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One of the Metz bicycle racers was Harry Elks. Using an Orient bicycle, with a “pacer”* to break the wind, he traveled the mile in one minute and 30 seconds….

There were two Colonels from Waltham at the Battle of Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775. Colonel Thomas Gardner led a regiment which included the company from Waltham and one…

WALTHAM – A Waltham native will be part of a history-making flyover at the Super Bowl. Lt. Jacqueline Drew, a pilot, will support the flyover conducted by an all-women crew…

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…