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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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…

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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…

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