Haying c.1900

For many years hay was one of Sudbury’s largest crops. As seen in this photograph, taken at Palmer Farm on Goodman’s Hill Road about 1900, hay was often made in the meadows, then drawn by horses or oxen. Through the early 1800s, Sudbury’s meadowlands produced one to one and a half tons of hay per acre. But when the dam at Billerica was raised, much of this valuable land was flooded and lost.

Parmenter’s Mill c. 1900

Sudbury farmers in horse-drawn sleds wait with their grain at the Charles O. Parmenter gristmill. The first mill on this site was built by Thomas and Peter Noyes in 1660.

Sudbury High School - White Building, 1908

The old Sudbury High School was built about 1900. The building housed sixth through twelfth grade students, with the high school classes upstairs. After Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School opened in 1956, the White Building was no longer used as a school. Later renamed the Flynn Building, after longtime Sudbury teacher Alan Flynn, it now serves as a town office center. Location: 278 Old Sudbury Road. Courtesy of Edward Thompson