Ware

Images of America: Massachusetts

by Warren Bacon, Claudia Chicklas

In 1716, Harvard-educated minister John Read purchased the larger part of what was to become the town of Ware, Massachusetts, and named it “The Manour of Peace.” The manour’s greatest asset was its river, which first provided fish for Indians and other early settlers and later fueled the town’s great nineteenth century mills. Ware, compiled by Warren Bacon and Claudia Chicklas, chronicles the history of the town from the latter half of the nineteenth century to the 1970s, focusing on the people of the community and the contributions they made to its development. From leaders of industry and society to barefoot children in a rural school; from clergymen to high school athletes and the major-league Ware native who invented the curve ball, Ware offers vintage images and important historical information about the town’s past.

128 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1996