I told him none, except vague talk about location, some favoring the stone mansion on County Street constructed by William R. He asked what steps had been taken in this direction. I added that, in my opinion, the society had reached a critical point in its history and that its continued efficiency and even its permanency depended upon its having a home of its own. I told him that the lease of the room occupied on Union Street expired at the close of the year that we had outgrown the premises, but had not been able to find suitable accommodations. I told him that its revenue was derived from the annual fee of one dollar paid by each of its five or six hundred members and that with this modest income we had paid for rent and the furnishings of the room necessary for the exhibit of our collections and the other incidental expenses of printing, postage and the like and that the society had no surplus, neither did it have a deficit. He inquired about the resources and needs of the society. He commended the purposes of the society and spoke of the earnestness of those who were actively engaged in its work. A day or two later he called at my office and expressed his gratification. The June, 1906, meeting of the Old Dartmouth Historical Society was held in the Town House at Fairhaven. President Wood then introduced William W. President Wood said that this community mourned his loss together with the community on the other side of the river. Rogers, who was a member of the board of directors. The cost of the tablets will be from $5 up, according to the length of the inscription.Īlluding to the death of Henry H. The secretary, he said, had volunteered to assist members desirous of contributing panels, by preparing inscriptions that could be etched in the brasses. The president also stated that the secretary of the society had had the inspiration of commemorating the early settlers of Old Dartmouth by setting brass tablets into the panels of the entrance to the main room, and that several of the members had already adopted the suggestion by installing tablets to commemorate ancestors. President Wood expressed the opinion that this was a very intelligent use of the society’s facilities in an educative way among the younger people of the city. He said that during the last few months Miss Watson had had all the higher grammar grades of the public schools, and the pupils of the local and Fairhaven High Schools, in the rooms, by classes, and given them afternoons of interesting amusement and study. President Edmund Wood, in his remarks at the opening of the meeting, paid a tribute to the work of the Education Section, in charge of Miss Watson. Proceedings of the Old Dartmouth Historical Society THE HOMESTEADS AT APPONEGANSETT BEFORE 1710 OLD DARTMOUTH HISTORICAL SKETCH Number 25īeing the proceedings of the Old Dartmouth Historical Society, held in their building, Water Street, New Bedford, Massachusetts, on 30 June, 1909.
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