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Bounty fight of 1881, 227-233
Bowdoin College, 389
Bowling alley, 298
Boxborough, 6, 42, 101, 131, 144, 148, 164, 182, 203, 217, 250, 311, 320, 335, 351, 359, 361, 392
Boxborough Grange, 361
Boylston Hall, 183
Boys' Industrial Institute, 310
Brabrook house, 75, 258
Bradley Stone, deposition of, 171
Brainerd Presbyterian Church, 138
Brattleboro, Vt., 361
Breaking out roads, 227
Bridge, South Acton, 301
Brighton, 70
British casualties, April 19th, 1775, 84
British imports, 63 British Navy, 128
British Silver War Medal, 334
British spies, 67
Broadway, New York, 183
Bromfield, 204
Brookfield expedition, 9, 11
Brookline, 68, 70, 131, 344, 391
Brooklyn (ball team), 224 Brooks Tavern, 45, 95, 101, 117, 120, 121, 122, 123 Brown University, 280, 319 Bull, 367 Bull Moose Party, 260 Bullard place (old parsonage) 91, 98, 123 Bunker Hill, 84, 85, 267, 269, 399, 401 Bunker Hill Historical Society, 264, 269
Burials, superintendent of, 194
Burbeck & Tenney, 147, 200
Butcher carts, 272
Butter and cheese factory, 202
Cahawa (steamship) 418
Cambridge, 10, 93, 131
Camp Devens, 359 Canadian Silver Memorial Cross, 334
Cannon secreted, 68
Canteens, 1, 74
Canton, Mass., 356
Cape Cod, 118
Carbondale, Ill., 210
Carding machines, 52
Carpet manufacturing, 212
Carlisle, 5, 7, 25, 49, 50, 51, 52, 59, 97, 124, 125, 131, 164, 204, 217, 250, 300, 334, 387
Carrsville, battle of, 420
Carthage, N.Y., 390
Catholic Church, 178, 315, 417
Cattaraugus, N.Y., 221
Cattle inspector, 272
Cedar Creek, Va., 419
Celebration of 1895, 264
Cemeteries, North, 25, 37, 63,; Wood-
lawn, 15, 35, 37, 63, 64, 114, 181, 194,
195, 205, 210, 221, 222, 286, 289, 336,
348, 355, 362; Mt. Hope, 6, 125, 156, 241, 308, 314
Census, 55, 440
Centenarian, 217
Centennial celebration, 140
Central Hall, 281
Chadwick & Merriam, 237
Chancellorsville, Va., 422
Chapel, Woodlawn, 348
Chapel, 138, 139, 152, 315
Chapel, Mt. Hope, 308
Charcoal, 9
Charivari, 298
Charles City County, Va., 313
Charles Thomas (Steamboat) 418
Charlestown, 10, 70, 370
Charlestown Branch, 175
Charlton City, 236
Chelmsford, 3, 4, 6, 10, 21, 24, 25, 51, 53, 82, 89, 217, 300, 395
Chelsea, 270, 291
Chestnut blight, 143
Chickahominy River, 196
Church and state separation, 130
Church singing, 101, 106
Churns, 200
Chicago, 224
446
Christian Union, 294 Cider jelly, Littlefield & Robinson Co., 253 Cider mill, 202, 262 Citrus trade, 322 City Guards (of Lowell) 180
Civil War, 172, 187, 242, 290, 313, 418, 422, 424, 427, 431, 433 Civil War markers, 290 Civil War, official records, 249 Clark plan of accounting, 337 Cleveland, 224 Clinton, 149, 341
Co. E., 6th Mass. Regiment, 174, 183, 184, 249
Coffee, 218 Cold Harbor, battle of 423
Cold storage plant, 202
Cold summer of 1816, 132 Collector of customs, 230
College Point, L.I., 356
Colorado Springs, 255, 309
Colored troops, 389 Columbia University, 392 Comic opera, 344
Committee of correspondence, 62, 66, 86, 89, 99 Committee of vigilance, 404 Common, 118, 128, 142, 143, 209, 283, 289 Communion service, 241, 249 Commuters, 307
Compulsory school attendance law, 250 Conant & Co., 311
Concord, 2, 4, 7, 10, 14, 24, 42, 49, 50,
51, 64, 66, 69, 77, 86, 94, 101, 121, 126, 131, 159, 164, 165, 213, 217, 250, 274, 284, 300, 303, 313, 316, 320, 336, 337, 341, 387
Concord Artillery, 189
Concord Bridge, 51, 75, 77, 81, 159, 221, 247, 266, 360, 398 Concord celebration of 1875, 218
Concord Fight, 77, 85, 159, 170, 219, 269, 398
Concord, Maynard & Hudson electric lines, 300 Concord & Montreal R.R., 215 Concord Rifles, 190 Concord River, 77
Concord Village, 2, 5, 7, 15, 17, 18, 19, 21-25, 35 Congregation, 90
Congregational Church, 155, 221, 248, 269, 271, 315, 327, 333, 349, 407 Connecticut, 113, 348 Constables, 31, 114 Constitution (steamboat), 418 Constitution of the United States, 313 Continental Army quotas, 86, 89, 96, 387
Continental Congress, 87 Controllers Congress, 337 Coolidge school (Maynard) 353 Coopers, 52 Copper shop, 150 Cordwainers, 52
Cornerstone (monument) 164 Counterfeit money, 101 County convention (1774) 64 Craftstrip, 365 Crossing tenders, 216
Cuba, 179 Cucumbers, 321
Cuff links, 249
Culler of staves, 52
Cuticura products, 324
Daniel White's mill, 313
Dancing school, 295 Dartmouth (ship) 62
Dartmouth College, 131, 138, 388, 389, 390, 391, 397
Daughters of the American Revolution, 360
Davis Blues, 129, 249
Davis Guards, 167, 174, 182, 183, 185, 187, 188, 189, 192, 216
Davis, King garage, 323
Declaration of Independence, 92, 173
Deep Bottom, Va., 419
Deputy Commissioner of Education, 335 Democratic Party, 157, 178, 395 Departure of Minute Men (painting) 74, 263, 294
Deposition Committee, 141
Deposition of Bradley Stone, 171, 404
Deserted House, battle of, 420, 432
Dewey & Almy Chemical Co., 140, 363 Diabetes, 390
Director of Demonstration Work, 319 Discontinuance of May meeting, 138 Dissenters, 130
Distress, 99
Dorchester, 68, Dorchester Heights, 387
Dog racing, 355
Dogs, 178
Dracut, 117, 396 Dramatics, 255
Drinking fords, 314
Drum, 247 Drum Corps, 189, 245
Duncan Construction Co., 330
Dunstable, 10, 213 Durant's Tavern, 124
Dutch yoke, 242
Dwight's block, 150, 217, 416
Dwinnell, Hayward & Co., 218 Eagle, 165
Early New England Psalmody, 106
East Acton post office, 215, 289 East Dorset, Vt., 202 Eastern States Farmers' Exchange, 140
Economic Machinery Co., 361
Education (state board) 250 Education fund, state, 142
Edwards-Quimby Post, 340
Eighteenth Ammendment, 323, 335 Election day, change of date, 138 Election statistics, 96, 98, 102, 103,
104, 105, 111, 124, 127, 131, 157, 174, 179, 194, 260, 261, 319, 395,
447
Electric cars, 212, 300 Elevation above sea level, 276 Ellis Island committee, 360 Ellsworth, Me., 396 Ellsworth post office, 215 Elnathan Jones community field, 355
Elzabeth (see Assabet) Embalming, 210 Emerson Hospital, 359, 391 Enlistments following Concord Fight, 85 Enlistment for Canadian campaign, 89 Enterprise company (Hudson) 218 Epitaphs, 286
Epulets, 216
Essex Street Church, 409
Evangelical Congregation Church, 411 Evangelical Society, 138, 407, 410
Exchange Hall, 152, 414
Fair grounds, 345
Fulling mills, 52
Fur traders, 10
Gallup's Island, 419
Galveston, Tex., 423
Garbage removal, 357
Garden Club, 336
Gardner, 137
Garrison house, 10, 31, 343
Gavel, historical, 250
Fence around monument, 166
Ferrule factory, 236
Filenes (Boston) 337
Finances of 1743, 43
Finney & Hoit, 152
Fire, of 1862, 191,; West Acton, 201
Geological survey, 6
George Robert White Fund (Boston), 325
Gifts to Memorial Library, 248, 249 Gerrymander, 127
Gettysburg battle engraving, 248
Goblets, 249
Gold (buried), 123
Goodnow fund, 411
Goward playground. 318
Grade crossings, 175, 194, 283, 301
Grading common, 118
Grafton, (Mass.) 14; (Vt.), 391
Grand Army of the Republic, 210
Grand Army Hall, 177, 226, 253, 414
Grand Army Post, 184, 268
Grange, 251, 301, 302, 317, 327
Graninrowman, 40
Granite, 259 Graniteville, 259
Grassy Pond, 276, 278
Gray Herbarium, 325
Great blow (Tornado) of 1815, 132
Football, 336
Foot-of-the-Rocks, 84
Forester, 327
Forest Hills cemetery, 325
Forge, 9
Fornication, 49, 112
Fort, Delaware, 420; Devens, 354; Independence, 396; Jackson, 418; Mclellan, 420; Nansemond, 420;
Stevens, 420; St. Philip, 418, 422, 423; Sumter, 182;
Fort Pond brook, 44, 276, 300, 314, 323 Fort Wayne, Ind., 224 Fort Yuma, Cal., 423 Fortress Monroe, 420 Framingham, 82, 91, 160, 397
Framingham & Lowell R.R., 215, 223
Framingham News, 310
Framingham Normal School, 251. 309
Franklin, La., 423
Franklin Savings Bank, 361
French and Indian War, 53
Freeholders, list of, 16
Free Soil Party, 157, 172
Freezing of corpses, 210
Friends, Society of, 417
Fugitive slave law, 172, 176
Fugitive slaves, 173
Falkland Islands, 53
Faneuil Hall, 56, 320
Farmers' Club, 226 Farms (Blood) 7
Fast Day, 34
Faulkner house, 10, 343
Faulkner mills, 30, 71, 181, 301
Federalist Party, 111
General Court, 3, 5, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 23, 32, 51, 55, 59, 66, 89, 101, 102, 107, 130, 367
Geographical center of town, 115
Geology, 168
Fire department, 316, 326, 335; house (Centre) 326, 365; protection, 146, 191, 233, 261, 262, 276, 299, 316, 326, 335; trucks, 326
First council of Revolutionary War, 78
First National Bank of Ayer, 145
First Parish, 129, 146, 155, 158, 177 Fiscal year, change of, 316
Fishing, 223
Fisher's Hill, Va., 419
Fiske Hill, 83
Fiske House, 83
Fitchburg, 137, 147, 148, 316
Fitchburg R.R., 146, 175, 194, 223, 269, 283
Flagg Hill, 101, 443
Flagg meadow, 367
Flags for schools, 258
Flanagan's crossing, 149
Fletcher Corner, 225
Florida, 53, 322
Florida Midland R.R., 145
Flourescent lighting in schools, 356
Great Brook, 30, 44
Great Falls, 30
Great Hill, 275
Great Road, 36, 94, 132, 313
Greenhouses, 321
Greenough Brothers Incorporated, 314
Greenough Construction Co., 314
Greenville, N.H., 149
Grist mill, 9, 30, 144, 202, 213 Grosse Ile, Mich., 337
448
Groton, 10, 15, 42, 49, 64, 68, 85, 137, 148, 164, 191, 204 Groton Academy, 246 Groton Artillery, 183 Groton Junction, 149 Guide posts, 146 Gunsmiths, 72
Gymnasium (high school), 362 Hair (James Hayward), 248 Hall's Band (Boston), 188 Hall's mill, 200
Halloween, 292 Hapgood's crossing, 175
Harris, Prescott & Sullivan, 259 Harvard, 101, 137, 149, 202, 270, 295, 311, 320, 351
Harvard Business School, 337
Harvard College, 38, 107, 108, 221, 396
Harvard Medical College, 390 Harvard Square, 70
Harvard turnpike, 146
Haverhill, 389
Hasnemesuchoth (Grafton), 14 Hay, 86
Hayward Guards, 189 Hearse, 197
Heathen Meadow, 42, 367
Hemp and Flax surveyors, 35
Highway Department, 318
Highways, 31, 36, 44, 115, 146, 291 History of Middlesex County, 254 Hogreeve, 35, 48 Holton barber shop, 323
Holy Family (painting), 248
Hoops (hoop poles), 321 Hoover administration, 338 Hopkinton, 117, 360
Horse Power Village, 147, 148 Horse racing, 355
Horserake, 311
Horsesheds, 55, 100
Horsestable, 54
Hosmer Woodlawn Cemetery Fund, 336
House Committee on Education, 246 Hovey Co. C.F., 294 Hovey Co., H.A., 145 Howe Lumber Co., 361
Howe's Tavern Wayside Inn), 121 Hubbardston, 137 Hudson, 300, 341 Hudson Co., J.L., (Detroit), 337 Humbling the Tories, 66 Hurricane of 1938, 355 Hydrants, 313 Hymns, 105, 106 Illinois, 178
Improvement Society, 254, 255, 291 Indenture, 111 Independence from Britain, vote on, 87 Indiana, 178, 195 Indians, 3, 9, 10, 11-15, 60, 212, 311
Industry (statue), 249 Inflation, 93, 94, 95 Insulated wire, 365 Intemperance, 139, 175 Iowa, 176
Iron ore, 9 Iron works, 9, 21, 370 Isabaeth River (see Assabet) Issac Davis death stone, 284 Issac Davis homesite memorial, 268 Issac Davis Post, G.A.R., 210, 245, 247,341 Jamaica Plain, 68
James Tuttle's store, 153
Jeffersonian Party, 111
Jock Wheeler's corner, 314
John Fletcher & Sons, 191
Johnny Bluine, 201
Joiner's Ford battle of, 432
Jones Tavern, 147, 344
Kansas, 176
Kelley's Corner, 278, 328, 350
Kentucky, 145, 179, 193, 309
Kinsley marker, 356
Kerosene lamp, first, 311
Laboratory Instruments, 364
Lamplighters, 290 Lamson's Point, 313
Lancaster, 10, 42, 117, 137, 149, 270, 351 Lancaster & Sterling R.R., 150
Landgrant, 2
Laundry, 273
Lawn tennis, 192
Lawrence Academy, 271, 311, 389
Lawrence Light Infantry, 183
Laws Brook, 44
Lazy Susan, 192
Lechmere Point, 69
Leominster, 137
Leveret Lines, 42
Lexington, 70, 83, 107, 142, 167, 215, 220, 300, 387
Lexington Park, 300
Libby Prison, 247, 421, 422
Liberty Party, 157
Liberty Guards, 189
Library, Citizens', 225, 226, 251,; Memorial, 112, 121, 193, 225, 226, 242-249, 271, 277, 293, 323, 337, 358,
360; Social, 113
Lightning, 165
Lincoln, 70, 78, 81, 86, 160, 217, 270, 387
Liquor consumption, 118
Liquor control, 175
Liquor license vote, 288
Littlefield's Hall, 253, 413
Littlefield's store, 201, 253
Littleton, 5, 24, 53, 86, 89, 101, 131, 147, 153, 154, 164, 165, 182, 217, 250, 270, 280, 300, 320, 334, 362, 392, 395 Logging, 200 Loomis Agricultural College, 314 Lottery houses, 107
Lottery offices, 108 Louisiana, 176
Lowell, 182, 184, 185, 224
Lowell, Acton & Maynard Street Railway, 300 Lowell Brass Band, 188
449
Lowell Brigade Band, 189 Lowell & Framingham R.R., 144, 213, 215 Lowell Normal School, 252
Ludlow Lawrence Home, battle of, 420, 432
Lumbering, 145, 200, 237
Lunenburg, 137
Lyceum, 178 Lynnfield, 324
Magog (see Nagog)
Mail Coach Grille, 284
Mail wagon, 284
Maine, 13, 145, 176
Maine Central R.R., 216
Malden, 10, 243, 246, 294
Males, classification of, 96
Manchester, N.H., 163
Manure, 115, 289
Marlborough, 10, 13, 14, 42 Map of Acton, 105
Map of Massachusetts, 114
Marathon (B.A.A.), 360
Marden & Rowell, 218
Marlboro Branch, 150, 301
Marlboro, N.H., 390
Marquis of Rockingham, 82
Marshfield, 88
Mashpee, 60
Massachusetts, 113, 114, 127, 130, 132, 150, 176, 180, 312
Massachusets, General Hospital, 324, 390; Home Mission Society, 416; Institute of Technology, 314;
Legislature, 221; Powder Mills, 140; Prison commissioners, 246; school fund, 307
6th Massachusetts Volunteers, 268, 269, 419-20
26th Massachusetts Volunteers, 228, 231, 418-21
Maynard, 2, 152, 181, 204, 212, 250, 270, 312, 316, 336, 392
Maynard Building Supply Co., 140
Mechanics' Phalanx (of Lowell), 183 Medford, 10, 70, 164
Medway, 396
Meditation (marble bust), 248
Meeting house, first, 25, 30, 32, 34, 35, 36, 45, 55, 56, 100, 120; second, 114, 115, 118, 119, 120, 130, 142, 154, 174, 176, 177
Memorial chapel (Woodlawn), 348
Memorial Day, 210, 250
Memorial Library (see library)
Memphremagog (lake), 223
Mendon, 10
Menotomy, (Arlington), 84
A. Merriam Co., 237
Merriam's Corner, 77, 82
Metalsmiths, 52
Methodists, 146, 158
Mexican War, 157, 162, 290
Michigan, 157, 176 Middlesex County, 10, 68, 84, 121, 126, 137, 172, 320
Middlesex Institution for Savings, 361 Middlesex Medical School, 391 Middleton, 396
Milbury, 136
Milford, 408 Military markers (cemeteries), 290
Militia, 68, 111, 127, 128, 180, 182, 216
Milk, 153
Mill Corner, 147
Milliken's Bend, battle of, 422
Minister's pew, 100
Minute men, 67, 68, 105, 174, 220, 333, 344
Minute man statue, 221, 360
Mississippi River, 53
Missouri, 145
Missouri Compromise, 176
Monument (Davis), 138, 160-70, 207, 283, 360, 388
Monument House, 124, 155, 192, 261, 268, 356
Monument Shoppe, 193
Moore & Cram Webbing Co., 293
Morganza, La., 418
Morgan horses, 391
Morocco shop, 293
Mowing machine (first), 311
Mt. Hope Cemetery (see cemeteries)
Music in schools, 282
Music in second meeting house, 119
Musketaquid, 2
Muster day, 128
Nagog, 36, 214, 223, 224, 274, 276, 279, 313, 367, 442
Nagog Brook, 313, 314
Nagog dam, 223, 224, 313, 314
Nagog Hill, 274, 276
Nashoba Brook, 8, 36, 75, 214, 367
Nashoba Plantation (Mashoba), 3, 6, 13, 14, 20, 42, 311, 334, 441, 442
Nashua, Acton & Boston R. R., 215
Nashua, 149, 322
Natick, 11, 14
Natchez, 118
National Band of Worcester, 189
National Constitutional Union, 179
National Greys (of Lowell), 183
National Retail Dry Goods Association, 338
Navy Yard, 302
Nebraska Territory, 176, 223
Necessities of Life, 50, 94, 95
Needham, 131, 396
Negroes, 46, 385
Nehemiah Hill, 29, 132, 276, 355
New county, formation of, 137
New England Brick Co., 361
New England College Admissions Board, 357
New England Geneological Society, 312
New England Psalm Singer, 106
New England Road Builders Associa- tion 314 New England Vise Co., 199, 200 New Hampshire, 145
450
13th New Hampshire Volunteers, 389 New Haven R.R., 215 New Iberia, La., 418 New Jersey, 387 New Orleans, 118, 187, 418, 422, 423 Newport, Vt., 223
Newspaper, 217 Newton, 131 Newton cemetery, 311 Newton, Sir Issac (statue), 249
New York Mutuals (Baseball), 224 Niles Register, 142
Nineteenth ammendment, 320
Nipmuck country, 10
Nonantum (Natick), 14 Norfolk & Petersburg R.R., 420
Norsemen, 13
North Acton schoolhouse, 216, 281, 285 North Bridge, 51, 75, 77, 81, 159, 221, 247, 266, 360, 398, 421 North Chelmsford, 149
North Middlesex Savings Bank, 145
Northwood, N.H., 389
Norumbega, 13
Nova Scotia, 53, 314, 397 Norway, 320, 360
Odd Fellows, Independent Order of, 252
Ogkoontiquonkames (Marlboro), 14 Ohio, 145
Ohio (battleship), 423
Okommokamesit Fire Company, 167
Old Home Week, 300
Old parsonage (Bullard place), 91, 98, 123
Olympic marathon team, 360
Old Colony R.R., 215
Oorfa (Turkey), 309, 310
Opelousas, La., 418
Order of United Americans, 167
Organ pumpers, 282
Overall shop, 202 Overseers of the Poor, 146 Oxen, 241, 263
Pails, 200
Painting of the Davis Minute Men, 74, 249, 264
Paintings by Arthur F. Davis, 264, 294 Parent Teachers Association, 355 Pari-mutuel betting, 355 Edwin C. Parker Co., 202
Parliament, resolutions concerning, 65 Parsonage (the old) , 91, 98, 123
Patent medicines, 218
Paul Revere bell ringers, 361 Peace Jubilee of 1869, 270
Peace tree, 284 Pembroke, N.H., 389
Pencil factory, 155, 249, 363 People's Party, 260
Pepperell, 137, 246, 270
Pepperell Academy, 246
Pepperell Paper Co., 320
Perambulating bounds, 2, 20, 41, 42, 49, 442 Perpetual care (cemeteries), 290
Pest house, 104 Peterborough & Shirley R.R., 149 Petersburg, Va., 210 Petition for seperate town, 94 Philadelphia, 224, 423 Phillips Exeter Academy, 361 Phillipston, 137 Physicians, 98, 388
Piano, first in town, 119
Piano stool factory, 35, 236
Pirate, 123
Pistols, 188 Pittsfield, Mass., 317, 388; N.H., 389
Plainfield, N.J., 392
Plastics, 365
Platter, 299 Playground (Goward), 318
Plow of Issac Davis, 360
Plymouth Colony, 10
Police, 336
Police cruiser, 356
Pompasetticut (Stow), 42
Poor, support of, 93, 102, 103, 107, 111, 137
Poor farm purchase committee, 137, 142, 143, 289, 316
Portsmouth, R.I., 390
Portsmouth Grove, R.I., 422
Post offices, 137, 156, 174, 192, 215, 388
Post Office Department, 201
Potsdam, N.Y., 237
Potter Drug & Chemical Co., 324
Pound, 54
Powder horn of James Hayward, 83, 142, 249
Powder mills, 140
Powers land, 20, 442
Praying Indians, 9, 13
Preaching, 36
Prescott Guards (Pepperell), 167
President of the college (Harvard), 87
Presidents of U.S. visiting Acton, 221
Princeton, 137
Prison Commissioners of Massachu- setts, 246
Print works, 155
Printing reports of town officers, 190
Prisoners, 215
Procter farm, 15
Progressive Party, 395
Prohibition Party, 260
Proprietors of the New Grant, 369
Public health nurse, 327
Public safety, committee on, 357
Pumice, 263
Punkatasset Hill, 77
Puritans, 130, 172, 217
Putney, Ga., 362
Quabaug (Brookfield), 11
Quakers, 417
Quebec, 267
Quarried stone, 321
Quarrying, 146, 259
Quartermaster General, 181
Quimby Square, 319
Quincy Democrat, 163
451
R. & H., Company, 140 Railroad survey, 123 Railway fatalities, 175 Rationing Board, 357 Reading ,town of, 10, 82 Recruiting, 197 Red Robin Inn, 144 Red River, 418 Reformatory, 144, 212, 215, 249, 354 Regional School District Planning Board, 351
Religious agitation, 129
Representatives in General Court, 55
Representatives in Congress, 103
Republican Party, 157, 178
Resaca, Ga, 422
Resin, 364
Resolutions of April 27, 1861, 187 Resolution on state of the colonies, 61
Revolvers, 249
Rex Corporation, 364 Rhode Island, 93, 387
Rifled muskets, 183
Rifles (Confederate), 249
Robinson's Hall, 414
Roads, breaking out, 227
Rockbottom, 195
Rockford, Ill., 224
Rocky Guzzle, 44, 121, 122, 123, 213, 286
Romney (ship), 55
Roosevelt school (Maynard), 353
Round Meadow, 367
Roxbury, 68, 70, 294
Royal Arcanum, 235
Royal Normal College for the Blind, 310
Royalston, 137
Rug manufacturing, 212
Rule of three, 58
Rum, 151
Rural Free Delivery, 248
Russia, 140, 182
Safe (for town records, 178
Sailors, 119, 122
Salem, 84
Salem Cadet Band, 268
Sash and blind factory, 155
Savannah, Ga., 419
Saw mills, 52, 150, 214
Saxonville, 212
Schools (elementary) appropriation,
43, 87, 93, 103, 105, 142, 171, 190. 194, 198; arithmetic in colonial era, 58; barges, 277, 325; census for 1826, 216, 278; committee, 43, 104, 125, 128, 142, 178, 198, 222, 303-306, 307, 327; consolidation of, 253, 278, 350; discipline, 205, 251; districts, 54, 103, 104, 105, 136, 254; East Acton school closed, 277; flags, 258; grammar school, 59, 103, 278, 281, 284; intermediate, 254, 278, 280; moving school, 41, 43; ninth grade added, 281; ninth grade discon- tinued, 307; private schools, 138,
151;report cards, 198; roll of honor, 199; saluting the flag, 258; special building committee, 351; state school building assistance commis- sion, 351; superintendant, 190, 198, 256, 279, 334, 336; teachers, 47, 190, 205, 222, 281; appendix V; text books, 199; transportation, 277, 325; women's school, 57, 86, 87, 93, 105. Schools (high), 175, 178, 216, 234, 240, 241, 256, 270, 277, 284, 302, 328, 334-337; agricultural club, 357; band, 357; baseball, 299; basketball, 299; bronze lanterns, 331; Carlos Clark silver shield, 337; first curric- ulum, 234; first graduation, 237; first list of students, 235; first prin- cipal, 235; first valedictory address, 239; first four year curriculum, 256; first graduates of four year course, 271; first graduates at present school, 335; epochs, 306; forty week year, 280; glee club, 357; gymnasium ,362; impasse of 1907, 303-306; li- brary, 357; memorial tablets, 329; orchestra, 357; piano, 258; publica- tions (first), 258, 282, 285; scholars sent to Concord, 303; teachers, 216, 235, 241, 256, 303, 328, 334; trans- portation, 258, 305; Washington tours, 362.
Schoolhouses adjustment with
Carlisle, 97; building of, 59, 136, 137, 190, 205, 211, 216; moving of, 63; necessary houses, 115; North Acton, 216; painting of, 115.
Schubert Choral Union, 269, 270
Sculpture, 221, 248, 249
Seaboard & Roanoke R.R., 420
Sealer of Weights and Measures, 41
Seating the meeting house, 46, 53
Second Division, 35
Secession of West Acton, 203
Selectmen, first board, 31
Selectmen, first printed reports, 146
Selectmen's office, 177
Seminole (battleship), 423
Seminole War, 290
Separation of church and state, 130 Shad, 3 Shawsheen, 4
Sheep, 48, 128
Shenandoah River, 419
Sheply and Davis, 157
Sherburne, 10
Ship Island, La., 418
Shirley, 137, 395
Shirley Village, 147
Shirts, 96
Shoe buckles of Issac Davis, 248 Shoes, 96
Shoe shop, 132, 177
Shewsbury, 236
Sidewalks, Centre, 335
Sidney Edwards Square, 334 Signal corps, 365
452
Simmons College, 338 Singing school, 124 Sir Steak Machinery Co., 347, 364 Sixth Massachusetts regiment, 174, 183, 184, 185 Skeletons discovery of, 123, 212 Slates, 58 Slavery, 39, 178 Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, 390 Slickensides, 260 Small pox, 38, 104, 216, 289 Smith & Lovett (Boston), 163 Smokeless powder, 140, 364
Snowplow, 227
Snow removal, 255 Socialist Party, 395
Society of Friends, 417
Soldier substitutes, 89
Soldiers, reimbursement of, 128, 190 Soldering fluxes, 364
Solvent rubber solutions, 364
Somerville, 84, 349 Sons of Liberty, 69
South Acton in 1840, 150
South Acton; Christian Church, 145;
Congregational Church, 266, 349,
416; Universalist Church, 415
South Bridge, 77 (Concord)
South Groton, 149
South Carolina, 145
South Windham, Me., 391
Spanish War, Memorial stone, 280; resolution, 280 Spies (British), 67, 77
Springfield, Vt., 396
Stanley steamer, 285, 391
St. Albans Brass Band, 221
St. Elizabeth's Church, 315, 417
St. Louis, 150
St. Vincent's Hospital, 390
Stable ground, 120
State Board of Education, 250, 307
State Constitution, 89, 90, 96
State Election (first) , 96
State government, 102
State grange, 318 State prison, 213
State of rights of the colonists, 61 Steam boiler (Tenney), 346 Steam roller, 291
Stepping stone of first meeting house 35 Stockings, 96
Stone crusher, 291
Stone drag, 241
Stone guide posts, 146
Stoneham Light Infantry, 183
Stony Brook R.R., 149
Storage battery appurtenances, 364 Stoughton, 106
Stow, 15, 20, 24, 42, 47, 64, 85, 86, 101, 110, 131, 153, 154, 164, 165, 181, 182, 204, 212, 217, 250, 270, 311, 320, 334, 351 Stow swamp, 443 Strawberry Hill, 3, 59, 276
Street lighting, 255, 259, 290, 312 Streets, naming of, 323 Sturbridge, 256, 279 Substitutes, hiring of, 93 Sudbury, 2, 5, 10, 24, 34, 39, 68, 82, 121, 131, 164, 165, 204, 212, 217, 218, 250, 320 Sudbury Rifles, 167
Sudbury, Vt., 216
Suffolk, Va., 249, 420, 422, 432
Sunday schools, 223
Sunday schools quarterlies, 246
Superhighway, 204
Support of soldier families, 92, 94
Surveyor of hemp and flax, 35
Swansea, 10
Sweden, 360
Swine, 48, 114, 128, 181
Swords, 216, 247, 248, 249
Tadmuck, 21, 442
Tankards, 249
Taverns, 40, 45, 120, 124, 144, 147, 155, 157
Taylor Brothers, 200
Tax collector by vendue, 114
Tax refund from state, 142
Teachers' Institute, 181, 250
Technical Products Co., 140
Technology Instrument Corporation, 75, 115, 364
Telephone exchange, 146, 202
Tell Tale Tomb, 74
Tennis court tape, 365
Temple, N .H., 392
Templeton, 137
Ticonderoga, 384, 385
Tin peddler, 273
Tolman & White, 218
Tomb, 171, 206, 241
Tornado; of 1815, 132; of 1938, 144
Town clerks (Tuttle dynasty), 271
Town farm, 106, 107, 115, 137, 142, 289, 316
Town hall, 142, 154, 155, 176, 177, 181, 191; clock, 194; cellar, 281; register broker, 232
Town; pump, 279; election by
precincts, 327; meeting changed to evening, 327; meeting dinner, 327;
officers for 1935; 339; reports, 218;
change of fiscal year, 316; first printing of valuation, 171; first warrant, 31
Townsend, 137
Tramps, 217, 289
Train service in 1876, 223
Trees on common, 143, 249
Tree plantations, 327
Tree warden, 289
Trinity College, 337
Trip hammer, 9
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