Latest Blog Posts for Recollecting Nemasket

• South Main Street Snow, Easter 1915
  on Feb 12, 2015 in snow South Main Street
  South Main Street looking southwestward from Nickerson Avenue (right) and Webster Street (left). The street is virtually impassable save for the street railway tracks.
• Another View from Easter 1915
  on Feb 12, 2015 in Center Street Central Baptist Church Peirce Academy snow
  The intrepid photographer that ventured out to capture the scene of Center Street covered by snow on Easter Sunday (April 4), 1915, also took this photograph of Peirce Academy with the Central Baptist Church in the background. (Thatcher's Row is just...
• Easter Sunday, 1915
  on Feb 11, 2015 in Center Street snow
  One of the more historically notable snowstorms in Middleborough's past was the blizzard of Easter Sunday 1915. Described by the Middleboro Gazette as one of the worst in years, the storm in early April dumped a considerable quantity of snow on the t...
• A Horse Founders in Snow, 1886
  on Feb 9, 2015 in horses snow
     Prior to the arrival of the automobile, the arrival of winter snow meant the substitution of sleighs for carriages and the replacement of wheels with runners, with runnered vehicles gliding easily on hard-packed snow. Deep snows however were ano...
• Vandalous Pigs That Swim, 1895
  on Jan 11, 2015 in Nemasket Hill Cemetery
  Sadly Middleborough's cemeteries, like those elsewhere, are periodically the objects of vandalism.  In the early autumn of 1895, the Nemasket Hill Cemetery saw its grounds vandalized by unlikely perpetrators - pigs - who swam along the river.  The...
• Lactart, 1880s
  on Jan 7, 2015 in B. F. Tripp
  Who wants a big glass of Lactart? Lactart (acid of milk) was a popular beverage flavoring produced by the Avery Lactate Company of Boston beginning in the early 1880s and was available in Middleborough at local grocers like Lucas & Bliss. It cou...
• Middleborough Public Library in Snow, 1957
  on Dec 22, 2014 in Middleborough Public Library snow
  Illustration: Middleborough Public Library in snow, photograph by Clint Clark, 1957.
• Santa House, 1954
  on Dec 19, 2014 in Christmas
  Certainly among the most fondly recalled memories for many adults are childhood visits to Santa, when with list in hand and nerves steeled we went with firm resolve to inform the jolly old man of all our Christmas wants and desires. For a number of...
• Church of Our Saviour Christmas Parish Fair, 1930s
  on Dec 18, 2014 in Christmas Church of Our Saviour
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• Central Baptist Church Christmas Sale and Play, 1931
  on Dec 18, 2014 in Central Baptist Church Christmas
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