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Centennial Monograph: Maynard Grange No. 340
A history of the Maynard Grange, an organization for famers in a town filled with mill workers.
Centennial Monograph: Maynard High School Alumni
The early years of Maynard High School had very small graduating classes and from 1899 to 1930 they formed an Alumni Association which held social reunions.
Centennial Monograph: Maynard Representatives in General Court
Many of the Maynard's early State Representatives were from Maynard. A list and backgrounds of those Representatives in the General Court.
Centennial Monograph: Maynard Rod and Gun Club
A history of one of the major clubs in Maynard whose origins stretch back to the turn of the 20th century.
Centennial Monograph: Middlesex Club
An account of a short-lived social club that formed in 1910 and was disbanded 8 years later because nearly all of the members were fighting in World War I.
Centennial Monograph: Minstrels
A remembrance of minstrel shows in Maynard by a well-known local minstrel.
Centennial Monograph: Mission Evangelical Congregational Church
A history of the origins of the Mission Evangelical Congregational Church (originally known as Finnish Congregational Church).
Centennial Monograph: Moving Pictures in Maynard
An account of how motion pictures (movies) came to Maynard: from the silent picture shows of the early 1900s to the arrival of talking motion pictures in 1913 to multiple theaters in Maynard during the 1920s.
Centennial Monograph: Musicians, Orchestras and Bands
A chronology of music makers in Maynard from the 1900s through the late 1940s. (At the time of its writing, the centennial authors planned to update it through the 1960s).
Centennial Monograph: Natural Gas Utility
A very brief summary of the natural gas utility in Maynard.
Centennial Monograph: Observation of the 50th Anniversary of the Incorporation of the Town of Maynard
For the occasion of the town's coming 100th anniversary in 1971, a look back on how the 50th anniversary was celebrated in 1921.
Centennial Monograph: Odd Fellows
A history of the International Order of Odd Fellows, a secret, fraternal society.
Centennial Monograph: Old Marlborough Road
The history of Old Marlborough Road, one of the oldest major roads in Maynard.
Centennial Monograph: Organized Labor in Maynard
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…
Centennial Monograph: Pleasure Boats on the Assabet River
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.
Centennial Monograph: Pool Rooms
A place for unsavory characters or a home for skilled players? The pool (billiards) rooms have a an interesting history that intersects with the multi-national growth of the town at the turn of the 20th century.
Centennial Monograph: Population Trends in Maynard
A review of the population of Maynard from 1871 through 1973.
Centennial Monograph: Rodettes
An auxiliary group supporting the Maynard Rod & Gun Club that operated from 1951 to around the end of the 1960s.
Centennial Monograph: Room and Boarding Houses, Hotels and Hostelries
A review of the many boarding houses and hotels that sprang up in Maynard starting in the 1860s and flourished until the 1930s.