Recent Public Queries & Research Presentations

Public Queries, sorted by date

2/9/2022 66 Chestnut Street, Borgh and Janes House

2/10/2022 Seacraft Sports Shop

3/3/2022 126 and 136 Middlesex Ave

3/21/2022 Eldad Butters and the Town Farm*

3/23/2022 Jesse Hopkins*

4/2022 Flagstaff on the Common*

4/19/2022 94 West Street

4/25/2022 Buzzell School

4/28/2022 Benjamin Foster Farm (Hall/Rooney)

5/4/2022 Perry's Corner

5/13/2022 20 Harnden St, "The Elms"

5/13/2022 Historic Homes Preservation, with National Registry of Historic Places

5/16/2022 Sanford Adams and the Pump Factory*

6/2/2022 Wilmington's Memorialized Trees (Baldwin Apple, Whitefield Elm)

6/15/2022 Powderhouse*

6/15/2022 Olde Burying Ground*

8/2/2022 Telephone Exchanges and Carriage Manufacturers*

8/29/2022 Edward M Preble and 236 Chestnut St

8/31/2022 James Weld Towne, Cynthia Gowing, and Rebecca Eames*

9/9/2022 Health in Public Schools (Water Crisis!)*

9/14/2022 Wilmington Library Ledgers*

10/15/2022 Warren Eames*

10/31/2022 Marion Street/Butters Row*

11/3/2022 Native Americans in Wilmington Area*

11/10/2022 Meat and Animal raising in Wilmington*

11/18/2022 Town Halls of Wilmington and its Neighbors*

11/28/2022 Cocoanut Grove Fire of 1942*

11/29/2022 Frank Waldo Perry and Caleb Harriman, of the Tannery*

12/3/2022 Care of the Poor and Needy and Wilmington Almshouse*

1/3/2023 Harnden Family Genealogy Check

1/10/2023 Adult Education and Culture

2/7/2023 Town Doctors*

3/13/2023 Moved Houses, primarily due to I-93 arrival

4/8/2023 Thurston Avenue*

4/10/2023 Dr. Levi Gould Patient Ledger*

5/8/2023 13 Boutwell Street*

5/26/2023 Are we related? How to use FamilySearch to trace relationships.

6/19/2023 Wilmington's Town Clock

8/13/2023 Abner and Hannah Bailey, 123 Chestnut Street*

8/16/2023 James Thompson, Rich Carter, 2 Main Street

8/23/2023 Will Butter/Ebenezer Carter/Solon Johnson 181 Chestnut Street*

2/17/2024 People of Color in Wilmington

3/25/2024 100 West, Thomas P Eames House

4/1/2024 Wilmington Minutemen on Patriot's Day

4/29/2024 Liberty Pole and Phrygian Cap

9/17/2024 The Melodeon at the Museum

11/22/2024 Richard Hopkins House, 203 Aldrich Road

12/27/2024 Timothy D Bond House (The Rectory)

1/5/2025 Mehetabel Spaulding, Pillow Sham Sampler

1/17/2025 Woburn's Great Lots, Spanning from Nod to Goshen along Billerica Line

2/5/2025 Environmental Conservation, Cedars of Lebanon

5/25/2025 Book Store Next Door, 183 Middlesex Ave, by Joseph A Jackson

*Topics instigated by Historic Commission Members

Community Research Presentations

06/17/2019 Terry McDermott to Public Library Patrons: Remembering Silver Lake with the People who were There

09/24/2020 Vincent Carretta to Wilmington Memorial Library, Phillis Wheatley, "A Wonder of the Age Indeed"

9/13/2021 To Wilmington Historical Commission: Launch of Wilmington Historical Maps Project

4/16/2022 To Essex Society of Genealogists: Building Community Genealogies from Historical Maps: The Wilmington Maps Project

9/22/2022 To Wilmington Public Library Patrons:  Wilmington's One-Room Schoolhouses

10/27/2022 To Wilmington Public Library Patrons: Wilmington Agriculture: Hops, Cranberries, and Other Cash Crops

12/17/2022 To Essex Society of Genealogists: Almshouses and Town Farms (applied presentation based upon studies of Wilmington's Town Farm)

9/14/2023 To Wilmington Public Library Patrons: Perry's Corner: History of the Site, recording by Jamie Boudreau

9/16/2023 To Essex Society of Genealogists: Lyceums and Chautauquas: Bringing Education and Improvement to the People

Research Summary Reports (JJackson to Wilmington Historical Commission)

1. 3/14/2022, Early Residents of Wilmington, MA

2. 4/11/2022, Investigating Schools from Annual Reports of the School Committee, and Histories Website progress

3. 5/9/2022, Public Affairs visits: Library, WCTV

4. 6/13/2022, Commission Research Site, Maps Project, Cemetery Maps Project

5. 9/12/2022, Bond Collection, Fall Pesentations, Public Queries, Schools Facebook Posts

6. 10/17/2022, Historic Aerials, Library Facts, Schoolhouse Study Completed

7. 11/14/2022, Agriculture, Meat Industry, Native Americans, Marion Street, Bond Collection

8. 12/5/2022, Town Halls, Butchers, Tannery

9. 1/9/2023, Almshouse and Town Farm, Essex County Almshouses

10. 2/13/2023, Physicians of Wilmington

11. 3/13/2023, Moving Houses, Dr. Levi Gould

12. 4/10/2023, Levi Gould MD, Thurston Ave

13. 5/8/2023, 13 Boutwell, "How to Deep Dive"

14. 9/11/2023, Perry's Corner Prep, Baileys and Butters along Chestnut, Town Clock

15. 2/12/2024, People of Color in Wilmington- but Phillis Wheatley Peters was not one of them!

16. 2/10/2024, Demolition Delay, Conservation