Acton Historical Society Blog: Acton In The City

Press release from the Acton Historical Society:

8/20/2021

See the collection here One picture was of a float in a parade.  Zooming in on the details shows a street sign on a building indicating that it was taken on Lexington Street in East Boston.  Though East Boston had a number of parades, big ones were held on the 4th of July.  The subject of the picture is a float with men in patriotic uniforms holding oars.  It is likely that it was the tableau of Washington Crossing the Delaware that was mentioned in a July 2, 1895 Boston Post article (p. 2) as a feature of the upcoming parade.  The participants were listed; we had hoped that the participants on the float were Acton men or relatives, but the names were not familiar.  The sponsor of the float was Jewett Lumber.  Boston Post photo of the deck of the SS Yarmouth contact us

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