Welcome to the online archives of the Maynard Historical Society in Maynard, Massachusetts. Our online archive provides access to a significant portion of the documents, photographs, artifacts and memorabilia that the Society has in storage. Start your journey with the search bar in the upper right. You can read the "About" page for additional information on this project or the "Tips" page for ways to find and discover historical information.
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Postcards

The MHS Postcard Collection is one of the best, and possibly most entertaining, way of looking into the history of the Town. Each postcard is a…
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Maynard High School Football Program - November 2, 1963

Score: Maynard High School 7 vs Marlboro High School 8
Saturday, November 2, 1963, at Alumni Field
Maynard’s Head Coach: Wilfred DeRosa…
Maynard High School Football Program - October 26, 1963

Score: Maynard High School 0 vs Hudson High School 0
Saturday, October 26, 1963, at Alumni Field
Maynard’s Head Coach: Wilfred DeRosa
Backfield…
Frank A. Davidson Apothecary Promotional Card
Maynard, Mass.

An advertising card glued to paper. The backside has another card of a Boston 99 Cent Store
Police Desk Ornament - 2009
Maynard Police Headquarters

Paper weight of the Police Headquarters logo embedded in plastic.
Genealogy of George Puffer 1639 - 1915

The Puffer Family (of Puffer Road and Puffer Pond) who had a farm in Sudbury, then Maynard, now in the Assabet National Wildlife Sanctuary,…
Maynard High School Football Program - October 19, 1963

Score: Maynard High School 28 vs Framingham North High School 0
Saturday, October 19, 1963, at Alumni Field
Maynard’s Head Coach: Wilfred DeRosa…
Key Ring - 1988
Maynard High School Reunion

A keychain mememto souvenir given out at the 50th Reunion of the Class of 1938.
Nason Street Diner / Maynard Diner

The Nason Street Diner (aka Maynard Diner, aka White's Diner, aka Hoffman Diner) was a classic American Diner located at 48 Nason Street from, at…
Chronology of early Automobiles in Maynard

This is a summary account of how automobiles were introduced in Maynard spanning 1899 to early 1910s
Maynard High School Football Program - October 12, 1963

Score: Maynard High School 3 vs Notre Dame High School 0
Saturday, October 12, 1963, at Notre Dame Crusaders Field, Fitchburg
Maynard’s Head…
Maynard High School Football Program - October 5, 1963

Score: Maynard High School 28 vs Shrewsbury High School 14
Saturday, October 5, 1963, at Shrewsbury Junior-Senior High School Athletic…
Maynard High School Football Program - September 28, 1963

Score: Maynard High School 14 vs Cambridge Latin High School 0
Saturday, September 28, 1963, at Alumni Field
Maynard’s Head Coach: Wilfred DeRosa…
Maynard High School Football Program - November 28, 1963

Score: Maynard High School 28 vs Clinton High School 6
Thursday, November 28, 1963, Thanksgiving Day, at Fuller Field Clinton
Maynard’s Head…
Report of the Committee on Lighting -1902
Town of Maynard

The Committee's report and recommendations to the Town voters relative to an Agreement with the American Woolen Company to supply street lighting for…
Amendments To By-laws of the Town of Maynard -1915

Many of the Amendments involved the Annual Town Meeting procedures however one Amendment did establish a Finance Committee, its structure and…
Town of Maynard Scammed - 1896
The Farmers' Loan and Trust Company Letter

The letter from W. D. Searls, Vice President of the Bank, to W. H. Gutteridge, Maynard's Treasurer, indicates the Town was deceived and defrauded…