Stories from Acton

The Acton Agricultural Association used various strategies to advertise its annual fair.

Learning which Acton residents were at Concord's North Bridge on April 19, 1775 is helped by a list written by a militia captain of Acton's East company.

See a sign-up sheet of Acton's East militia company as of Sept. 29, 1774 under Capt. Robbins.

Online 1855 census indices have missed a page of Acton residents, available here.

A souvenir from the stagecoach era led to research into travel before the railroad arrived.

F. W. Pelton ran a private high school in Acton in 1852 and put on quite a show of students' work.

A document at the Acton Historical Society reveals that two prisoners of war were in town during the Revolution.