Publications
Text of the presentation shared on May 22, 2022 at The First Church of Christ in Longmeadow, MA sharing the names and stories of sixteen enslaved people known to have been either owned by Rev. Stephen Williams (1693-1782) or baptized into First Church. Includes the names and details of the lives of Nicholas, James, Phillis, Scorpio, Stamford, Tobias, Saunders, Jenny, Tom, Cato, Joseph, Caesar, Zickery, and three different men named Peter. Click here to access.
#TBT
These 170 different #Longmeadow #TBTs (Throw Back Thursday) were created by Judy and Jim Moran using early 20th-century photos from our Emerson collection as well as other photos in the Longmeadow Historical Society archives. 1894, 1912, and 1920 maps of Longmeadow help provide accurate location information for each TBT.
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Each week these TBTs were posted on our Facebook page as well as published in the Longmeadow News.
You may view all of the TBTs here.
Books
Over the years, the Longmeadow Historical Society has published books on the history of Longmeadow. Digital copies of these books can be found here,
The Town Crier was the newsletter printed by the Longmeadow Historical Society. Today, our newsletters are sent digitally in the form of our History Notes blog. This area here contains a selection of popular Town Crier articles from years past. Further research on some of these topics has been done in subsequent years. Search History Notes if a topic interests you to see what we've learned since!
