Westford Historical Society

Over the weekend I went to my town's historical society to look at some of the scrapbooks they had in storage. They had a few of them for me that the intern brought down.

The first scrapbook I looked at had a red cover that said "photo album" on it. All of the pictures were gone because I think they have them in the museum on display or something so I didn't really spend much time looking through it. It was just full of captions about Trolley Cars.

The second one was from 1949 about the "Tadmuck Club" I know of Tadmuck Road in my town and I believe it was some form of womens club. It had brown pages and was full of newspaper clippings, invitations, and notes.

Another scrapbook I looked at was green with numbered pages and was full of mostly just newspaper articles. There was a lot about wool oil or something...whatever that is. But I did notice that it was one of the Mark Twain scrapbooks.
Then I looked through a huge 3-ring binder full of Westford Academy graduation programs from 1892-1968. It was neat to notice how they gradually change over time. They all said Westford Academy with a picture of the school, a border, "Graduation Exercises," place, date, and time.That is actually the museum building now.


The last scrapbook I looked at was huge and the paper was falling apart. It was from 1899 and belonged to Lottie Blogett. It had a prayer card in it and small decorative post-card type of things in it. There were lots of images of birds, flowers, and women, and she used flower stickers.