The Somerville Public Library contains an abundance of resources documenting the local history of our community. One of those resources is our Library Blog which showcases, among other things such as library updates and book reviews, local history articles. This page congregates all of the Local History blog posts in one place.
Local History blog posts by Date
Blog Post Date Added The Industrial School for Girls, 1911 06/23/2021 Historic Blazes in Somerville Schools, 1979 02/25/2021 The Blizzard of ’78 01/28/2021 Somerville Theatre, 1914 12/31/2020 Pitching in During WWI: SHS Students to the Rescue 10/29/2020 Sam Walter Foss: SPL Librarian, Journalist, and Poet, 1858-1911 09/24/2020 Historic Somerville Meets “Hamilton” 08/27/2020 Lamps of Learning at the West Branch Library, 1909 05/15/2020 We Miss You!, 1976 03/26/2020 The SPL Traveling Library, 1901 01/09/2020 Somerville’s Inspector General of Hops, 1806-1842 05/16/2019 Before there was a West Branch…, 1896 04/18/2019 Hurricane of 1938 09/20/2018 Somerville’s First Park, 1870 08/23/2018 Ghosts at the West Branch?, Early 20th Century 08/02/2018 Remembering George Dilboy, WWI hero killed in action 100 years ago today 07/18/2018 SHS Radiator cover illustrations by Bill Hanley, Mid 1940s 06/21/2018 Mae D. Frazer, Somerville’s first known female publisher, 1852-1919 03/24/2018 The Mid-Century Puzzle Craze at SPL 02/24/2018 New Biography of Somerville’s Missy LeHand, 1896-1944 08/31/2016 The Somerville Round House of 36 Atherton Street, 1847 07/15/2016 American Journalism at its Finest, 1914 04/15/2016 Why Isn’t Clarence Wearing Pants? 03/19/2016 The Boston Heat Wave of 1911 08/26/2015 Happy 100th, Central Branch, 1914 06/04/2014 The Parthenon Enigma, Ancient Greece 03/11/2014 Whitey Bulger – Book List 08/12/2013 Clarence and Damoxenus, Ancient Greece; 1907 06/24/2008
