3rd Grade Program

      

Each year 700 Framingham third grade students stream through the Edgell Memorial Library and Old Academy doors to learn and experience their rich local history. To glimpse what your classroom will learn about, read our tour highlights below.

3^rd Grade Academy Tour Highlights

 

 17^th and 18^th Centuries Framingham

• Nipmucks – Native American stone tools, wetu, canoe
• John Stone – Early settler
• Eames Massacre
• Refugees from Salem – Sarah Clayes
• “W” Stone – introduction of marking property boundaries
• Nixon Family – recorder, sash, shoemakers’ bench
• Crispus Attucks, Peter Salem, Abel Benson – African American contribution to RW
• Everyday Life- Hearth, spinning wheels, farm implements

19^th Century Framingham

• Industry – Straw Bonnets, Saxonville Mills
• Leisure Time – Toys, games, pianoforte
• Transportation – Trains, bicycle
• Education – School Room
• Everyday Life – China cabinet, fireplace mantle, furniture

20^th Century Framingham 

• Municipal Building – Compare/Contrast with Village Hall
• Suffrage – Josephine Collins, Louise Mayo (Mary Ware Dennett)
• Industry – Dennison, Staples, Bose
• Military – WWI & WWII
• Everyday Life – Kitchen, telephone
• Space Age