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Needham History: So Sleep the Saints
Local History Needham History Center and Museum

Needham History: So Sleep the Saints

No ghosts. No pirates. The cemetery is where people lie quiet in the loving care that put them to rest. Gravestones carved by Henry Christian...

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Needham History: The Kingsbury Block Fire
Local History Needham History Center and Museum

Needham History: The Kingsbury Block Fire

One of the last surviving structures from the early development of the downtown. The four-alarm fire at the Kingsbury Building, during the night of July...

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Needham History: The Green Book
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Needham History: The Green Book

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Tuskegee Airman Inspires Residents to ‘Do the Right Thing’
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Tuskegee Airman Inspires Residents to ‘Do the Right Thing’

October 8, 2024 • Enoch “Woody” Woodhouse imparted nearly 100 years of wisdom to a large crowd in Needham, recounting stories of his youth, military...

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Cameron Morsberger
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Needham History: Village Falls Park
Local History Needham History Center and Museum

Needham History: Village Falls Park

Beneath the dark water along the riverbank, the old turbine and buckets lie quietly. [caption id="attachment_133048" align="alignnone" width="800"] The mill and falls in 1886, in...

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Needham History: The New Deal in Needham
Local History Needham History Center and Museum

Needham History: The New Deal in Needham

"Poems are made by fools like me, But God, I think, made Franklin D." The Dwight School building on Central Avenue was built with WPA...

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Polly Attridge
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