Historic Somerville
Preserving the Past for Our Future
Historic Somerville Inc.
9 Knowlton St.
Somerville, MA 02145
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- Mission
- About Us
- Online Membership Renewal
- Lecture and Event Tickets
- HS Spring 2020 Lectures and Events
- Pictures and Past Events
- HS Fall 2019 Lectures and Events
- Ghosts of Somerville 2019 Photos
- Henry Hansen and the Battle of Iwo Jim by Dan Breen
- Veterans Day Commemorative Event 2019
- Winter Holiday Party 2019
- HS SPRING 2019 LECTURES
- JANUARY 3RD & 5TH, 2019: Byron DeLear
- 243rd flag raising 2019
- Lt. Col Enoch Woodhouse
- 2019 Revere and our Colonial Fair
- May Preservation Month Activities
- May 12th_East Somerville_s Tucked Away Architectural Treasures
- May 23rd_Conservation Project Talk and Tour of the Milk Row Cemetery
- June 9th_Interpreting the Past for the Present. The Evolution of Boston’s Copp’s Hill Burying Ground
- Prospect Hill Tower, Milk Row Cemetery and Powder House 2019 Tour Schedules
- Winter Holiday Party-2018
- Fall 2018 Events and Lectures
- Cresap's Rifles
- Docent Tours Summer-Fall 2018
- Ghosts of Somerville 2018
- The Yankee Division in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive WWI
- Veterans Day Memorial Parade 2018
- Veterans Day 2018
- SUMMER 2018 EVENTS
- Ed Gordon: Top Ten Favorite Historic Residences in Somerville
- An Afternoon with Kevin Dua
- Spring 2018 Events
- 242nd Flag Raising
- Ghosts of Somerville
- Veterans Day 2017
- HS Lecture: The Yankee Division, Dan Breen
- Winter Holiday Party
- Docent Tours Fall 2017
- Spring 2017 Lecture Series and Events
- Bulfinch and the Barrell Mansion, Joseph Cornish
- Inventing the Charles River, Karl Haglund
- Revisiting the Flag at Prospect Hill - Byron DeLear
- Spring 2016 lectures
- The Jews of Somerville and greater Boston
- Milk Row Cemetery Tour
- The History of Somerville Lumber
- Fall 2015 Local History Lectures
- From Smyrna to Belleau Wood and the Second Battle of the Marne by Dr. Daniel Breen
- Charles Williams Jr.: Somerville's Connection to the First Telephone
- Somerville Past and Present: Images of a Century of Change by Jeff Myers
- Boston and the Civil War; Hub of the Second Revolution
- My Life in the First African-American Unit of the Air Force
- History of Agriculture in Somerville
- Art Glass of the Union Glass Co.
- Fall 2014 Events
- Friday, Dec. 12th, 7-9PM, Winter Holiday Party
- Tuesday, November 11th, 2:30PM, Veterans' Day Remembrance Ceremony
- Sunday, Nov. 9th, 2-4PM, talk by Prof. Dan Breen, The March to Laurel Hill in 1864
- Saturday, Oct.25th 3-5PM, Mr. Allen's Tidal Powered Rope Walk
- Thursday, Oct. 23, 5-6:30PM, Milk Row Cemetery Docent-led Tour
- Ghosts of Somerville 2014 pictures!
- Milk Row Cemetery Docent Led Tours
- Mystic River Roundtable with Richard Beinecke
- Defiance of the Patriots lecture
- 2013 Holiday Wreath Donations
- The Spirit of Somerville: Booksigning by Eugene Brune
- Struggles Unceasing: The POW Experience of the Somerville Guard in the Civil War
- Ghosts of Somerville 2013
- For Better or Worse: 19th C. Tales Along the Middlesex and Washington, D.C. Canals
- The Better Homes Movement in Somerville, 1922-1930
- Workshop: Repair Historic Windows
- The Somerville I Didn't Know: The Influence of Africans, West-Indians and African Americans on Somerville, 1630-1860.
- May is Preservation Month - Events 2013
- The Mystic River: March 24th Lecture
- Raising the Roof and More
- First Flag - January 1st, 2013
- The Struggles of the 39th Massachusetts Volunteers
- Somerville: Haven for Ingenious Minds
- Militia versus Regulars in America's War of Independence
- The Menace of the Three Decker
- Patriots Day 2012
- Lafayette in Somerville (Charlestown Beyond the Neck) 1824-25
- 236th Raising of the Grand Union Flag 2012
- April 18th, 2011 Patriots Day Colonial Fair at Foss Park
- 2010: Paul Revere and Colonial Fair in Somerville's Foss Park
- Ghosts of Somerville Open Cemetery Tour 2010
- Ghosts of Somerville 2009
- Ghost of Somerville 2006-08
- Alan Hoffman Lecture on General Lafayettes Tour of America 1824-25
- Reenactments
- Costumes for 1776
- The Civil War Monument
- Donate
- Preservation
- 2018-19 Help Keep Somerville History Alive! Advocacy Opportunities
- Links Related to Somerville and History
SPRING 2018 HISTORIC SOMERVILLE
EVENTS AND LECTURES
Sunday, February 25th, 3:00PM at the Center for the Arts and the Armory
An Afternoon with Kevin Dua, 2017 Massachusetts History Teacher of the Year
with the support of MassHumanities.
Monday, April 16th, 10:00AM-12:00PM
Come wait for Paul Revere to ride by on horseback and join the Colonial Fair at Foss Park
Sunday, March 4th, 11:40AM step off from City Hall; noon gathering at Prospect Hill, 242nd Flag Raising at Prospect Hill.
Historic Somerville Inc.
9 Knowlton St.
Somerville, MA 02145
eschofie