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Annual Meeting and Election of Officers
Annual Meeting and Election of Officers
On Sunday October 25 at 2:00 p.m. the Society will be holding its Annual Meeting and Election of Officers and Directors at the Boxborough Museum 575 Middle Road. We anticipate this will be a brief meeting and all members are welcome. We will also be giving away, to 3 lucky attendees, “Historical Society” Fifer’s Day 2026 T-shirts. Your participation would be appreciated and welcomed. In order to encourage membership, the Society is also announcing that all membership dues have graciously been waived for the next year.
Fact and Folklore on America’s 250th: Ted Reinstein November 15
Fact and Folklore on America’s 250th: Ted Reinstein November 15
Once again, the Boxborough Historical Society is proud to present Ted Reinstein speaking this year on “Greetings from Breed’s Hill: Fact & Folklore on America’s 250th”. The presentation will take place in the Grange Room of the Boxborough Town Hall (29 Middle Road) on Sunday November 15 starting at 2:00 PM.
Admission is free, all are welcome, and registration is not required.
Ted has been a reporter for the WCVB TV (Channel 5) Chronicle team for over 30 years during which he has garnered many national awards including an Emmy in 2018. From every corner of New England, he’s found the offbeat, the unique, the moving, and the just plain memorable, all while telling the enduringly colorful stories of the region’s people and places. “Fun & Folklore” is a fast-paced, fun, and informative look at some of the unique stories he has done and researched relative to the Revolutionary War period, as well as some later history.
Interested in learning about the formation of the Boxborough Minutemen and the original Minutemen they represent? Then click on our newest article here.
New articles!
New articles!
Two new articles have been added to the Historic Articles page. They both concern the Swanson Road fire. Click here to read them.
The Freedom’s Way National Heritage Area is a consortium of 45 cities and towns, including Boxborough, that were involved in the events of 1775. It was designated as a National Heritage Area by Congress in 2009. It is managed by the Freedom’s Way Heritage Association (FWHA), which is a non-profit located in Devens that started in 1994 to manage the area and its partnership with the US Park Service. The FWHA website has an extensive listing of resources and programs in these communities. Please visit at https://freedomsway.org.
Books on Boxborough History
Books on Boxborough History
During the 241 years of Boxborough’s existence, there have been two books written about the Town’s history.
Late in the nineteenth century, a comprehensive history of Middlesex County was published by Samual Adams Drake, titled “History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts containing carefully prepared histories of every city and town in the county.” Encouraged by this work and by her friends, Lucie Caroline Hager felt “that a history of Boxborough printed in a small volume separately…would be favorably received” and set to work to write one.
Lucie was born in Littleton and moved to Boxborough when she married in 1882. She was a school teacher, bookkeeper, and a writer of prose and poetry. “Boxborough: A New England Town and its People,” the product of her efforts, was published in 1891.
As indicated by its title, the book is divided into two sections. The first half tells the history of the town for its roughly first 100 years. The second half presents biographical sketches of the prominent families who lived in town during that period. A biography of Lucie and a selection of her poems are included in the section on the Hager family.
Boxborough celebrated its Bicentennial in 1983. As part of that commemoration, four residents, Janet Calhoun, Susan DeStefano, Katherine Talmadge, and Elizabeth West, spent 18 months working with others to create “Boxborough: A Portrait of a Town: 1783-1983”.
As its introduction states, “Portrait” is a combination of thousands of pages of written records with hundreds of hours of oral interviews documenting the memories of people living in town. This sprightly written, copiously illustrated volume is organized by topic rather than chronology, e.g., “Government,” “Schools,” “Library.” It brings to life Boxborough’s history as a small farming town up until the 1960’s, and documents the changes in Boxborough as it grew rapidly through the 1970’s and early 1980s.
There are multiple copies of each book at Boxborough’s Sargent Memorial Library. Copies can also be purchased at the Boxborough Museum or by emailing the Boxborough Historical Society at BoxboroughHistoricalSociety@gmail.com.
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