Historic Articles
Here are some links to historic articles. More to come.
Planning document for Boxborough's 225th Birthday - July 2008
Education for Boxborough 1783-2013 - presentation by John Fallon on Feb 23, 2014
Boxborough Feb. 25, 1783 - How the Town Came to Be - presentation by John Fallon on Feb 22, 2015
Bill Establishing Boxborough as a Town - written in 1783
Schoolhouse #2 and Memories - compiled in 2021 for Hidden Treasures Day - Alan Rohwer and Mary Larson
Cate Taylor and Prince Chester - written in 2021
Cate Taylor and Prince Chester video - written in 2021 and narrated by Cheryl Mahoney
Education for Boxborough - written by John Fallon in 2021
Boxborough One Room Schoolhouses - written by John Fallon in 2021
Boxborough Population - written by John Fallon in 2021
Boxborough Ice House - written by Duncan Brown in 2020
Town History - written by Alan Rohwer in 2015
Gazetteer - Writeup from "A Gazetteer of the State of Massachusetts" - published in 1874
Thoreau - Henry David Thoreau's Visits to Boxborough - by Alan Rohwer in 1998
Thoreau's Walks around Boxborough - written by Alan Rohwer in 2012
History of Route 495 - written by Alan Rohwer in 2013
Historic Photos
Boxboro Station WW1 - at the Boxboro flag stop on the Fitchburg Branch of the Boston and Maine, awaiting the returning servicemen ~1918
Raising the Flag, Schoolhouse #4 on Burroughs Road
Auction of Schoolhouse #3
Boxborough volunteer firefighters 1955, in front of the "new" Town Hall with Truck #2, the Town's first new truck which they had built themselves
Boxborough's "new" Town Hall, built in 1901
View up Middle Road ~1940. In foreground Levi Wetherbee/Steele Farm, now Town owned and on the National Register of Historic Places. Meetinghouse Hill and Library Hall in the background.
Whitcomb House farmstead on what is now Cunningham Road ~1890's
Wagon ride at the top of Middle Road at Hill Road, the old/current Town Common.
Original Town Common, including the Universalist Church later called Library Hall, which was the original meeting house, burned in 1953. Called "an old friend" it remains the symbol of the Boxborough Historical Society.