Historic Somerville

 

Preserving the Past for Our Future 

Historic Somerville Inc.
9 Knowlton St.
Somerville, MA 02145

eschofield2014@gmail.com

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  • Mission
  • About Us
    • Membership form 2018
    • Meeting Location/Contact Us
  • Online Membership Renewal
  • Lecture and Event Tickets
  • Spring 2018 Events
    • An Afternoon with Kevin Dua
    • 242nd Flag Raising
  • Pictures and Past Events
    • Ghosts of Somerville
    • Veterans Day 2017
    • HS Lecture: The Yankee Division, Dan Breen
    • Winter Holiday Party
    • Docent Tours Fall 2017
    • Spring 2017 Lecture Series and Events
    • Bulfinch and the Barrell Mansion, Joseph Cornish
    • Inventing the Charles River, Karl Haglund
    • Revisiting the Flag at Prospect Hill - Byron DeLear
    • Spring 2016 lectures
    • The Jews of Somerville and greater Boston
    • Milk Row Cemetery Tour
    • The History of Somerville Lumber
    • Fall 2015 Local History Lectures
    • From Smyrna to Belleau Wood and the Second Battle of the Marne by Dr. Daniel Breen
    • Charles Williams Jr.: Somerville's Connection to the First Telephone
    • Somerville Past and Present: Images of a Century of Change by Jeff Myers
    • Boston and the Civil War; Hub of the Second Revolution
    • My Life in the First African-American Unit of the Air Force
    • History of Agriculture in Somerville
    • Art Glass of the Union Glass Co.
    • Fall 2014 Events
    • Friday, Dec. 12th, 7-9PM, Winter Holiday Party
    • Tuesday, November 11th, 2:30PM, Veterans' Day Remembrance Ceremony
    • Sunday, Nov. 9th, 2-4PM, talk by Prof. Dan Breen, The March to Laurel Hill in 1864
    • Saturday, Oct.25th 3-5PM, Mr. Allen's Tidal Powered Rope Walk
    • Thursday, Oct. 23, 5-6:30PM, Milk Row Cemetery Docent-led Tour
    • Ghosts of Somerville 2014 pictures!
    • Milk Row Cemetery Docent Led Tours
    • Mystic River Roundtable with Richard Beinecke
    • Defiance of the Patriots lecture
    • 2013 Holiday Wreath Donations
    • The Spirit of Somerville: Booksigning by Eugene Brune
    • Struggles Unceasing: The POW Experience of the Somerville Guard in the Civil War
    • Ghosts of Somerville 2013
    • For Better or Worse: 19th C. Tales Along the Middlesex and Washington, D.C. Canals
    • The Better Homes Movement in Somerville, 1922-1930
    • Workshop: Repair Historic Windows
    • The Somerville I Didn't Know: The Influence of Africans, West-Indians and African Americans on Somerville, 1630-1860.
    • May is Preservation Month - Events 2013
    • The Mystic River: March 24th Lecture
    • Raising the Roof and More
    • First Flag - January 1st, 2013
    • The Struggles of the 39th Massachusetts Volunteers
    • Somerville: Haven for Ingenious Minds
    • Militia versus Regulars in America's War of Independence
    • The Menace of the Three Decker
    • Patriots Day 2012
    • Lafayette in Somerville (Charlestown Beyond the Neck) 1824-25
    • 236th Raising of the Grand Union Flag 2012
    • April 18th, 2011 Patriots Day Colonial Fair at Foss Park
    • 2010: Paul Revere and Colonial Fair in Somerville's Foss Park
    • Ghosts of Somerville Open Cemetery Tour 2010
    • Ghosts of Somerville 2009
    • Ghost of Somerville 2006-08
    • Alan Hoffman Lecture on General Lafayettes Tour of America 1824-25
    • Reenactments
    • Costumes for 1776
  • The Civil War Monument
    • Reading the Monument
    • West Side of the Monument
    • The South Side of the Monument
    • East Side of the Monument
    • North Side of the Monument
    • The Obelisk
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    • The advantages of repairing rather than replacing your historic windows
  • Preservation
  • Links Related to Somerville and History
    • The Barrell Mansion on Cobble Hill
    • The Round House
    • The Round House Interior - 1950s-1960s.
    • Greek Immigration to Somerville
    • Soldiers and Sailors Monument
    • American Legion and Vietnam Memorials
    • Spanish War Monument

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Donations to Historic Somerville support in part:

The festivals and celebrations of the history of Somerville including the First Flag Raising, Patriots Day at Foss Park, our participation in the Memorial Day Parade, the Ghosts of Somerville at Milk Row Cemetery, and the Dedication of a Wreath at the Milk Row Cemetery Civil War Monument on Veterans Day

Donations to Historic Somerville support high quality research into the history of our City through the presentation of five to six lectures annually as part of our Local History Lecture series.  These lectures are taped and may be made available on request.

Donations support our collaboration with the Somerville High School History Department to involve high school students in learning local history in an entertaining way.

Donations support efforts to preserve and protect the cultural treasures of Somerville, including the Somerville Museum and the Milk Row Cemetery.

Thank you for your support!  Your donations to Historic Somerville are  tax-deductible as charitable contributions to the extent provided by law.


To Donate by Check:

Please send your check to our Treasurer:

Dyan Blewett

48 Tennyson St.

Somerville, MA 02145

  • To Donate Online:

    Click on the PayPal button below to donate to Historic Somerville.

    Your donations support our work to keep our rich heritage alive!

    Thank you again!

    

 


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Historic Somerville Inc.
9 Knowlton St.
Somerville, MA 02145

eschofield2014@gmail.com

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