Stow Historical Society

Stow, Massachusetts 01775
Established in 1961

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The following past newsletters are available:

2025

  • October 9, 2025
    • Annual Meeting reminder
  • October 1, 2025
    • Announcing the Annual Meeting on Sunday, October 19th
    • Corrections to the September Newsletter
  • September 1, 2025
    • 100 Years of Golf in Stow
    • 60th Anniversary of the Marble Hill Conservation Land
    • Replacement of the Henry Gardner sign
    • Black Patriots of Stow and Boxborough
    • Remembering Lew Halprin
  • May 1, 2025
    • Remembering April 19th
  • April 10, 2025
    • The 250th Anniversary of the Shot Heard Round the World

2023

2022

  • April 28, 2022
    • Stow’s Patriotism through the Centuries: Part Two
  • March 7, 2022
    • Stow TV and the SHS wrote and produced a documentary, paying tribute to Stow’s Women of 1920.
      youtu.be/0gfaaz6Ttb4
      Many thanks to Jonathan Daisy, Executive Producer Stow TV, and the narrators,
      Linda Hathaway, Bruce Fletcher, Dorothy Sonnichsen, Ellen Sturgis, and Marilyn Zavorski.
  • February 4, 2022
    • Black History Month: Robert H. Hawkins & the Creation of Mapledale C. C. in 1926
  • January 20, 2022
    • Viewing Stow through the Annual Town Reports 1846-1930
    • Celebrating Stow’s Women, published by the SHS in April of 2021
    • SHS is seeking individuals to help facilitate planning, programming, and writing.

2021

  • December 04, 2021
    • 1883: Honoring Stow’s fallen soldiers during the Civil War
    • 1895: seven Stow women registered to vote in the 1895 Massachusetts Referendum to allow women to vote in municipal elections.
    • Stow in the 1950’s
    • 1976: The formation of the Stow Unit of the League of Women Voters
    • Remembering Stow’s Alan Hearsey Ferguson
    • SHS is seeking individuals to help facilitate planning, programming, and writing.
  • August 30, 2021, Lake Boon Water Carnival
    • New Books:
      • Celebrating Stow’s Women, published by the SHS
      • A History of Lake Boon, 100th Anniversary of the Lake Boon Association
    • Donations and research inquiries to the SHS
    • Stow’s Whitney siblings and their 1920’s bequests to the Town of Stow
  • April 29, 2021, Celebrating Stow’s Women book signing, May 1st
    • An 1832 Stow letter written by Stow’s Rufus Hosmer, Esq. to his son, Rufus Hosmer, Jr.
  • April 11, 2021, Celebrating Stow’s Women, 1920 and the 19th Amendment
    • Book Signing Saturday May 1, 2021, Pompo Community Center Parking Lot
    • Seeking volunteers and new SHS Board members
    • Patriots Day, Monday April 19, 2021
    • Civil War video by Drew Abrutyn
    • Boundary markets at Delaney
    • Wareham-Stow connection
  • February 28, 2021, Stow Town Hall survey on renovations;
    • Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge April 21, 2021 (Zoom);
    • Spindle Hill, Stow’s Women and the 19th amendment book

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

  • October, 2015, Annie Sullivan Program, Annual Meeting Dinner
  • May, 2015, Springfest Programs
  • April, 2015, Bells across the Land, 150th Anniversary of the end of the Civil War

2014

  • October, 2014, Hartacks Civil War Music and History, Stow Town Hall, November 15, 2014
  • October, 2014, Gleasondale Walking Tour part II poster
  • September, 2014, Stow West School New England Storyteller, October 5, 2014
  • July, 2014, SHS Email Notice from July 9, 2014
  • June, 2014, Stow West School Oral History Program, June 29, 2014
  • March, 2014, Minutemen Potluck Dinner April 4, 2014

2013

  • October, 2013, Graveyard Graphics Program, Stow Town Hall, October 19, 2013
  • September, 2013, Mary Rowlandson Program, West School, September, 2013
  • July, 2013, Stow Skills Program, West School, July 7, 2013
  • June, 2013, Oral History, West School, June, 2013
  • May, 2013, Springfest, May, 2013
  • March, 2013, Changes in the Land, March, 2013
  • February, 2013, Historical Weather Program, Randall Library, February 7, 2013

2012

1990-2011