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Northborough Historical Society

P.O. Box 661, 52 Main Street, Northborough, MA 01532

Info@NorthboroughHistoricalSociety.org 508‑393‑6298

 

SCHEDULE

Programs will usually be held on the fourth Friday of the month at the Historical society, but check back here closer to the event for any changes due to winter storms or other events.

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CURRENT YEAR PROGRAMS

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Summary
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Curremt Year Programs

Alternatively, a summary of all 2025 - 2026 programs in PDF form can be found here.  All programs are free and open to the public unless otherwise stated.

For more information, contact us at: Info@NorthboroughHistoricalSociety.org or 508.393.6298.

 

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UPCOMING PROGRAM DETAILS
description of the upcoming 2025-2026 program

Date: May 15, 2026

Time: 7:00 p.m.

Place: The Historical Society Building, 52 Main St., Northborough.

Title: Before There Was a Dam

Description: From Northborough the way north ran straight across the Nashua River Valley through West Boylston. That all changed with the coming of the coming of the Wachusett Reservoir in 1895. Come with Paul Marrone as he takes you on a colorful tour by river, road and rail through the once beautiful and peaceful valley as it appeared. Before There Was a Dam.

 

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PAST PROGRAMS
DateTitle (click to see program details)
PROGRAMS 2025 - 2026 : HTML or PDF
24-Apr-26How Isaiah Thomas Brought the Revolution to Worcester
27-Mar-26The Legacy of Inventor Thomas Blair
27-Feb-26The Battle of Bunker Hill
23-Jan-26You'll Get a Bang Out of Henry Knox
05-Dec-25History of the Juniper Hill Golf Course
24-Oct-25Ben Franklin and the Road to Independence
26-Sep-25Hidden Illness in the White House: Patient Confidentiality vs. the Public Good
PROGRAMS 2024 - 2025 : HTML or PDF
16-May-25The Original Bucky Lew. Basketball’s First Black Professional Player
25-Apr-25Northborough During the Revolutionary War
28-Mar-25White Cliffs, an Architectural Marvel
28-Feb-25The USGS Stream Stats Program
24-Jan-25The Agricultural Branch Railroad
06-Dec-24Beaver Meadows to Farmed Wetlands and Back
25-Oct-24Meet the unsung heroine behind the new deal: Frances Perkins - PART 2
27-Sep-24Backyard Astronomy
PROGRAMS 2023 - 2024 : HTML or PDF
17-May-24Major Taylor: The Worcester Whirlwind
26-Apr-24The Blizzard of ’78
22-Apr-24Meet the unsung heroine behind the new deal: Frances Perkins - PART 1
22-Mar-24The Summer of 1787: Writing the US Constitution
23-Feb-24Landmark Civil Rights Legislation of the Mid 1960s
26-Jan-24Underground History at Blackstone National Park
01-Dec-23Byzantine and Russian Icons
27-Oct-23The Great Boston Fire: The Inferno that Nearly Incinerated the City
22-Sep-23The Family Nurse: Home Medical Care in the Early Nineteenth Century
PROGRAMS 2022 - 2023
19-May-23Eleanor Roosevelt – The First Lady of The World
28-Apr-2319th Century Medicine: Doctors and Their Times
24-Mar-23Northborough’s Nineteenth Century Lyceum
24-Feb-23Code Breaking
27-Jan-23The Local Historic Districts of Northborough
02-Dec-22The Unsung Heroes Who Helped Break Baseball’s Color Barrier
28-Oct-22Challenger: Soaring with Christa McAuliffe
23-Sep-22The Burnett Garfield House
PROGRAMS 2021 - 2022
20-May-22Mark "The Bird" Fidrych:   Flyer-1 | Flyer-2
22-Apr-22Third Parties in America 1860 to 2016
25-Mar-22Bathsheba Spooner - A Revolutionary Murder Conspiracy
25-Feb-22The Burnett Garfield House - Canceled due to winter storm
28-Jan-22Third Parties in America - Rescheduled to April due to COVID-19
03-Dec-21The Vikings. An Icelandic Saga
22-Oct-21The First Year
24-Sep-21Lucy Stone
PROGRAMS 2020 - 2021
  n/aAll programs canceled due to COVID-19
PROGRAMS 2019 - 2020
22-May-20Program canceled due to COVID-19
24-Apr-20Program canceled due to COVID-19
27-Mar-20Program canceled due to COVID-19
28-Feb-20The Scholar and the Slaves
24-Jan-20The Collings Foundation
06-Dec-19Mysteries From Our Museum
25-Oct-19Wicked Pissed: New England’s Most Famous Feuds
PROGRAMS 2018 - 2019
17-May-19A Night at the Museum
26-Apr-19Murder Mystery
22-Mar-19A Visit with Louisa May Alcott
22-Feb-19Eating Out
25-Jan-19How many Historical Markers have you seen in Northborough?
07-Dec-18Traditions of Yesteryear
26-Oct-18Spreading Beauty
28-Sep-18Appalachian Mountain Club: Leaders in the Outdoors Since 1876 (no flyer)
PROGRAMS 2017 - 2018
18-May-18Fill ‘Er Up!
27-Apr-18The Cuban Missile Crisis: 13 Days at the Brink of Nuclear Warfare (no flyer)
23-Mar-18An Evening with General and Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant
23-Feb-18The Doctors are In!
26-Jan-18The Ride of Their Lives
01-Dec-17A Victorian Christmas
27-Oct-17Rounders To Baseball
22-Sep-17All Aboard!
PROGRAMS 2016 - 2017
19-May-17Photo Mysteries: Family Histories
07-May-17Northborough In The Trenches
28-Apr-17The Building of the Aqueduct
31-Mar-17The Molasses Flood of 1919
24-Feb-17TORNADO!
27-Jan-17Mapping it Out
02-Dec-16A Portrait of the Victorian Age
28-Oct-16A Look Down the Road: Historic Route 20
PROGRAMS 2015 - 2016
27-May-16What Do YOU Remember?
22-Apr-16The Lost Art of Etiquette
18-Mar-16To the Rescue!
26-Feb-16Who Lyeth Here?
22-Jan-16A Night of History, a Night of Song
04-Dec-15A Date Which Will Live in Infamy
23-Oct-15An Evening with Mark Twain
25-Sep-15A Night at the Museum
PROGRAMS 2014 - 2015
20-May-15American Harmony - Step back in time…
24-Apr-15Listen my children and you shall hear…
27-Mar-15Myth, Legend, Obscurity
27-Feb-15Take a Walk through History (the old Connecticut Path)
23-Jan-15Who was Wilder Bush?
05-Dec-14Cooking by the Book in New England
24-Oct-14Titanic
26-Sep-141912-1920: the Era of the 19th Amendment
PROGRAMS 2013 - 2014
16-May-14Luanne Crosby, music from the Civil War
25-Apr-14Money, Money, Money – Making a Living in the 19th Century
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