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

Donald Lent was born in Tiverton, Nova Scotia, Canada. His parents were Charles and Harriet Lent, Don being the youngest of seven children. The family immigrated to Maynard in 1899. They were farmers in Tiverton and were farmers in Maynard. The…

Three accounts of the beginning of St. Casimir's Church.

John Joseph Tobin was born in Maynard, April 17, 1925 to William Tobin and Mary Murphy Tobin. John attended Maynard public schools as a member of the Class of 1944 however he left school early to join the Navy in 1942 to fight in WWII. He…

He was universally known as "Dick".

Dick and his siblings (Virginia and Eleanor) born in North Acton of a Swedish father, Axel, and an American mother, Anna, spent their early years in Concord, moving to Maynard in the 1920's. He graduated…

A short historical summary of the church.

A Maynard Mystery

The Curious Story of The Dairy Cottage

and the Man Who Created It


In the Spring of 1938 a flurry of newspaper articles welcomed a new business to Maynard: The Dairy Cottage, located at 50 Acton Street. It advertised…

This is a collection of Town Report excerpts in support of the Hobos and Tramps monograph (see related resource).

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