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2024 Westford Historic House Tour – Purchase your ticket(s) here

Westford Museum & Historical Society andFirst Parish Church United of Westford present: 2nd Westford Historic House Tour Saturday September 28, 2024 A wonderful opportunity to tour a collection of stunning vintage homes … Read more »


Geoff Hall’s Westford Tales

Geoff Hall continues to capture stories of members from the Westford community. Westford Tales, focusing on residents’ memories of Westford throughout the years. Geoffrey D. Hall is a third generation Westfordite. … Read more »


Bob Oliphant’s Weekly Westford Wardsman Podcasts

Listen as Bob Oliphant shares the weekly Westford news plus bonus information of Westford and our residents from over 100 year’s ago. The Westford Wardsman was published weekly as part … Read more »


Featured Artifact of the Week

Photograph From the collection From the collection From the collection Photograph (albumen print) taken prior to 1868, making this one of the oldest dated photographs in the collection. First developed … Read more »


Rita E. Miller (1918-2003)

A teacher’s influence can never be erased By James Van Bever     When Rita E. Miller retired from the Westford school system in 1983, a banner was hung outside the Frost … Read more »


An Obituary of a House, 4 Hildreth Street

  Westford said a sad farewell on February 12, 2024, when the house at 4 Hildreth Street, having gone through the demolition delay process, was demolished. The earliest information we … Read more »


Featured Artifact of the Week

Print From the collection From the collection From the collection Laser print of the Sherman Dewey Fletcher house at 33 Main St. in 1899. Capt. Sherman Heywood Fletcher (1846-1928) of Troop … Read more »


Featured Artifact of the Week

Photograph From the collection From the collection From the collection 1899 black and white photograph of the house at 55 Brookside Rd. If features Charles Smith Edwards (with horse) in … Read more »


Featured Artifact of the Week

Site Plan From the Collection From the Collection From the Collection One of 12 surveyor plans of 62 Main St, the Donald Cameron House. They were made by Caroline M. … Read more »


Memorial Windows of Westford – Mr. and Mrs. John Healy, Sanctuary Rose Window, St. Catherine’s Church, Westford

This month we are featuring the  Sanctuary Rose window of St. Catherine’s Church. The Sanctuary Window was a gift of Mr. and Mrs. John A Healy. This window was once … Read more »


Featured Artifact of the Week

Wood Sign From the Medical Exhibit From the Medical Exhibit From the Medical Exhibit White painted wood sign, 60″ x 28″, with black paint for text, of the Westford Osteopathic … Read more »


Phyllis Wright (1917-1998)

“Westford’s first Apple Blossom Queen” By James VanBever (November 2020) On May 20, 1935, Reverend John Day of the Westford Unitarian church and originator of the Apple Blossom Festival introduced … Read more »


Lucinda Everlyn Prescott (1888-1976)

Lucinda (Cindy) was the daughter of Ebenezer of Josephine (Webster) Prescott and lived on the Prescott family farm at 180 Main Street, Chamberlain Corner, all of her life with her … Read more »


Eva Mae Lord (1889 – 1960)

“Mae Lord became the nurse at the Abbot Worsted Company, a position that she held for the rest of her life.  She played a big part in the health of … Read more »


Noella “Pinky” Leduc (1933-2014)

   Noella Leduc was born on River Street in Graniteville on December 23, 1933. Her house on River Street is directly across from the Graniteville ball field. It was at … Read more »