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True Tales from Canton’s Past: Dividing Lines
We have this strange attraction to thinking that this is our land. We place fences and markers and boundaries upon our property. We feel aggrieved when a neighbor walks across our land. We feel that it...
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True Tales from Canton’s Past: The Tragic Trio
The wreckage of the Piper Cherokee as it was found that night near the Canton/Stoughton line (Canton Historical Society) The weather in the Bahamas is quite beautiful this time of year, and for the...
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True Tales from Canton’s Past: Cooking With Gas
A group of men from the Canton Board of Trade at an outing in 1916 (Courtesy of the Canton Historical Society) The trustees of the Canton Public Library are in the midst of developing a strategic plan...
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True Tales: Remembering the Civil War
Company A, the Canton men who were the first to leave Massachusetts in the Civil War, shown here at a reunion on September 17, 1898. (Photo by J.W. Wattles, Courtesy of the Canton Historical Society)...
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True Tales from Canton’s Past: Mrs. Brown’s Hotel
In the 1870s, Mrs. Brown’s House was the center of the celebrity world in Canton. With a handsome mansard roof situated along a beautiful street lined with ancient elm trees, this was Canton’s grand...
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True Tales: Treason and Revolution
On an August night in 1776, long shadows cast across the room as Samuel Dunbar sat in his study contemplating what he was about to do. The die had already been cast, yet he would find in his voice the...
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True Tales from Canton’s Past: We Are All Citizens
The interior of the Canton Historical Society where the author spends quite a bit of his time The following is an excerpt from “We Are All Citizens,” the latest installment of True Tales from Canton’s...
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True Tales from Canton’s Past: The Water Works
Selectmen and water engineers pose at the Town Well in 1888. It was one of the largest town meetings in anyone’s memory. Hundreds of men packed Memorial Hall in April 1884. The topic at hand was the...
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True Tales from Canton’s Past: Military Portraits
They were the daughters, the brothers, the parents, and the soldiers themselves. They came to share their stories. Some neighbors shared heroic tales, and others told of sadness and loss. And in the...
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True Tales: Waterwheels
A view circa 1880 of the falls that drop through the Revere & Sons Rolling Mill (Courtesy of the Canton Historical Society) The following is an excerpt from “Waterwheels,” the latest installment of...
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True Tales Excerpt: Hiram’s Notes
The following is an excerpt from “Hiram’s Notes,” the latest installment of True Tales from Canton’s Past by local historian George T. Comeau. It is indeed curious to look upon seemingly random...
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True Tales from Canton’s Past: Honor Village
Emblazoned on the back of the Ford truck rattling through Canton Center is a bumper sticker that reads “Support Our Troops.” And in Canton, we are most fortunate to have a veterans agent who has worked...
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True Tales from Canton’s Past: Teacups in the Attic
For anyone who has ever watched Antiques Roadshow, they know that provenance is key to the value of antiques. The dusty old box of china in the attic is just fodder for a yard sale until it can be...
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True Tales from Canton’s Past: Lineage
At the age of 54, Thomas Gibson slipped quietly away from this world on May 6, 1899. The end came at Boston City Hospital, and after a life of pain and sorrow, the hurting stopped. The details of...
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Canton’s True Tales: The Sleighing is Capital
Charles Sumner lived at 179 Chapman Street and is shown standing beside his sleigh in 1914. (Collection of the Canton Historical Society) The following is an excerpt from “The Sleighing is Capital,”...
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True Tales from Canton’s Past: Alms for the Poor
The following is an excerpt from “Alms for the Poor,” the latest installment of True Tales from Canton’s Past by local historian George T. Comeau. Emeline Crane was born in Canton in 1829; by the time...
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True Tales from Canton’s Past: Moon Goddess
The only photo that shows the fountain that stood at Washington and Neponset. (Courtesy of the Canton Historical Society) The following is an excerpt from “Moon Goddess,” the latest installment of True...
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True Tales from Canton’s Past: Coming to Canton
Ms. Julia Crowley taught at the one-room schoolhouse on York Street and is shown with a class of young students circa 1900. (Courtesy of the Canton Historical Society) The following is an excerpt from...
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True Tales from Canton’s Past: Gridley’s Portrait
Wreath laying in 1976 at Gridley’s Monument in Canton Corner Cemetery (Courtesy of the Canton Historical Society) David Ingram spent much of his life researching Colonel Richard Gridley. And as far as...
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Secrets of the Viaduct
Today the Canton Viaduct remains Canton’s most impressive National Historic Site. (Photo by George T. Comeau) The following is an excerpt from “Secrets of the Viaduct,” the latest installment of True...
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