Author: Waltham

J. C. Penny’s at the corner of Moody and Pine Street. How about the strange way you paid for an item. Penny’s used the “Lamson Cash Railway.” The purpose of…

The Daily Free Press, April 21, 1890, announced that the Board of Alderman had approved plans submitted by Hartwell & Richardson for a new police station. To be “handsome and…

John R. Farnum was born in Mount Vernon, New Hampshire on May 12, 1823. He was of six children. Later his family moved to Newton where he bought a horse…

General N. P. Banks house was built in 1798. On November 16, 1830, the Boston Manufacturing Company presented the library, owned by them, to the town of Waltham which was…

World War l Honor List 2,134 In 1847, the present Moody Street dam was built: previous to this time, it was a wooden dam which was built about 1813. Rumford…

Since our last meeting, I have gathered together a little data which may be of interest to some of you members who have not always lived in Waltham. Waltham was…

His name is not well known in Waltham, but it should be. It certainly is well known elsewhere around the world. Like many of Waltham’s Breezers, his journey also began…

….The Waltham Gas and Light Company started operating on Pine Street in 1854. Their first customer was the cotton mill across the river. For the remainder of the 19th Century,…