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A chronology of the Glenwood Cemetery from its coincident start with the town in 1871 through 1950.

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…

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…

Alice Louise Fearns Mullin:

Alice Lousie Fearns was born on September 27, 1912, in the home in which she grew up, at 7 Haynes Street, Maynard, MA. She was the daughter of Bertha Amelda Wall, a high school mathematics teacher from Marlboro;…

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

After the closure of the Concord, Maynard, and Hudson Street Railway a bus line was started by John Lovell in 1923 and it continued into the 1950s.This monograph details the history of John Lovell and the Lovell Bus Lines in Maynard.

How the Town of Maynard was affected by the extreme weather in winter 1920.

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…

A historical account of the Great Depression in Maynard written at the time of the 100th anniversary