Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
2016. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
From the record
“Town Library. - This town has the honor of establishing the first free public library in Massachusetts. D., president of Brown University, for whom the town was named, proposed to give 3500 to his namesake, on condition that the town should appropriate an equal sum, the whole to be expended in founding a library, which should be free for the use and benefit of all the inhabitants.”
History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts (1880). Machine-read text.
one of 1100 National Register listings in Middlesex County · listed in 2016 · category: Building · one of 3 National Historic Landmarks in Middlesex County.
In 1841 the Wayland Academy, a private institution, was opened, with Rev. Leonard P. Frost, principal ; Josiali Rutter, A. B., teacher of ancient languages ; Miss Aima P. Frost, preceptress ; Lewis Smith, teacher of vocal music ; F. F. Heard, teacher of instrumental music. Number of pupils in the fall term : girls, thirty-six ; boys, seventy-one; total, one hundred and seven.
Edward Mellen (B. U. 1823), from 1830 to his death. May 31, 1875. Esquire Mellen was born at Westborough, September 26, 1802, and came to Wayland, November, 1S30. As a man he was distinguished for his geniality and public spirit. He took a leading interest in the public schools of the town, and in the public library. As a lawyer ' he was distinguished for his thorough knowledge - of the principles of law, and familiarity with the decisions of the courts. In 1847 he was made justice of the court of common pleas, and in 1855 was raised to the oifice of chief justice of the same court. In 1854 he received from his Alma Mater the degree of LL. D. After retiring from the judgeship he opened an office in Worcester, but retained his home in Wayland.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Reeves Tavern between
1995 and 2020, burning about 51 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 were recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Debris and open burning
35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
33
Recreation and ceremony
11
Arson/incendiarism
7
Power generation/transmission/distribution
5
Smoking
4
Railroad operations and maintenance
3
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Natural
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 1,644 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Reeves Tavern between 1898 and
1975: 1,073 Animalia, 312 Plantae, 244 Fungi, 8 Chromista, 6 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. B. Seymour & M. D. Feigley, A. E. Feldman and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
13 workings within 5 miles of Reeves Tavern: 10 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Peat. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Wayland, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain, 1 hail.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
Two to four inches of rain fell in the matter of a few hours on the evening of October 21 and resulted in significant urban flash flooding in Wayland. Many roads were flooded and impassable including parts of Routes 20, 27, 30, and 126, East Plain and School Streets, and Windy Hill Lane near Country Club and Storm Bridge Road. Old Connecticut Path near Wayland High School was flooded with water reaching the tops of car tires. A car was stuck in flood waters at the intersection of Pequot Road and Happy Hollow Road. No injuries were reported.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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