| Grace's Sessions In Millbury History |
| Grace Laflash, a founding member of the Millbury Historical Society in 1972, is the Grand Archivist of town lore. Printed below is one of Grace's famous Mini-History Lessons |
| In 1895, Professor Frederick W. Putnam of the Peabody Institute in Cambridge came to Millbury to certify that the Indian relics found in town were genuine. Accompanying Professor Putnam were his assistants George A. Dorsey and C.C. Willoughby and four students. The company went out on Soapstone Hill, to the rear of W.E. Horne’s store, just off High Street. Some of Mr. Horne’s men were put to work digging under the shadow of the big ledge which hangs from the hillside. At a depth of about three feet, seven or eight Indian bowls were dug up. Most of these were made of soapstone and were broken. Two stone picks were also found. Professor Putnam said the genuineness of these artifacts as Indian is indisputable. Later, some of the other relics found in this vicinity recently were exhibited. George Burton Stowe showed a bowl of soapstone, about 8 inches deep and 20 inches in diameter. The bowl was found on the Freeman farm at West Millbury and had been used for watering hens and chickens! The bowl weighed about 100 pounds. All these relics were, in the opinion of Professor Putnam, the work of the Nipmuc Indians. Mr. Willoughby exposed a number of plates for making pictures of the locality, and the students took the relics with them to be placed at the Peabody Institute. |
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| Millbury's Indian Relics |
