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The American Woolen Company built the houses off Parker Street and owned the variety store.

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Bobbins were wound with the yarn that was used in weaving.

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The shuttle carried the weft back and forth through the warp to make the weave.

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A copy of the corporation petition to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts creating the Maynard Country Club, Inc. presented by George H. Gutteridge, Frank E. Sanderson, Wallace C. Priest, Howard A. Wilson, Oliver C. Trees, James J. Ledgard, Charles…

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A history of the Carney family who lived in Maynard in the first half of the 20th century.

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A record of customers, dates of services, fees, paid invoices in a bound ledger.
Shown is a page for Hans Erikson and an invoice for James Russo.

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A ledger recording the real estate transfer of the property owned by the woolen company to private owners. The record indicates the purchase price, parcel location, interest payments and the balanced owed as of March 1936. Example shown is the…

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Assabet is labeled on these maps of Stow and Sudbury in 1856. Assabet and the surrounding area is to become the Town of Maynard in 1871.

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The book came from the former James Bent house on 95 Summer St.

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Tony Collins ( right?), Maynard's first full time fireman, is riding the wagon with an unknown individual. The man on the left is operating the valve to get water from the elevated stand. Water was sprayed on the roads to suppress dust.

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This is the only photo taken by Charles Otis Hodgman in the collection.

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This is a scanned and searchable copy of the 1917 Annual Town Report.

(Note: The scanning process lost the warrant at the end of the report. We will attempt to fill in the missing pages at a future date.)

mhs-2020.175.pdf
This is a scanned and searchable copy of the 1920 Annual Town Report.

(Please note that several pages were damaged or lost during the scanning process. We will eventually fill in the lost information.)

mhs-2020.174.pdf
This is a scanned and searchable copy of the 1919 Annual Town Report.

Searching for "influenza" can provide some background on the impact of the 1918 "Spanish Flu" pandemic and the recovery following its influence. (See the 1918 copy for…

mhs-2020.173.pdf
This is a scanned and searchable copy of the 1918 Annual Town Report.

Searching for "influenza" can provide some background on the impact of the 1918 "Spanish Flu" pandemic.