Acton Library, Acton, Massachusetts -- History and Genealogy Room

Acton Memorial Library 1889

Built as a memorial to those who died in the Civil War.

Addition at the entire back and side. The circular addition is a teen reading area.

Photo of original library.

The locked cubicles is where the genealogy material is kept. 

Massachusetts "Tan Books" may be seen (births, marriages, and deaths to 1850).

Quite a large Civil War exhibit, with a lot about Acton soldiers.

*See flyer about the Library's Civil War website, at the bottom .

Microfilm Room (above)

Original fireplace and front door at left.

Below is a shot looking out the front entrance, next to door.

Excellent site to search for your ancestors if they were from Acton and fought in the Civil War. The records for 374 men include: Index to Soldiers and Sailors, Regimental histories, Pension Files, G.A.R records, Obituaries, Veteran grave markers (with photos), Documents and Manuscripts, and Extensive Bibliography.

http://www.actonmemoriallibrary.org/civilwar/index.html

Augustus Saint-Gaudens -- Tombstone Tuesday

  Augustus Saint-Gaudens was cremated and is buried on his property.

If you would like to see more of his house (above), studio and fabulous gardens, please see my Blog, from earlier today at Home, Gardens and Studios of Augustus Saint- Gaudens.

Home, Gardens and Studio of Augustus Saint-Gaudens

View from the Studio of Augustus Saint-Gaudens in Cornish, New Hampshire, looking towards Mt. Ascutney in Vermont.

Side view of the house and side porch.

 

Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site
 http://www.nps.gov/saga/index.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Gaudens_National_Historic_Site

 Front of the studio.

Outside the studio, above and below.

"Diana"in the Studio.

PBS Documentary - Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Master of American Sculpture - The Diana (4.07 minute tape)

"The Puritan" Deacon Samuel Chapin

(the original is in Springfield, MA.)

Shaw Memorial (above), the original is in Boston.

Two small turtle fountains.

There is a 50 minute YouTube report about Augustus Saint-Gaudens, New Yorker, and His Metropolitan Museum Art, on view at the Met June 30-November 15, 2009. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC_P0jG6K8U

Franklin Pierce Homestead, Hillsborough, New Hampshire

Franklin Pierce Homestead

Hillsborough, New Hampshire

Pierce Homestead

The Pierce Homestead was built in

1804 by Benjamin Pierce, a general

in the American Revolution, twice

governor of New Hampshire (1827-28),

1829-30), and father of

Franklin Pierce, the 14th President of the

United States (1853-57). Franklin

Pierce was born in Hillsboro November

23, 1804 and the family occupied

this dwelling shortly thereafter.

Built in 1804 by Benjamin Pierce

Officer in the Revolutionary War

and Governor of New Hampshire in 1827-1829

Birthplace of his son Franklin Pierce

Fourteenth President of

The United States

Restored and Given to the

State of New Hampshire in 1925

as a Memorial to

Major Frederick A. Kendall

U. S. Army 1861 - 1884 and

Virginia Hutchinson Kendall

by their son

Captain Hayward Kendall  U. A. Army 1917-1919

Roger Clap, Memorial Site, Watertown, Massachusetts

Roger Clap Memorial, landing site in 1630, Watertown, Massachusetts

Roger is my 8th great-grandfather, and I wrote about trying to locate his burial site in 2011, "Searching for Roger Clap's Burial Place, Found in Front of Me!"

Charles River, behind the memorial.

For the entire year, all my photos have been taken with the iPad ver.4. Once nice thing about it is the ability to enlarge photos, including the below engraved marker.

HERE LANDED ROGER CLAP

AND THE DORCHESTER MEN

JUNE 1630

"We went up the Charles River, until the river

grew narrow and shallow, and there we

landed our goods with much labor and toil,

the bank being steep; and night coming on,

we were informed that there were hard by

us three hundred Indians. One Englishman,

that could speak the Indian language

(an old planter) went to them and advised

them not to come near us in the night; and

they harkened to their counsel, and came

not. In the morning, some of the Indians

came and stood at a distance off, looking

at us, but came not near us. But when they

had been a while in view, some of them

came and held out a great bass towards

us; so we sent a man with a biscuit, and

changed the cake for the bass. We had not

been there many days, (although by our

diligence we had got up a kind of shelter

to save our goods in,) but we had order to

come away from that place which was about

Watertown, unto a place called Mattapan

now Dorchester, because there was a neck

of land fit to keep our cattle on."

From

Roger Clap's Narrative

Erected by

The Historical Society of Watertown

1967

Second Congregational Church of Boxford, Massachusetts

Wikipedia information on Boxford. Photos taken Memorial Day weekend.

Second Congregational Church of Boxford, MA

United Church of Christ

Founded 1736

Taken in August 2013

Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts -- The Town, The Monuments and The Bridge

Shelburne Falls is the home to the World Famous "Bridge of Flowers," a bridge over the Deerfield River.
 

 In Honor of

The Citizens of the

Towns of Buckland and Shelburne

Who Served in the Armed Forces of

Our Country in World Wars I and II

And in Loving Memory of the

Following Who Made the Supreme Sacrifice

WORLD WAR I

Ernest Winford Goodnow

Roy Farrell Shirtcliff

 WORLD WAR II

Gilbert Irving Allis	Thomas Joseph Neary, Jr.
Hollis Elwin Andrews	Homer James Richmond
Herman Austin Burdick	Robert Wilder Swan
Russell Delano Chamberlain	George Roland Trumble
Albert Henry Farrell	Oliver Joseph Turner
Stanley Gadomski	Robert Earl Whitbeck
William Francis Hourahan, Jr.	Robert Bardwell Williams
John Hames Kennedy

One of the unique houses in town.

In Honor of

The Citizens of the

Towns of Buckland and Shelburne

Who Served in the Armed Forces of

Our Country in Korea and Vietnam Wars

And in Loving Memory of the

Following Who Made  the Supreme Sacrifice

KOREA

Walter Harold Billiel

VIETNAM

William Kimball Batchelder

Paul Thomas Looney

James Edward Palmeri

Ernest Ray Taylor, Jr.

Ronald Edward Wissman

1890

Bridge Committee

George G. Merrill	Emerson J. Griswold
David W. Temple	Michael Atkins
George E. Taylor	George Rowland

Edward S. Shaw, Engineer

Vermont Construction Co. Contractors

R. F. Hawkins, President