Needham History: Towering Above
On a clear day you can see Forever... Or Waltham. Paul Hadley, an engineer for Westinghouse, working on the installation of the WBZ tower in...
Needham History: The Old Cellar Hole
A vacant, weed-clogged lot - for twenty-nine years! The corner of Great Plain Avenue and Chapel Street around 1910, with the weedy Cellar Hole in...
Needham History: Ahoy Mateys!
Exploring Needham's rich maritime history The house of Captain Gorham Burkett on Highland Avenue, now the site of Walgreen's. At the time the house was...
Needham History: Needham vs. Wellesley – The Back Story
Back to a time when the rivalry was darker and more serious... The Barachiah Mason map of Needham, 1771. At the time, the town included...
Needham History: Does Rosemary Grow at Rosemary Lake?
Admit it - it's an earworm, and if you are over 50, you are humming it now. ("Love grows...") Or not. Canoeing and fishing on...
Needham History: A Rite of Passage
"Cattel Should feed on the Roads and Commons in the Town." Or not. Howard Tisdale walks his cows in 1895, on Webster Street at the...