VOLUME XLXIII NO. 3 APR-MAY-JUNE 2024
Upcoming Events
Stoughton Public Schools Multicultural Night Thursday, May 16, 6:00-7:30pm,
Gibbons Elementary School, 235 Morton Street. We will have a table at this
event with pictures and commentary focusing on Native-American and African-
American presence in Stoughton’s history.
Memorial Day, May 27, Open House at the Lucius Clapp Memorial, 6 Park St.
1:30-4:30 P.M. Elsewhere in Town, memorial squares will be dedicated to
Charlie Large at 1:00 P. M. and to Joe DeVito at 3:00 P. Many members of the
DeVito family will be attending. Light refreshments.
June 3, The Evelyn Callanan Memorial Sunflower and Plant Sale, 9:00 A. M. to
Noon at the Lucius Clapp Memorial, 6 Park St. (This date may vary based
on the progress of sunflower plant sprouting.)
June 15 9:30 A. M. (Rain date) June 22. Juneteenth Weekend two-mile walk in
to the Dunbar-Martrick-Campbell cellar holes and cemetery at the end of King
Street in Avon, just off of Page Street near the Stoughton-Avon line. Two African-American
Revolutionary War veteran, Samson Dunbar and Quork Martrick built a homestead here in
the “Three Swamps” area ca. 1790. Both are buried here in unmarked graves, and Quork
Martrick’s descendants resided here until ca. 1880.
Juneteenth – Wednesday, June 19, 10:00 A. M. to 2:00 P. M. “They Sacrificed
for Us: The Tuskegee Airmen” sponsored by the Old Colony YMCA and held
at Stoughton High School. We honored Stoughton Tuskegee Airman James Fischer at
the program several months ago. We will have a table at this event, which will have materials
on Fischer, Samuel Sharp and William Hill from the Civil War and new addition, Barker
Kennedy/Canady, a soldier in the Mass. 54th
, and most likely a former slave, who married
one of the Campbell women at the Three Swamp Homestead, and they were both listed as
living there in 1865. We do not know the fate of the couple after that date, as they have
disappeared by the 1870 census, but we are pursuing the matter.
July 4, Fourth of July Parade and open House at the Historical Society, 10:00 A.
M. 2:00 P.M. Joe Mokrisky has promised that the restored fire truck will be ready to roll
down the streets of Stoughton.
Over the next few months we will have our lady’s slipper walk on a weekend in
June, and three walks on Wednesday mornings with the library: the new trail at
Glen Echo, Lessa Playground to the Lemuel Bird barn cellar hole, and around Muddy
Pond. The library walks will be in July and August with specific dates still to be announced.
We need several members to volunteer to serve on our nominating committee,
which nominates the slate of officers and Board of Directors for the upcoming
year.
We also would welcome student volunteers, who could receive credit toward
their community service obligations at the high school. Please spread the word
to the appropriate parties.
President’s Report.
Since the publication of the last Newsletter, we lost Joe DeVito, our Past President
and one of the Society’s strongest assets for the last twenty years. One of my great privileges
of the last twenty years has been to get to spend a lot of time with Joe (and Jeanne) DeVito.
When I joined the Stoughton Historical Society in 2004, Joe was a pillar of strength, having
just guided our Society through a time of great crisis. He and Jeanne continued to support us with
their presence every week, as well as attending all the meetings and dinners, long enough for Joe and Jeanne
to earn the Jack Sidebottom Award for Distinguished service to the Society for at least ten years, AFTER he
was President. We greatly enjoyed our weekly lunches together at the Society during which the cast of
characters changed greatly over the years, but Joe and Jeanne were always there. Joe’s sharp and
knowledgeable mind remembered so many things about the history of Stoughton, including his own
contributions, about which he was generally modest. He enjoyed telling stories, including the one in which
Rocky Marciano flattened him in a baseball game many years ago, or how former Stoughton High Principal
Howard Randall encouraged him to go to college, or tales regarding the courthouse that used to be above
the family’s liquor store in the square. He fondly recalled taking part in the ritual of Stoughton High School
seniors to take a day off from school and go skinny-dipping up at Glenn Echo. These were just a few of the
stories that he told, or that we could tell about him. Who better to ask about almost any aspect of the last
ninety plus years of the Town’s history, than Joe DeVito? He soldiered on through so many health
problems in the last ten years, when he could not see, hear, or walk as he once did, but he kept on plugging.
We got to know each others’ families, and even more so as the childhood exploits of his children began
to turn up in our research, and as they returned to Stoughton more often, in order to help out their parents.
I greatly value the memory of meeting with Joe and his family at a picnic table at Glen Echo last summer.
He wanted me to know how much he appreciated the beautiful place that Glen Echo has become. We feel
his loss deeply, but were all blessed to have him with us for as long as we did. What a run, Joe! Rest in
peace, old friend.
The Stoughton Historical Society was mentioned as one of two organizations to which to send gifts in
Joe’s memory, and we have received more than $3,000 in donations! Joe also mentioned to Jeanne and his
children that there be an open house at the Society on the day that a Town Square was dedicated to him.
Joe, being Joe, suggested that we might be able to pick up a few new members that way. We will be
honoring that suggestion on Memorial Day.
The Town of Stoughton has recently created banners with the pictures of some of the Town’s veterans.
I was thrilled to see Joe’s banner on the pole in front of the Historical Society! I was less thrilled to see Joe,
who was a proud member of the U. S. Navy, designated as a member of the Marines, but I am sure that that
will be corrected in time. Joe’s daughter, Carole Green said that Joe would probably have appreciated the
humor of the situation.
We had a program in February at which we honored Joe’s memory, as well as
Howard Hansen’s A Stoughton Historical Sampler 1895-1995 – Expanded 2024
Edition, and also discussed how Howard, and all the rest of us began using
computers. Copies of this classic are still available: $15 for member’s first copy, all others
$20.
The most well-attended program at the Society in several years turned out to
be Dave Foley’s April 28th
presentation on the South School, Sumner Gardens,
and the history of the land in that area. We saw many new faces and learned a lot during the
program. Dave Foley attended the South School and lived in Sumner Gardens for a time in his youth. He
has many fond memories of both and he shared them with us.
In the early 1700’s the land in that section of Stoughton was dominated by the presence of many cedar
trees in Dorchester Swamp and the intriguing presence of “Iron Mine Meadow.” As has been mentioned
before, the road from the current Canton to Stoughton (Pleasant St.-Pearl St.-Sumner St.) was most likely
contstructed to transport the valuable cedar trees from Dorchester Swamp to Milton Landing, where they
could be floated down to Dorchester proper.
Dave has done extensive map and deed research and has created a template of the Map of the 25
Divisions, which is juxtaposed with our current street maps and can be found on stoughtonhistory.com along
with two 20 minute video segments of the program and the images which Dave projected onto the screen.
The last newsletter covered many of Judge Benjamin Lynde’s travels through Stoughton in the first
decades of the 1700’s, which led him to purchase twenty-five acres of cedar swamp, most likely between the
South School and Sumner Gardens. In the early 1900’s Stoughton Selectman Connie Sullivan constructed
a cranberry bog, and after considerable effort, established a new right-of-way in to his land, which may be the
current Sophia Road. This bog, whatever its productivity, or lack thereof, gained some fame because it
contained “the Great Tree,” a huge chestnut tree which was photographed by Stoughton photographer
George Gerard, early in the Century and John Stiles, in the 1930’s. Alas, fate in the form of an alien
pathogen cruelly intervened and all the large chestnut trees died in a blight before mid-Century.
Also in the neighborhood was the Thomas Glover house, built ca. 1744 and whose attic contained large
chestnut-board flooring, salvaged by David Lambert and me, some of which was used to create small
plaques for those who supported our unsuccessful efforts to save the house. One of these boards is
currently on display at the Society and a few others are in the basement, awaiting the next best idea for their
use. The posters for the South School’s 50th Anniversary, which were put together by Mary Reese and a
team of others, included the reference to the fact that one if their students, George Gay, lived in one of
Stoughton’s oldest houses, the Glover house.
Our crack team of Dan Mark, John Carabatsos, and Dave Foley gathered pictures and maps from a
variety of sources, including our own files, Town Reports, and the Library’s site for local newspaper
searches which chronicled the building of Sumner Gardens and the South School, as part of the massive
post WWII baby boom in our community. Dave Foley told us that the population of school-age children
tripled in one decade! The South School and the Chemung (later the Hansen) were built in a hurry, and
added onto within the next decade. The South School was not quite ready for its students in September of
1958, who were in double sessions at other local schools, but once the South opened in October, some
middle school students had to attend that school for a short period of time. Bob Zepf, who has become
much more active in the Society, and of whom as we will hear more later in the Newsletter, was a student at
the South in that first year. Goddard Hospital and Our Lady of the Rosary were also built at this time.
Among those attending the event was Sandra Jardin, who taught at the South School for two lengthy
tenures and has compiled four thick scrapbooks from her time there. Sandra also wrote us some
commentary in which she included the facts that under Principal Mary Daly, three of her teachers, Helen
Hansen, Dick Wilkens, and John Griffin went on to become principals at the Chemung, West, and
Gibbons, respectively. Also that custodian Billy Chapman, who Dave mentioned several times in the
program, would clear the snow off teachers cars. Stephanie Meyers Walsh added on Facebook: “Mr
Chapman was the best! He once came to our house around supper time to return my brother Brian’s shoes.
Yes, it is a longer story! These scrapbooks and much more information that Dave Foley did not have the
time to communicate, including the street-by-street progression of Sumner Gardens westward would seem to
justify a follow-up program at some time in the near future.
We have been able to finds the year-by-year dates that the streets expanded westwards at Sumner
Gardens, with the Lucas Drive houses being the last to be built in 1989-90, but we have not yet been able to
fix the date when the Atkinson Ave. Ext. was completed to connect the whole development out to Route
138. The south side of that short extension now has an apartment complex being built on it, next to the
Dana Barros Center and on the north side of the street will be a small parking lot to service the
Conservation Commission trails, which will run along the railroad tracks and provide access both to the site
of the dam/crossing for Connie Sullivan’s bog and Ryan Road, where the railroad tracks crossed Sumner
Street at the red bridge. The new South School is slated to be built north of the old Line Lumber Road,
which is the route of these railroad tracks between Sumner and Park streets.
On the following Tuesday at the Society, Dave Foley showed us some of the slides again, adding other
nice ones on the land on West St. and Plain St. Rich Pratt, who had seen enough on areas where he had
not lived, led us to the downtown area with his shots of where he grew up, during which I learned that the
house of our founder and Glen Echo developer Elisha Capen Monk still stands at the end of Monk Street.
We established that there was a time when Lincoln Street extended south only as far as Pleasant St. and that
the portion between Pleasant and Washington came later, much as the portion of Central St. between
Pleasant and Washington was also a later addition.
At the end of February, I represented the Historical Society at an event sponsored by the
Stoughton Diversity and Inclusion Organization, which was held at Juanita’s Restaurant. I will
grant that I did not have a particularly rhythmic rap, but I did get up there and ask how many folks (90% of
the audience were people of color) had lived in Stoughton their whole life, and there were maybe one or
two out of more than sixty folks, who raised their hand. I shared the fact that when we moved to Stoughton
in 1977 that I did not know ONE person in this Town, but that over time, I have adopted the Town as mine
through, first, getting to know a few very helpful neighbors, then having kids go to the Stoughton schools and
participating in youth sports. I also had my own distinctive path of extensive gardening and also exploring
field, woods, streams and ponds in town. Then after twenty years and retirement, I joined the Historical
Society and began to serve on various board in Town Government. I urged them to take their own route to
making Stoughton feel like their town. I welcomed them to any of our resources at the Historical Society
that would work for them and mentioned the upcoming Juneteenth walk into the Three Swamp
Homestead.
At the beginning of March, Stew and I attended an excellent presentation by Joe Blansfield
on the ice industry in Sharon, and in late March we attended another great presentation on
the History of Sharon by Dave Martin, also a member of our Society, on Sharon’s history. It
was from a program he had developed to introduce new firefighters to the history of the Town. Before that
program we ventured out to their small, but nicely constructed “Farm Museum,” which also contained a few
old farm implements on the grounds outside. We were inspired to do something similar, quite possibly in
the Town-owned barn on West Street that we have been challenged to find a use for. Stoughton has a rich
agricultural past, and the barn on West Street is the only barn in town that I know of, parts of which were
built before 1850 and has functioned as a working barn into the late 20th Century. We are gratified to be able
to share walks and programs with our neighboring historical societies and hope to do more of the same in
the upcoming year.
Every year our knowledge of Stoughton’s important and/or contributing women expands,
and our goal is to have a better program on the topic, each March.
In preparation for our Women of Stoughton Exhibit, I visited Darren Carey at Packard
Manse, who guided me to the picture of Josephine Crawford, which is still on the wall in the
kitchen, near the stove over which she is seen bending in the picture. It is the only picture that we can find
of Ms. Crawford, and we have displayed it prominently. I feared that the picture did not do justice to a
woman who had provided so much service to the Town, but she may have embraced it as symbolic of her
life of service. Other women who had prominent places in our Women of Stoughton exhibit were Alice
Magee, Bertha Capen Reynolds, Joanne Blomstrom, and Frances Pitts. Also on the list were: Susan Clapp
Bradley, Evelyn Callanan, Mary L. B. Capen-Reynolds, Amelia Clifton, Mary Daly, Mary Baker
Eddy, Margaret Fitzpatrick, Jeanne Fleming, Doris Holmes Blake, Genevieve Glennon, Mamie
Gray, Helen Lutted Hansen, Ruth Hansen, Ann Petterson, Eleanor Martrick Harris, Janice Hebb,
Lori McKenna, Donna McNamara, Sally McStowe, Joan O’Hare, Barbara Lutted O’Donnell, Alice
Petruzzo, Debrah Roberts, Maria Sacco, Debra Sampson, Peggy Seweyk, Cynthia Walsh, Susan
Walsh, Dorothy Woodward.
In response to a photo that was posted on Facebook, showing unidentified young women on the lawn of
the universalist Church, we found a copy of pics from the Stoughton High School graduating class of 1911.
Kevin Mooney had contributed the fact that one of the young women was Jane Mooney’s grandmother,
Joan O’Hare’s mother, Dorothy Alger Pierce. The pictures of the Class of 1915 showed us Dorothy Pierce,
but we could not identify any of the other women in the picture. Robert Atherton, (Joan O’Hare’s father)
who Dorothy later married is also in that Class picture. What we did see, though, was a photo of Gertrude
(Ruey) Marden, who has played a prominent role in many the stories we have passed along based on her
father, Edward Marden’s diary. The family was separated after their mother died, but Edward stayed in
touch with all of them. Ruey eventually went to nursing school on Huntington Ave. in Town and became
deathly ill with the flu, but survived. Her older brother Ray Marden is the Stoughton man who was killed in
the last few hours of WWI.
Late in March John Walker of Sandwich MA brought in a large bin of JW Wood Elastic
Web Company and Estate materials, including maps, account books, copies of company
newsletter, The Shuttle etc., a treasure trove made even better by the fact that he has an
itemized list of the donations, typed out. Mr. Walker became a Life member and participated in
Facebook discussions on which we posted some of the documents and maps from the collection. In The
Shuttle, we noted references to Horace Denison’s “Folly Farm” becoming Molly farm with the purchase of
two Gurnsey cows. We learned that Horace Denison was a major executive in the Company and was a
gentleman farmer on the side. Also mentioned was Carl Libby buying his 180 acres, including the Lucius
Clapp/house on West St. John Walker thought that he recollected that WWII troops had also drilled in
that area. We knew that WWI Home Guard volunteers had drilled there when it was Elijah Farrington’s
farm, because we have the pictures. We were able to find one newspaper article describing a night-time
exercise that was held at the gravel pit on the JW Wood’s estate. John, who visited the land many times
when he was young, pointed out the area on the maps they supplied us with where that gravel pit was
located.
On the advice of Dave Lambert, we purchased 10 glass negatives of Stoughton scenes from
eBay. Some of the scenes were easy to identify, but others provided challenges. One is of a house and
barns, which we have still not been able to identify, but another was of a large building, which baffled us at
first, but the distinctive fence in the picture proved to be that of the Universalist Church in the Center,
leading us to be able to be able to identify the building across the (Pleasant) street as the Atherton Boot
Factory, which became the headquarters of Brockton Crayon and Color Company and Pequa Press/The
Stoughton Sentinel. The picture was taken before the large sign was put on the building identifying the
Brockton Crayon Company. As many of you know, this building was standing when our building was built
as the Public Library in 1904. The Crayon Company came in around 1927/8/9 and Pequa Press may have
been there even earlier. The original boot factory was built in 1851 and that the building was demolished in
1943. In 1851, it would have been occupying the lot close to the Capen Tavern, which was not demolished
until after the Civil War.
Several months ago we received a message from Nancy Eyster Smith: “I am the
Corresponding Secretary for the New England Botanical Society (once Club) and have
learned that at our office at Harvard University, there are two boxes of Sidney Fay Blake’s
The Flora of Stoughton, Massachusetts that would end up being recycled, if we couldn’t find
people who would want them.” I made it clear that we did want them, because we were down to our last
three copies. With the help of Josh Olshin at the Stoughton Public Library, we made the transfer work.
Thank you, Josh and thank you Nancy M. Eyster-Smith! This little book contains 64 pages, and although
the pages of lists can appear dry and scientific, there are usually references to specific places in Stoughton
where they were found ca. 1900-1930 and several pages of introduction, which include Blake’s more general
observations of the Stoughton landscape, to which he which he would return each summer to observe and
record. We now have copies available: $2.00 for members, $3.00 for others.
Walking and Bridge-building- Bob Zepf has become our bridge repair specialist for trails on
Town conservation land. With the help of Stew Sterling and your President, Bob has built a small bridge at
Glen Echo on the trail which leads up to the land of the Massachusetts Tribe at Ponkapoag and a larger
bridge on the crossing over to the east side of Monk’s Meadow on the trail which leads out to Freely Drive
in Canton, making that here-to-fore somewhat perilous crossing safe and sound. Bob has also done most of
the clearing of the road along Monk’s Meadow, which makes our new trail in the southeast quadrant of the
Glen Echo property, an easier walk.
The bridge which crosses Whitman Brook in the middle of the Morse-Totman meadow was washed
away by the freshets of this past winter. The replacement bridge was completed during the past week with
old boards gathered from the Gay-Hurley-McNamara barn being put to good use. We also installed smaller
bridges to cross the two ditches that parallel the brook.
In early March, Stew, Gerry McDonald, and I attended a walk to the top of Rattlesnake Hill in Sharon,
during which a visiting geologist, Erica Amir-Lin shared her knowledge of the geology of the area, and we all
learned a lot. I contributed the observation that the straight run of Mountain Street, near the entrance to the
trail, most likely shows that it runs along one of the next range lines over from the range line, straight run of
West Street in Stoughton. The lines were one half mile apart, as shown on the Map of the 25 Divisions.
Speaking of maps. Larry Langlois, GIS Coordinator for the Engineering Department has re-worked our
large map of the Bird St Conservation Area, which includes the stone walls. That map is almost twenty
years old and does not show several new streets and houses. Larry has used a new template of current
streets, and added color for the conservation lands and outlined all the trails in the color which they are
designated. We still have a few tweaks to make, but when finished, it will be a great improvement and
resource for the serious map people.`
Around the Lucius Clapp Memorial – Attendees at our program on 4/28 got to see the beautiful
flowers on both sides of our entrance sidewalk, compliments of the tireless efforts of Rick and Linda
Woodward. Denise Peterson has been sending out the thank-you notes to people who have donated money
or given us artifacts.
New member Rich Terry visited us, and before buying a batch of Stoughton Samplers for his extended
family, contributed the story that he was a city boy, who moved to Stoughton as a youth. He embraced the
country life to the extent that he trapped muskrats (as had Ken Bird and Forrest Bird in earlier
generations.). Obviously, an ambitious lad, he ran a trapline of 80 traps along the brook between Old
Albert’s and points east. One day he took a shortcut to cross the Revnoff farm at the junction of Elm and
School streets. Farmer Revnoff stopped him somewhat gruffly, and demanded that he bring his two
muskrats into the barn and skin them. The incident ended happily, though, when farmer Revnoff kept the
bodies, which he said were good eating, and sent Rich on his way, still in possession of the valuable skins.
That is a tale from old timey Stoughton, for sure.
On one Tuesday morning in late February, we had an impromptu high school class reunion of the
Stoughton High School Class of 1965 class re-union of the Stoughton. In attendance were Dean Geddes,
Tami Neiman, Dixie Pushee, Bob Zepf, Denise Peterson, Joanne Callanan, Rich Pratt, and Stew Sterling.
Had Rick and Linda Woodward been there, they would have reached double figures.
Tales from Stoughton – Candace Dykeman brought in a large pair of ice tongs, which was used in the
Dykeman family ice business, probably a century ago. She said that the ruins of the ice house were still
visible on the edge of the pond/old cranberry bog behind their house. It is the next pond west of the pond
created by the excavation for Fuller’s Earth. She told the story of a “squatter” named Colby, who had a
cabin on their property. He may have gotten those rights for his as yet unknown to us role in the original
Dykeman purchase of the land. In his humble cabin, Mr Colby had an extensive collection of “bird points”
(arrowheads,) beautifully displayed, and the Dykeman version of the story is that he said they were going to
Dykemans when he died. But Chase Trowbridge found Mr Colby, frozen to death in the snow, and the
arrow-heads ended up with the Trowbridges who also lived nearby.
The strands of the Trowbridge family re-appeared that evening at the Historical Society, when Richard
Fitzpatrick presented me with information that he had just gathered from Stoughton newspaper files on Lt.
Herbert W Trowbridge, Chase’s son, who was killed in WWII. He was chief Engineer of the USS. S.B.
Roberts, which was torpedoed in the Second Battle of the Philippines. The story I had heard from my
neighbor Charles Shaw was that after the ship was hit by the torpedo, the Captain yelled down to Lt
Trowbridge to abandon ship. Trowbridge yelled up that he would leave the boiler room just as soon as he
could turn off the steam boiler. He was concerned that the boiler would explode when it sank into the cold
water. Then the ship exploded! To show how these Dry Pond Stoughton tales can entertwine further,
Charles Shaw had also told me that some of the arrowheads in the Trowbridge collection had been found
by his older brother, Ernie Shaw in McNamara’s fields and that he was the one who sold them to the
Trowbridges.
Matthew Sargent, who is compiling memorials for WWII soldiers had asked us to find personal
background information on Stoughton sailors Leon A. Burkett and Herbert W. Trowbridge. Richard Pratt
promptly found William Herbert Trowbridge’s (apparently he reversed first and last name in the military)
entry in the Stoughton High School yearbook in which we learned that William H was an outdoorsman,
who hunted, fished, and “gathered specimens for Miss Enos.” Richard Fitzpatrick had the vague
recollection (he had no idea why) that she was a teacher, and elsewhere in the yearbook, Rich Pratt found
out that, indeed, she taught Latin and Biology.
Richard Fitzpatrick and Dan Mark had already found considerable information on Leon Burkett in the
pages of his classes high school year book. He was the class poet, somewhat roguish and deeply enamored
of “Cukie,” who re-appeared in a later life as the Alice Benjamin, whom many of us knew very well. She
married David Benjamin in 1948, five years after her high school sweetheart was killed.
Archivists Report
Created an INDEX for, and bound a Booklet titled “Stoughton; its advantages, Beauties and Business Features,
described and Illustrated.” Published from the office of the Stoughton Sentinel – (Un-Dated) (PHOTO Copy, of this
booklet was found in the boxes of material received from Howard Hansen.) File No. 718.38. To my knowledge, this
is the only copy of this document the Historical Society has.
Feb. 1, Dave Lambert brought in another bag of Hansen material (second of two.)
Feb 22, he brought in a large package of material from his own collection in his garage.
February 27, Received from the estate of Joe DeVito: One OPTELEC “Clearview Speech Reader”, c. 2016. A
twenty-seven, inch, DELL Computer Monitor. Both have been put into use.
March 19, Darlene Hayner, donated two Stoughton Advertising maps one dated 1983 and one dated 1988. Both
added to the collection of same/similar on my desk.
March 26, We received from John Walker, of Sandwich, (He is a Grandson of John W. Wood, of the J. W. Wood
Elastic Web Co.) a large number of Newsletters, published by the company between starting in June of 1914 through
to the Companies Golden Jubilee in 1955. Also included is a three- page list of other Items and Objects donated. I
have spent most of my time since, trying to integrate all of the new material into our existing collection. (Because of
the scattered method used to file new items in the past. This has necessitated the re-numbering of all of our pre-
existing items.) -Richard
Fitzpatrick
Curator’s Report
Curator’s Report – Ken Beauregard has cleaned up the large backlog of undocumented artifacts and
continues with the long-term project to identify, and more completely record, the location and particular
attributes of the individual artifacts which have been donated to the Society over the years.
In addition, Ken continues to log-in and file new donations of artifacts. Again, many thanks to Ken for the
good work he has contributed to the Society, and the help he has provided to me in particular.
New Acquisitions: From Joe Blansfield and the Sharon Historical Society: A china cup showing the
Stoughton Town House (Town Hall). This is a fine addition to our collection of similar chinaware in our
“Faxon” display case. From David Lambert: 4 Printers Blocks, including 2 with “Shawmut Mills” seals, one
being steel and the other steel on a wood block; a steel on wood block of the Stoughton Masonic Hall on
Wyman Street; and a steel on wood block showing the Stoughton Historical Society. We are grateful to all
who have donated artifacts. -Richard Pratt
Memberships
New members: –Richard and Eleanor Terry, Maurice Renzy, William Hogan, Paul
and Linda Landry, John Walker (lifetime), Judith Garrick Fallon.