-166


Barnard, Joab, 171, 202


Barnard, Joel, 171, 202-203 ; J. and J. Barnard House, 171 Barnes, Edwin, 54


Barnes, Fortunatus, 181 Barrett, Miss Ella, 141


Barrett-Goding House, 153-154 Barrett, Oliver, 107, 127, 153-154, 220 Battey, Thankful, 84 Bay Path, 10, 102-103, 113-114, 151, 161, 179, 180 Beach, Mrs. Jessie, 172, 223 Beaver hats, 204 Bell, Miss Rosina, 196-197 Bellows-maker, 220


Benner, Thomas E., 135


Berlin, 15, 138-139, 153, 181, 206 Berlin Road, 83, 106, 114, 155, 174, 181,213


Billings, Reverend Charles T., 79, 80


Blacksmiths, 154, 159, 161, 211-213 Blood, Captain Samuel, 123, 204 Bolton Association for the Raising of Fish, 235-236


Bolton-Berlin Road, 83. See also Berlin Road


Bolton Cooperative Telephone Company, 229


Bolton Grange, 236-237


Bolton Improvement Society, 230


Boltonite, IO


Bolton Shoe Company, 216-217


Bonazzoli, Giacomo, 145-146


Boston, 117, 188


Bowen, Miss Lucy, 141


Boylston, 133


Boy Scouts, 24I


" Braecroft," 162-163 Bricks, 161


Brick Store, 182, 197, 213, 226-227


Brickyards, 207-208


Brigham, Legrand L., 79, 166, 205, 236 Brigham, Mrs. Legrand L., 205


Brown, Arthur H., 171


Brown, Obededom, 167


Brown, Warren C., IOI


Bruce, Jonas, 222


Burnham, Frederick M., 148


Burns, Mrs. Charles, 153-154, 161


Burying Ground, Old, 103-106


Burying grounds, 102-II2


Butler, Michael, 203


Button-making, 223


Cabinet makers, 223 Camp Fire Girls, 240-24I Cards, wool, 220 Carlisle, 136


Caswell, Alcanah, 216


Cattle Show, 234 Cemeteries, 18, 102-II2


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INDEX


Centennial Temperance Union, 236 Center Schoolhouse, 93, 126, 213 Central Railroad, 231


Century Mills, 118, 169-170, 199- 200 Chaffee, Reverend Nathaniel Otis, 76 Chickering, Reverend John W., IO0-IOI


Christian Endeavor Society, 96


Churches, 62-IOI


Cider mills, 203-204


Citizens Temperance Movement, 237-238


Civic Federation, 60-61 Civil War, 49-59, 87


Clapp, Doctor J. Wilkinson, 149, 239


Clapp, Lowell T., 148, 182, 225


Clark, George B., 135-136


Clarke, Peter, 165


Clay, Charles L., 133 Clock, Town, 81


Cloth-making, 208, 218-219


Clubs, see Organizations


Collins, Abel, 54, III


Collins, Amos, III


Comb industry, 210-2II


Cook, George B., 54


Coopers, 154, 209-210


Cordwainer, see Shoemakers


Corser, George, 54-55


" The Country Manor," 67, 151, 19I County roads, 102, 116-117, 152 Cranberry bogs, 200 Crocker, Ezra, 55


Cunningham, Mrs. Naomi, 135, 175, 240 Cunningham, Simon, 176


Dakin, Herbert J., 159 Dakin, Joel, 167


Davenport, Reverend John S., 100


Davis, Blynn E., 136 Dolan, Reverend Edwin B., 95-96 Dow House, 172


Dow, William, 195


Early Settlers' Tomb, 102-103 Edes, D. O. N., 20, 60; D. O. N. Edes Post, American Legion, 242-243 Edes, Edward L., 55


Edes, Mrs. Francis, 160 Edes place, 173


Edes, Reverend Richard S., 19, 55, 59, 72-75, 132, 160


Electric lights, 20, 229


Emerson, Edward D., 17, 134, 162, 230, 238 Emerson School, 134-135, 212


Engine house, 16, 19


Evans, Amos, 223


Fairbank, Jabez, 25, 63, 65, 121, 155-156


Fairbank-Newton House, 174


Fairbank, Phineas, 174, 177


Farmers and Mechanics Club, 19, 234


Farnsworth, Franklin, 55 Federated Church, 102, 267


Felton, Arthur S., 195


Fiddler's Green, 9, 114, 115, 179, 209 Fire department, 21, 93


First Parish Church, 62-81, 143; parsonage, 163-164


Fish and Game Association, 20, 235-236 Forbes, Robert, 156, 209 Forbush, Jonathan, 203


4-H Clubs, 240 French and Indian War, 247


Friends, Society of, 80, 82-89, 106- 107, III-II2, II8; burying ground, III-II2; school, 125


Fry Burying Ground, 106


Fry Cemetery, 83 Fry, Charles E., 55


Fry, James, 226


Fry, James N., III, 170


Fry, John, 105, 107, 155, 168, 172; John Fry House, 155


Fry, Jonathan, 155, 220; Jonathan Fry House, 155


Fry, Thomas, 88, 107, 127, 155, 172 Fulling mill, 208


Fyfe family, 109-IIO


The Galaxy, 99 Gardner family, 164 Gardner-Powers House, 175 Gardner, Stephen P., 163, 174, 175


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Gazette, Lancaster, 97-99 Gilman, Reverend Nicholas P., 76 Girl Scouts, 242 Goddard, Luther, 92-93


Goding, Mrs. Harrison, 154


Goding House, 181, 209


Goss Controversy, 32-33, 66-67, 151 Goss, Reverend Thomas, 64-67, 105, 151, 181, 248


Grade schools, 132-133


Grange, 236-237


Grassie, Elizabeth, IIO


Grassie, George, IIO


Great Road, 166, 172, 174, 175, 176


Green, Fiddler's, 9, 114, 115, 179, 209


Green, Reverend Henry M., 77 Greenleaf, Doctor Daniel, 180


Grist mills, 199-203


Groton Road, 114, 115, 117


Hamilton, Mrs. Flora P., 157 Harvard, 4, 115, 133, 135, 136, 147, 179 Harvard Road, 208 Hastings, Thomas, 56 Hat making, 204-205, 226 Hayden, Thornton, 56 Hayes, Reverend John A., 79


Haynes, Amory, 177 Haynes family, 109 Haynes, Francis, 210 Haynes House, 208 Haynes, Miss Mary Elizabeth, 109 Haynes, Silas, 127, 210 Hazen, Frederick, 215 Headle, Reverend E. C., 78-79 High School, 131-132, 135 Hillside Church, 97-101, 203-204, 258, 261-262 Hog Swamp, 9, 114 Holden, Miss Esther D., 132


Holder, David, 164; David Holder House, 164 Holder, Francis T., 86, 164-165 Holder, Joseph, 170-171, 215, 216; Joseph Holder House, 170-17I Holman, Abraham, 173, 182, 227 Holman, Amory, 16, 50-51, 67, 74, 127, 150, 151, 176, 183-186, 188- 191, 217, 218, 232 Holman, Asa, 210


Holman family, 182


Holman mansion, 151. See also "The Country Manor"


Holman, Silas, 16, 47-48, 123, 137, 138, 151, 184 Holman Tavern, 182-186, 212


Holt, Edwin K., 56


Holt, Reverend Kilburn, 56, 94, 159 Homan, Walter, 88


Hopkins, John, 153


Houghton, Abel, 84


Houghton, Albert C., 56 Houghton family, 108


Houghton, Frank E., 109


Houghton, Henry, 91, 93, 109, 156


Houghton House, 156


Houghton, Jacob, II


Houghton, Jonas, 108-109, 210


Houghton, Jonathan, 163, 180


Houghton, Joseph, 156, 131, 172, 203, 209 Houghton, Josiah, 57 Houghton, Luther, 216


Houghton-Rowe House, 158


Houghton, Sanderson, 91, 156, 203


Houghton School, 131-132, 134, 135 Houghton, Thomas, 152, 154, 209; Thomas Houghton House, 154 Houghton, Timothy, 13, 26, 28 Houghton-Wheeler House, 163 Houses, old, 142-177 Hudson, 17-18, 114, 145, 195, 231 Hunting, Stephen, 57


Ibsen, John, 202 Improvement Society, 238-239 Indians, 3-4, 24, 113, 245 Industries, 199-227 Inns, 143-144, 147, 178-187


Jackson-Sprague House, 176 Jacques, Reverend George, IOI Jones, Charles H., 171 Jones, J. Wyman, 147-148, 238-239 Jones, Samuel, 181 Junior High School, 135


Kendall, Mary W., 112 Keyes, James, II Keys-Bonazzoli House, 145 Keys, James, 145


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INDEX


Keys, Joseph, 157


Keys' Pond, see Little Pond Kimmens House, 127, 161-162 Kimmens, John, 209 Kimmens, Mrs. Charles, 161 King Philip's War, 3-4, 24 King, Thomas, I


Kittredge, Darwin A., 173


Lafayette, 16, 148, 183, 259-260


Lancaster, 1-6, 69, 103, 114-115,


147, 166, 188-191, 231, 246, 251 Lancaster Gazette, 97-99 Lancaster Railroad, 18, 231 Legion Auxiliary, 243


Leonard, Reverend William, 77-78


Lexington, 36 Liberty pole, 234


Library, 137-141, I49, 238-239;


Friends', 85, 88


214-215,


Lime quarry, 10, 142, 245-246 Little Pond, 9, 18, 21, 118, 235 Littleton, 136


Long Hill, 113, 117; Long Hill Road, 114-115, 203


Longley, Nathaniel, 15, 26, 35


Longley, Nathaniel, Jr., 47, 127, 137, 155, 168 Longley-von Blomberg House, 168 Long Pond, 8 Lorway, Mrs. Gertrude, 151 Love, Nathaniel N., 136 Lovewell's War, 24


" Maple Lodge," 167 Maps, 9, 15, 16, 117 Marlborough, 1, 12, 114, 115


Marlborough Electric Company, 229-230


Marlborough Road, the Old, 166, 171, 199, 206, 209 Marsh, Reverend John L., 79 Maynard, George, 151 Meetinghouses, see Churches Mentzer family, 183 Mentzer Farm, 113 Mentzer, Raymond, 142, 215 Methodist Society, 101 Militia company, 30-31 Miner, Mrs. Aurilla, 233


Minerals, 8, 10 Monthly Meetings, see Friends Moore, Abraham, 121, 211-212 Moore-Bonazzoli House, 146 Moore, Caleb, 149, 158, 162, 225 Moore, Christopher C., 18, 75, 149-150, 162, 182 Moore-Clapp Cottage, 149-150


Moore, Cornelius, 93


Moore, John, 146


Moore, Peter, 166


Morse, Doctor Irene, 135


Nashoba Health Unit, 21, 135 Nashua River, 1, 8


New England Telephone and Tele- graph Company, 228-229


News-carrier, 193-194


Newton, Miss Caroline M., 133


Newton, Miss Fidelia C., 16, 141


Newton family, 109-IIO


Newton, Mrs. George, 174


Newton, Haven, 220-222


Newton, Nathaniel, 129


Newton, Reuben, 166


Nicholas, Rolla, 57


Nourse, Amos, 130


Nourse, Caleb, 129


Nourse, Henry S., 214


Nourse House, 160-161, 208


Nourse, Richard E., 160


Nurse, Stephen, Jr., 127


Ochre, 10 Old Burying Ground, 103-106 Old Marlborough Road, see Marl- borough Road Organizations, 234-243 Ostertag, William, 177


Paine, Frank A., 167 Pan, the, 9, 107-108, 128, 166, 181, 200, 213 Pan Cemetery, 18, 107-108 Pardee, Reverend Joseph N., 78-79, 81, 228, 230 Park, Pond, 16, 238-239


Parker, Doctor Amos, 165, 172, 193-194 Parker, Miss Mary Ann, 130 Paull, Austin R., 135


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Peabody, Reverend Mr., 100 Peabody, Thomas, 194 Pearlash works, 213 Peirce, John, 206 Pepperell, 135 Phillips, Philip, 143, 179


Pitman, J. A., 133


Pollard, Captain Amory, 170


Pollard-Bacon House, 169-170. See


also Century Mills Pollard, Curtis, 220 Pollard mills, see Century Mills and Pollard-Bacon House


Polley, Elnathan, 161, 212


Pond Park, 9, 238-239


Poor Farm, 13-14 Pope, Stephen, 170


Porter, Reverend Isaac F., 76-77


Post office, 181, 192-198


Post Road, 117 Potash works, 174, 213-214


Potter, Nathaniel, 206


Powder House, 16, 19


Powers, Amos, 213, 236


Powers, Aaron, 94-95, 157, 165, 167, 172


Powers, Frank A., 175 Powers, Mrs. Grace, 220-22I Prachnick, William, 168, 216 Pratt, George W., 57


Pride, Reverend Frank A., 94


Pump-making, 223 Putnam, Reverend John J., 75


Railroads, 18, 185, 190, 195, 231-233 Randall House, 167 Randall, Rufus, 167 Reform Club, 237-238


Revolutionary War, 32-46, 66-67, 122-123, 248-249 Richardson, Josiah, 12, 147, 180


Roads, 2, 13, 102-103, 113-119, 151, 161, 174-176, 179-181, 199, 206, 209, 213, 258; road taxes,


II7 Robbins, Jonathan, 18I Robie, Miss Mary, 132 Robinson, William, 227 "Roper Meadow," 168 Rowe, Everett, 109, 158 Rowlandson, Reverend Joseph, 2


Royal, Doctor Herbert, 135 Roys, Reverend Cyrus, 76 Russell, Howland, 148 "The Rustic Bard," 111-112


Saltonstall, Richard, 148 Sawmills, 152, 199-203 Sawyer, Mrs. Achsah Barrett, 128- I29 Sawyer, Amory Pollard, Jr., 60 Sawyer, Daniel, 167


Sawyer, Elijah, 161 Sawyer family, 102, 153, 169


Sawyer, Joel, 201, 212, 222


Sawyer, Joseph, 16, 199, 21I


Sawyer, Squire Joseph, 169, 226


Sawyer-Kittredge House, 173


Sawyer, Captain Oliver, 127, 154, 161-162, 212 Sawyer, Miss Ora, 226


Sawyer-Ostertag House, 177


Sawyer, Rufus, 129-130


Sawyer, Thomas, II


Sawyer, William, 103, 12I


Sawyer's Mills, 200


School Committee, 127, 132, 133, 140 Schools, 17, 84-85, 120-136, 155; districts, 121-123; Friends', 84- 85; singing schools, 15; Sunday school, 87, 96


Sears, Miss Clara Endicott, 179-180 Shirley, 133


Shoemakers, 166, 215-217


Silk manufacture, 218-219 Silversmiths, 222


Smith, Ichabod, 209


Smith, John L., 172, 195


Social Library, 137-140 Society of Friends, see Friends


Sons of Liberty, 234 South Cemetery, 67, 102-106 Spanish War, 59 Spectacle Hill, 114


Sprague, Mrs. Mary E., 176-177


Sprague, Doctor John, 146 Sprague, Walter L.,. 176 Stagecoaches, 184-186, 194-196, 212 Stanley, John B., 57 State Police, 153 Still River, 8, 114, 210


188-191,


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Still River Baptist Church, 91-92 Stone, George H., 57-58


Stone, Reverend Thomas T., 76, 175 Stores, 149-150, 181-182, 225-227 Stow, 117, 137-138, 196 Sugar Road, 9, 143, 163, 179 Superintendent of Schools, 133-134 Swan, Doctor William, 184


Syze, Reverend Albert, 88, 155, 195-196


Tailors, 220-222 Tansey, Roscoe, 165


Tanyards, 152, 170, 176, 205-207


Taxes, 13, 117, 120, 140-141, 266-267 Taylor, George, 213


Telephone, 19, 228-229


Temple, John, 181, 216


Tomb, Early Settlers', 102-103


Topography, 7-10


Town clock, 21


Town House, 17, 58-59, 93, 101, 131, 140, 183, 203; Town House Road, 116, 118


Town line, 12 Town meetings, II-22, 35-37, 49- 50, 51, 58-59 Town officers, 12-22 Town seal, 19


Vaughan's Hill, 10, 115 von Blomberg, Baron Frary, 168


Walley, Reverend John, 67-68 Walton, Daniel G., 130 War of 1812, 46-48


Wars, 3-4, 24, 32-48, 61, 66-67, 87, I22-123, 248-249; Civil War, 49-59, 87; King Philip's War, 3-4, 24; Revolution, 32-46, 66- 67, 122-123, 248-249; War of 1812, 46-48; World War, 60-61 Wataquadock Hill, 3, 7-8, 9-10, 24, 113, 114, 124, 180, 210 Welch Pond, 7 West Cemetery, 108-110 West Pond, 9, 18, 102, 117, 152, 200, 235 Wheeler, Abraham, 84 Wheeler, Amos C., 163


Wheeler, Asa, Jr., 172-173; Asa Wheeler House, 172-173 Wheeler, Caleb, 181 Wheeler, Charles G., 58 Wheeler family, III, 144, 146 Wheelwrights, 201, 211-213


Whips, 220


Whitcomb, Colonel Asa, 70


Whitcomb, Eleazar, 151-152, 161


Whitcomb, David, 11, 179 Whitcomb, Hezekiah, 153


Whitcomb's Inn, 179


Whitcomb, John, 12, 13, 25, 26, 28, 33, 39, 105-106, 142, 182, 2II, 214, 244-249 Whitcomb, Jonathan, 181


Whitcomb, Josiah, 143


Whitcomb-Mentzer House, 142


Whitman, Thomas, 58


Whitney, David, 109, 160


Whitney Memorial Library, 109, I4I


Whitney, the Misses, 19, 14I


Wilder, Caleb, 213


Wilder-Clapp House, 148-149


Wilder, John, 148-149, 150


Wilder Mansion, 114, 117, 146-148, 180-181, 225 Wilder, S. V. S., 97-101, 146-148, 183, 201-202, 216, 218, 250-265 Wilder, William, 150 Wilder-Worthen House, 150-151


Withington-Cunningham I74


House,


Withington, George R., 174 Wolfe, Reverend Walter G. W., 79 Woman's school, 124


Women's Christian Temperance Union, 239


Woodbury, Charles, 227


Woodbury, Elijah, 58 Woodbury, Luke, 223


Woodbury, William, 183; tavern, 183


Worcester, 117 Worcester County, 15


World War, 60-61 ; Memorial, 20, 61 Worthen, Mrs. Eva M., 150


Wright, Reverend Phineas, 68- 69, 160; Phineas Wright House, I60


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