Decorative drawing: a busy small-town main street. Not a photograph of this place.

Needham Town (part 12 of 12)

Part 12 of 12 of the account of this town in History of Needham, Massachusetts, 1711-1911;, published 1912. 182 words, covering 6 settlements. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.

Parts

12 pages

The source prints this as one continuous account. It is split here so no single page grows too heavy to load; the text runs straight on across the parts and nothing is omitted.

The chapter

182 words

Reproduced complete and unedited from History of Needham, Massachusetts, 1711-1911;, published 1912. The text is machine-read from scans, so expect recognition errors: misspelled names, dropped words, and stray characters. Nothing has been corrected, because correcting a proper name invents one. The headings below are the books' own; source changes are labelled in place.

T CE-PONDS, 395 A Ide, Rev. Jacob, 272, 273 Illinois Volunteers, 509, 510 Imperial and Colonial Veterans, 441 Improved Order of Redmen, 592 Improvement societies, 596, 597

Ministers' names. First Church, 220, 234, 237, 239-243. Congregational Church in West Needham, 246, 247. First Baptist Church, 255, 256. Methodist Episcopal Church of Highlandville, 269, 270. Orthodox Congregational Church in Grantville, 280. Evangelical Congregational Church, 191-293. Christ Church, 303

Orders and Societies, 589-614. Masonic, 859. Norfolk Lodge 589, 590. Odd Fellows, 591. Other Societies and Orders, 591-593. Ladies' Charitable Socitey, 593. Needham Women's Suffrage League, S93> 594- Needham Nationalist Club, 594. Social and Literary Union, 594, 595. Young Men's Christian Association of Highlandville, 595, 596. Needham improvement societies, 596, 597. Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle, 597. Tea and Toast Club, 597, 691. Monday Club, 597, 598. Unitarian Club, 598. New Century Club, 599. Albion Cricket Club, 599, 600. Organizations for amusement, 600. Temperance and temperance societies, 601-

Newton, Needham and Natick Society for apprehending Horse Thieves, 608, 609. NeedhamYoung People's Association, 609. Agricultural and kindred societies, 609- 612. Needham Farmers and Mechanics Association, 612

Provenance

Text from History of Needham, Massachusetts, 1711-1911;, published 1912, in the public domain in the United States and digitised by the Internet Archive. The settlements listed against this township are matched by point-in-polygon test of each Geographic Names Information System coordinate against the Census Bureau's county subdivision boundary, not by name.