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The Stow Historical Society presents a new history of the town of Stow: Stow Things A New England Town Primer
by Ralph N. Fuller
Based on the "325 Things to Know About Stow" series in the Stow Independent, with:
From the "Introduction – The Story of Stow:" "The shorthand description for Stow Things might be: A town’s transition from a frontier settlement of 37 pioneers in 1686 to a farming community with 150 farms and 600 cows in 1870 (and 1,000 cows in 1900) to a gentrified suburb with 16 alpacas in 2008. "There have been many remarkable elements in Stow’s history – Minutemen who fought at Concord in 1775; one of the country’s first woolen mills, established at Rock Bottom around 1813; the rise of Lake Boon as a summer resort for city folk from Boston at the beginning of the 20th Century. "Stow’s development as a golfing mecca included one of the country’s first courses for African Americans, opened in 1923...
"At the same time, Stow’s story has paralleled that of many New England communities. The farmers who worked the land in the 17th and 18th Centuries created a landscape so changed it would be hard for us to recognize – overwhelmingly of cleared farmland and pastures, not the regrown forests that we see about us today. "As railroads, canals and the shifting frontier opened western territories, competition forced Stow’s agriculturists to adapt..."
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