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
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Date Added
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| 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 |
| Rembering 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 |
