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Wayland Celebrates: 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage

August 26, 2020 Celebration At 9:30 AM at North Cemetery, a group gathered at the gravestone of Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) to honor her advocacy for gender and racial equality, note newly registered Wayland women voters of the era, and to enjoy a display about...

Open House 2019

We joined the Library, First Parish in Wayland, the Wayland Depot and the W Gallery for our annual Wayland Center Open House. The Grout-Heard House was at the center of activities that included music, activities for kids, caroling, refreshments, and inventive seasonal...

Rails to Trails

Wayland Historical Society - Rails to Trails Presentation Rails to Trails in Wayland Exhibit Fall 2019Click on the image above to view the presentation Wayland's Master Plan Wayland Railroad Interpretive Site Master Plan 2005Click on the image above for a copy of the...

“Two Sudburys” Tour

Sunday, October 6, 2019 – Members from the Wayland Museum & Historical Society and the Sudbury Historical Society led a bus tour of “colonial-era Sudbury”, later known as Sudbury and East Sudbury, before becoming today’s  Sudbury and Wayland. Tour...

Petitions

by Jane SciaccaSusanna Grout and her daughter Susan, who lived in today’s Grout-Heard House Museum, were two signers of a women’s petition to the US House of Representatives in 1837 decrying the “sinfulness of slavery.” They joined with 47 other Wayland women...

Old Post Road Concert

Musicians of the Old Post Road: Mozart’s Viennese Circle Friday March 15 ~ 7:30 PMFirst Parish (Church) Wayland To attend an Old Post Road concert is to be transported back in time while seated in the pews of the beautiful First Parish (church) in Wayland. Come...

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