Use these resources to read more about the history of the village of Waban

[Image: Angier School classroom, 1930s]

Clarke, Michael J. (2015). Newton’s Almshouses.

Historic Newton (1982).  Newton’s 19^th Century Architecture: Newton Highlands and Waban. Newton, MA: City of Newton Planning Department.

Newton Tricentennial Commission. (1988) Newton, Massachusetts: 1688-1988. A Celebration of Three Hundred Years. Newton, MA.

Lopenzina, Drew. (2012) Red ink: Native Americans picking up the pen in the colonial period

Nugent, George R.(2011)  A Waban Childhood.  Edited by Lauren Gibbons Paul. Waban, MA:  Waban Improvement Society Press.

Rowe, Henry K. (1930) Tercentenary History of Newton: 1630-1930. Cambridge, MA: Murray Printing Company

Smith, Samuel Francis. (1880)  History of Newton, Massachusetts: Town and City from its earliest Settlement to the present time, 1630-1880. Boston, MA: American Logotype Co.

Strong, William C. (1892) Fruit Culture and the Laying out and Management of a Country Home.

These community organizations also have more information about the history of the Village of Waban including personal journals and monographs:

Waban Improvement Society

Waban Area Council