Not Afraid to Go: Acton’s Part in the Birth and Preservation of Our Nation

 

The Home Front in Acton

This section includes:

• Letter from Maria Kinsley to the Sanitary Commission
• Map of Acton's villages
• Program of Sabbath school exhibition 1862
• Commercial ads of Acton businesses
• Photo of John Fletcher's boot and shoe factory, burned in 1862
• Photo of Fletcher's new factory in 1863
• Painting of Ball pencil factory in East Acton
• Photo of Acton Center in 1879
• Illustration of Col. Winthrop E. Faulkner
• Letters to and from troops in the field and their families
• Town support of soldier's families

 

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