Calling all contractors and tradespersons with preservation experience! Townsend Historical Society Invitation for Quotes Spaulding Cooperage Restoration Project March 1, 2022 The Townsend Historical Society is seeking bids from qualified contractors and tradespersons with historic preservation experience to undertake restoration work on the Spaulding Cooperage, located at 1 South Street, in Townsend, Massachusetts. The building…
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Historical Cemetery Guided Tour – October 23rd, 2:00 at Hillside Cemetery in Townsend!
One of the Townsend Historical Society’s most popular events is just a couple of weekends away! Historian Lee McTighe’s Cemetery Tours have become a much-anticipated fall tradition, and we can’t wait for this year’s exploration of the “New Burying Ground” section of Hillside Cemetery! Join Lee on Saturday, October 23rd at 2:00 P.M. as we visit…
Historian Lee McTighe’s Virtual Tour of the Old Burying Ground, October 24th!
Last October, for local historian Lee McTighe’s tour of Riverside Cemetery, we welcomed dozens of guests (as well as dozens of cider doughnuts!) We’re fortunate to be working with Lee once again this fall for a brand new historical tour of Townsend’s Old Burying Ground! On October 24th at 2:00 P.M., we’re all invited to…
Atlatls, Ancient Hunting Tools of the Nashoba Valley
Hold onto your atlatls because today we’re venturing back to see what the Nashoba Valley was like 13,000 years ago! The two-mile-high ice sheets from the last ice age have just receded, and the land is a wild tundra filled with big game like moose, caribou, and… WOOLLY MAMMOTHS! If you’ve had a chance to…
Atlatls, Ancient Hunting Tools of the Nashoba Valley
As promised, we’re venturing back in time to the very earliest human habitation of the Nashoba Valley to take a look at the technology of the paleoindians 13,000 years ago! The land which would become Massachusetts looked much different at that time. Most noticeably, there were many fewer Dunkin’ Donuts compared to these days. Furthermore,…
Memorial Day, 2020
In honor of Memorial Day yesterday we’d like to share a photograph from a Memorial Day nearly a century ago, when the Military Band gathered on May 30th, 1927 in a West Townsend cemetery to remember those who had fallen in service of our country. We’re thinking this must be Riverside Cemetery where our friend…