Foxborough Historical Society

Foxborough Historical Society The official page of the Foxborough Historical Society. We meet the 4th Tuesaday September - November & March - May. The public is welcome!

The Foxborough Historical Society meets every month September through November and January through May. Our meetings are the 4th Tuesday of the month and will be held at the newly renovated Boyden Library. Each month we have a featured speaker or author who speaks on a particular topic or about his or her latest book. We have even had famous historical figures speak at our meetings such as Eleanor

Roosevelt and Mark Twain! Our treasured town historian Jack Authelet opens and closes each season with must see and learn topics about our wonderful town which is rich in history. Our monthly programs are free and open to the public. We hope you will join us in September for our next meeting as we open the 2015-2016 season!

Join us tomorrow night as we wrap up the first half of our 2025 - 2026 season with author John Roman!John Roman, author ...
11/24/2025

Join us tomorrow night as we wrap up the first half of our 2025 - 2026 season with author John Roman!

John Roman, author of The Art of Illustrated Maps will discuss the popular historic town/city views of panoramic maps of the 1800s...with particular attention on O.H. Bailey & J. C. Hazen 1879 perspective view of Foxborough, Mass. The evolution and process of the 19th-century’s bird’s-eye-view industry will be explored, as will Bailey and Hazen’s partnership as view makers, cartographers, landscape artists and lithographers.

John Roman is an illustrator specializing in the visual translation of complex information with illustrated maps, architectural and technical drawings. John is a graduate of The New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk University.

7pm in the McGinty Room at the Public Safety building, 8 Chestnut Street.

All are welcome!

Join us next Tuesday night, November 25th, as we wrap up the first half of our 2025 - 2026 season with author John Roman...
11/18/2025

Join us next Tuesday night, November 25th, as we wrap up the first half of our 2025 - 2026 season with author John Roman!

John Roman, author of The Art of Illustrated Maps will discuss the popular historic town/city views of panoramic maps of the 1800s...with particular attention on O.H. Bailey & J. C. Hazen 1879 perspective view of Foxborough, Mass. The evolution and process of the 19th-century’s bird’s-eye-view industry will be explored, as will Bailey and Hazen’s partnership as view makers, cartographers, landscape artists and lithographers.

John Roman is an illustrator specializing in the visual translation of complex information with illustrated maps, architectural and technical drawings. John is a graduate of The New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk University.

7pm in the McGinty Room at the Public Safety building, 8 Chestnut Street.

All are welcome!

We are a couple of hours away from our October meeting when Paolo DiGregorio joins us to present: New England Food and D...
10/28/2025

We are a couple of hours away from our October meeting when Paolo DiGregorio joins us to present: New England Food and Drink: Eating & Drinking in Colonial New England.

In the early colonial period there was a limited amount of food choices for New Englanders. However the native Americans who had lived in New England for millennia before the English arrival, had developed their own dietary customs by cultivating and harvesting local crops along with hunting game and fishing. The Native Americans had preferred ways to prepare, cook and serve these dietary staples. After the first winter in Plymouth, about half the Pilgrims who crossed over on the Mayflower, perished from starvation. Thanks to a couple Wampanoag natives who spoke English, the Pilgrims were befriended and taught how to grow local crops and feed themselves. Corn, beans, and squash now became the diet staples of the New England colonists. As time went along, the influx of trade with Europe and the Caribbean added to the diet choices of New Englanders.

Paolo the “Artifactual Scholar” is an associate professor of history at Bridgewater State University, and has been spinning out little known gems of American and world history since 2014.

Join us tonight at 7pm in the McGinty Room at the Public Safety Building, 8 Chestnut Street. All are welcome!

Join us tomorrow night at 7pm for our October meeting when Paolo DiGregorio joins us to present: New England Food and Dr...
10/27/2025

Join us tomorrow night at 7pm for our October meeting when Paolo DiGregorio joins us to present: New England Food and Drink: Eating & Drinking in Colonial New England.

In the early colonial period there was a limited amount of food choices for New Englanders. However the native Americans who had lived in New England for millennia before the English arrival, had developed their own dietary customs by cultivating and harvesting local crops along with hunting game and fishing. The Native Americans had preferred ways to prepare, cook and serve these dietary staples. After the first winter in Plymouth, about half the Pilgrims who crossed over on the Mayflower, perished from starvation. Thanks to a couple Wampanoag natives who spoke English, the Pilgrims were befriended and taught how to grow local crops and feed themselves. Corn, beans, and squash now became the diet staples of the New England colonists. As time went along, the influx of trade with Europe and the Caribbean added to the diet choices of New Englanders.

Paolo the “Artifactual Scholar” is an associate professor of history at Bridgewater State University, and has been spinning out little known gems of American and world history since 2014.

Tuesday, October 28th at 7pm in the McGinty Room at the Public Safety Building, 8 Chestnut Street. All are welcome!

Join us on the 28th at 7pm for our October meeting when Paolo DiGregorio joins us to present: New England Food and Drink...
10/20/2025

Join us on the 28th at 7pm for our October meeting when Paolo DiGregorio joins us to present: New England Food and Drink: Eating & Drinking in Colonial New England.

In the early colonial period there was a limited amount of food choices for New Englanders. However the native Americans who had lived in New England for millennia before the English arrival, had developed their own dietary customs by cultivating and harvesting local crops along with hunting game and fishing. The Native Americans had preferred ways to prepare, cook and serve these dietary staples. After the first winter in Plymouth, about half the Pilgrims who crossed over on the Mayflower, perished from starvation. Thanks to a couple Wampanoag natives who spoke English, the Pilgrims were befriended and taught how to grow local crops and feed themselves. Corn, beans, and squash now became the diet staples of the New England colonists. As time went along, the influx of trade with Europe and the Caribbean added to the diet choices of New Englanders.

Paolo the “Artifactual Scholar” is an associate professor of history at Bridgewater State University, and has been spinning out little known gems of American and world history since 2014.

Tuesday, October 28th at 7pm in the McGinty Room at the Public Safety Building, 8 Chestnut Street. All are welcome!

Join us tonight at 7pm for the start of the 2025 - 2026 season! The Cultural Construction of American MedicineProfessor ...
09/23/2025

Join us tonight at 7pm for the start of the 2025 - 2026 season!

The Cultural Construction of American Medicine

Professor Rob Lawson will discuss the history of medicine with a view of understanding differences of perspective. The gathering of medical knowledge and the practice of medicine were historically seen as positive pursuits in which authoritive figures made objective discoveries and applied them dispassionately to their patients. This mirrored the general beliefs about sciences in general. Increasingly, historians have come to understand that medicine as a socially-constructed human behavior is not purely objective in application or experience. This lecture will explore how the attitudes about, and outcomes of medicine have changed over time.

Dr. R. A. Lawson is an historian of American culture with wide-ranging interests in the arts, both performative and material. Dr. Lawson earned his Ph.D. in History at Vanderbilt University in 2003 after taking a bachelor’s degree from Louisiana State University.

Join is tonight at 7pm in the McGinty Room at the Public Safety building. All are welcome!

We are just a few hours away from the start of the 2025 - 2026 season! The Cultural Construction of American MedicinePro...
09/23/2025

We are just a few hours away from the start of the 2025 - 2026 season!

The Cultural Construction of American Medicine

Professor Rob Lawson will discuss the history of medicine with a view of understanding differences of perspective. The gathering of medical knowledge and the practice of medicine were historically seen as positive pursuits in which authoritive figures made objective discoveries and applied them dispassionately to their patients. This mirrored the general beliefs about sciences in general. Increasingly, historians have come to understand that medicine as a socially-constructed human behavior is not purely objective in application or experience. This lecture will explore how the attitudes about, and outcomes of medicine have changed over time.

Dr. R. A. Lawson is an historian of American culture with wide-ranging interests in the arts, both performative and material. Dr. Lawson earned his Ph.D. in History at Vanderbilt University in 2003 after taking a bachelor’s degree from Louisiana State University

Join is tonight at 7pm in the McGinty Room at the Public Safety building. All are welcome!

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