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The house was an original Powder Mill residence. The barn was moved from the former Elmhurst Farm on Great Road. Neither structure is in existence now.

See 2012.337 for a history of the farmland on Parker Street.

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The Finnish Socialist held the New England Festival at the Waltham Street Hall and a field day at Fors farm in Stow. This is likely the parade on the way to Stow. The banner in center left of photo translate to "Worker's Party Finnish Socialist…

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The attached houses where built in 1901 to house mill workers. The location is corner of Main St. and Florida Rd. where Post Office is now located. The wall the woman is sitting on can be seen in front of Amory Maynard House, 145 Main St.

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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 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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The ducks where release onto the Assabet River from the Elks and floated to the Damon Mill Dam in West Concord. It was part of a fundraiser, first to arrive won.

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The album contain over 200 photos taken in the 1910's and 1920's at various locations in Maynard including on Brooks Street. Some of the people identified include: John Lawton, Bertha Lawton, Lessie Lawton McGarry, William McGarry, Vera Lawton, Jean…

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Ashtray handcrafted by Connie Ayotte Stigliani