History of the town of Acton, Part 46

Author: Phalen, Harold Romaine, 1889-
Publication date: 1954
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Middlesex Printing, Inc.
Number of Pages: 528


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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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