Framingham Local History Walking Tour

This is a walking tour for students in the Framingham State University Elementary Education Program on using local history to teach history for justice.

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Framingham Local History Walking Tour

Framingham, Massachusetts 01701, United States

Created By: University of Massachusetts Boston

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This is a walking tour for students in the Framingham State University Elementary Education Program on using local history to teach for justice. We also welcome K-12 students or members of the public to also use this to learn more about Framingham's history.


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You are standing at Indian Head Heights. This was one of several Nipmuc towns in what would become Framingham. The Nipmuc people are the first people of the greater Metrowest area and much of central Massachusetts and northern Connecticut. ... Read more
You are standing at the Centre Common, also know as the Village Green, for what was the Town of Framingham. This is unceded Nipmuc land. Unceded means that the Indigeneous people of the area never legally signed away the rights to these la... Read more
You are standing in Framingham's Old Burying Ground, also known as Church Hill Cemetery. When you enter from the Main Street center gate proceed strait to the back side of the cemetery and locate the grave of Peter Salem (it is a solitary h... Read more
You are standing in front of May Hall, which is near the site of the first building of the State Normal School at Framingham. In 1837, Horace Mann became the first secretary of the newly created Massachusetts Board of Education. During this... Read more
You are standing near the beginning of Salem End Road also known as the Salem's End of Danforth's Farm. This road is named for the fact that it is where Sarah Clayes, one of the young women accused of witchcraft in Salem, found refuge (for ... Read more
You are standing at the site of the so-called Eames Massacre. In the 1630s, the Massachusetts Bay Colony began to expand westward into Nipmuc, Narragansett, Pocumtuk, Mohegan, and Pequot lands. As a young man, Thomas Eames participated in t... Read more
You are now standing at a historical marker dedicated to Thomas Eames, that was put here by the Massachusetts Bay Tercentenary Commission celebrating the 300th anniversary of the establishment of the settler colony. What is the historical n... Read more
You are now standing on the edge of Farm Pond, which was called Washakamaug (“eel fishing place”) by the Nipmuc people. Take a moment to look across the pond and reflect on what this place would have been like before English settlers ar... Read more

 

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