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  • Collection: Monographs

mhs-2019.258.pdf
A short account of what was, for a time, the second largest business in a "company town".

mhs-2019.257.pdf
Shortly after immigrating into Maynard the Italian community created a number of short and long-lived institutions.

mhs-2019.256.pdf
The automobile came into use shortly after the incorporation of Maynard. A short account of its introduction and growth of the automobile in town life.

mhs-2019.255.pdf
With a textile mill as the center of employment (and economic power) for the first 75 years of Maynard's existence, it is not surprising that labor unions were deeply threaded through those years as well. A detailed chronology of labor unions in…

mhs-2019.254.pdf
The origins and evolution of St. Casimir's church, an offspring of St. Bridget's focused on the Polish community.

mhs-2019.253.pdf
A very brief summary of Russian immigrants in Maynard from circa 1900-1920.

mhs-2019.252.pdf
The Royal Arcanum was a fraternal organization whose core purpose, like a number of other similar societies, was to provide its members with safe insurance at minimum cost. It was founded in Boston in 1877 and still operates as of 2020 (but not in…

mhs-2019.251.pdf
The history of one of the larger temperance societies that operated for about 20 years from 1890 to the 1910s.

mhs-2019.250.pdf
Starting in 1906, for about 10 years, you could board a small steam-powered boat near Ben Smith Dam and for 25 cents take a leisurely weekend ride upstream to Lake Boon in Stow.

mhs-2019.249.pdf
A short summary of hotels that operated in Maynard. This research was incorporated into a monograph on hotels (see Relation below)

mhs-2019.248.pdf
A review of the associations and influence of the Jewish immigrant community on Maynard.

mhs-2019.247.pdf
Before the widespread availability of refrigeration one of the only way to keep things cool was with ice. Fresh water supplies, such as the Assabet River flowing through town, was a source of ice during the winter and a major industry grew up around…

mhs-2019.246.pdf
A local chapter of a national organization was started in town in 1898 founded on the tenets of "toleration in religion, obedience to law, and loyalty to government". The organization faded during the early 1940s, possibly because of World War II.

mhs-2019.245.pdf
An auxiliary group supporting the Maynard Rod & Gun Club that operated from 1951 to around the end of the 1960s.

mhs-2019.244.pdf
The history of the Society whose purpose was to unite all men and women who are practical Roman Catholic of Italian extraction, whether born in Italy or of Italian descent.

mhs-2019.243.pdf
The history of St. Bridget's Cemetery, which actually predates the parish in Maynard, from 1869 through the 1940s.

mhs-2019.242.pdf
A review of the many boarding houses and hotels that sprang up in Maynard starting in the 1860s and flourished until the 1930s.

mhs-2019.241.pdf
A short history of the origins of Crowe Park.

mhs-2019.240.pdf
A summary of a farm harvest tradition.

mhs-2019.239.pdf
A bit of cultural background of tramps and hobos and then an account of how tramps and hobos were cared for from 1871 through 1905. Tramps, generally speaking, "rode the rails" on the trains that passed through town (apparently Massachusetts was a…