Wayland Museum - Wayland Historical Society

06/16/2026

Art meets history this Sunday. Join us for the opening of "Echoes of Liberty" from 12-4pm. This was a juried exhibition in partnership with our friends at Arts Wayland. Free and open to all, come celebrate with us.

06/07/2026

Today's the day! 🌈 Join us at 2pm for an afternoon talk with Tilly Laskey on her book Precious and Adored: The Love Letters of Rose Cleveland and Evangeline Simpson Whipple, 1890–1918 — a remarkable love story hidden in plain sight for over a century.

Rose Cleveland (sister of President Grover Cleveland) and Evangeline Simpson Whipple, a one-time Dudley Pond area Wayland resident, exchanged passionate letters for decades before finally making a life together in Italy. Their story is a moving window into LGBTQ history.
📅 Today, Sunday, June 7
🕑 2–3 PM
📍 12 Cochituate Road, Town of Wayland

Dudley Pond Association Waylandpost

05/30/2026

We are excited for the Wayland Rev250 Splash and Dash this morning! You can register on site! Come celebrate Rev250 and have fun!

05/27/2026

The Wayland Museum & Historical Society will host its 2026 Annual Meeting tonight, May 27.
Following our brief Annual Meeting (7:00 PM – 7:30 PM) dedicated to our organization's year-in-review and votes by members of the WHS, we invite members and the community to join us for an evening with Marilynne Roach at 7:30 pm. Marilynne will give a presentation, called “Samuel Parris: Villain or Victim?”

05/25/2026

Wayland has been honoring its veterans for a long time. These photos come from our Town Crier collection. However you're marking the day, thank you for remembering 🇺🇸 Happy Memorial Day from the Wayland Museum & Historical Society. 🇺🇸

Do you recognize someone in these photos? Have a memory of a Wayland Memorial Day parade? We'd love to hear it in the comments.

Town of Wayland

05/22/2026

Flashback Friday to this Wallace Herbert Folsom photograph of installing the hydrants in Town of Wayland, Wayland DPW. Did you know in celebration of America250 you can use your creativity to work make some public art on a Wayland fire hydrant! Individuals, families, groups, and organizations can register to paint a fire hydrant (or more than one) to celebrate America's 250th anniversary. Paint kits are available, or use your own. Details: https://www.wayland.ma.us/296/Paint-a-Fire-Hydrant

05/21/2026

Congratulations to our friends Russell's Garden Center as they celebrate their big 150! 🌱 We're lucky to hold some remarkable Russell family records in our archives — including freight receipts from the 1890s showing S. Russell receiving shipments, we also hold sales slips going back to 1888, and photographs of the original Samuel Russell Provisions store, established 1876.

We also hold a quilt made by members of the Ladies Benevolent Association of Wayland's TCC Wayland — signed squares include both Sarah I. Russell and a Mary Anna Russell, wife of Samuel Russell himself.

🌱 Wayland's lucky to have them.🌳

05/18/2026

Celebrate Town of Wayland's Rev250 and America250 birthday with this fun, all-ages community Wayland Rev250 Splash and Dash! Join us on Saturday, May 30, 2026, 8:30 A.M.

Race options:
🏊‍♀️ Kids (12 & Under): 100 yd swim + ½ mile run
🏃 Teen/Adult (13+): 250 yd swim + 2 mile run

05/13/2026

Free and open to the public — tonight: "Forgotten Fighters: Chinese Soldiers in the Civil War" — a presentation with Anneliese Meck. Co-presented with Wayland Chinese American Association, Town of WaylandHRDEIC, and Wayland Rev250. Free and open to all. Details: https://forgottenfighters.eventbrite.com

Discover the untold stories of Chinese soldiers who fought bravely in the Civil War—join us in person!