Looking for something different for a holiday gift? The SHSM is offering a few items from our Gift Shop that will celebrate our wonderful Stoneham…
In celebration of the Centennial of the 13th Amendment, popular historical actress Sheryl Faye will portray well known women’s rights activist Susan B. Anthony in…
Popular local historian Dee Morris, is presenting the “Suffragists of Stoneham” tonite on StonehamTV. The presentation celebrates 100 years of Women’s Right to Vote is…
Celebrating 100 years of women’s right to vote, the Stoneham Historical Society and Stoneham TV have partnered to tell the story of the long and…
For everyone’s well-being, we remain closed to the general public. We are still working remotely on collections and programming for the future. We will continue…
This is the property of Edward and Ida Wadsworth on Main St. and the corner of South St. He owned a poultry farm to sell…
After graduating from Oberlin College in 1847, Lucy Stone began lecturing for the abolitionist movement as a paid representative of the American Anti-Slavery Society. She…
In the 1870’s, many of the former abolitionists from Stoneham and surrounding towns who previously supported the 15th Amendment redirected their energy to Women’s Suffrage…
History will remember when the world stopped And the flight stay on the ground And the cars parked in the street And the trains didn’t…
As a pioneer in the Women’s Movement, Lucy Stone is known as the first woman to earn a college degree from Massachusetts. Born into…