The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. That audio postcard was from producer Samantha Broun. HANSEN: Winthrop Sherwin's store in West Groton, Massachusetts, closed in December. Unidentified Man #4: I've been waiting all week. Have you been waiting all afternoon with that? SHERWIN: One dollar, that's the last sale. I can't praise my old neighbors, that I live beside of, enough for the way they have treated my sister and I. How you doing? Geez, you got a bargain, you know. Unidentified Man #1: You're closing tonight. SHERWIN: We're closing tonight, you know. Unidentified Man #1: Sherwin's store is the heart and soul of the town. I've found an awful lot of good friendships. Unidentified Man #3: (Unintelligible) talking about. Unidentified Man #2: I found a fortune when I found the store. JANET (Resident, West Groton, Massachusetts): I'm still a newcomer. Janet runs the yarn store across the street. I think that's a pretty good headline there on that paper: Clover Farm Market Closing, An Era Ends In Groton. Now if you hand me one of those little sons, I'm going to get caught up on the day's news. I have no children, but I always liked the kids and the kids like to come in here. I don't have any, and I never was married.Ĭorrect. Unidentified Child #1: About how much would a dollar twenty-five - I have $1.25. And I think it's about time for me to retire and have a little relaxation.ĭo you know how much it comes to without me figuring it out? I came in to work in this store in 1937, so this year, I've been here 70 years. WINTHROP SHERWIN (Resident, West Groton, Massachusetts): I'm Winthrop Sherwin from West Groton, and I run the little country store in the square. Producer Samantha Broun captured the end of an era in this audio postcard. It was popular as a summer resort for city residents and today both permanent and summer residents live there.Winthrop Sherwin recently closed his little country store after 70 years in West Groton, Massachusetts. Leave your condolences to the family on this memorial page or send flowers to show you care. The Lost Lake area was created at the turn of the century through damming nearby streams and flooding an existing field. Lindall Blood (1924 - 2016) from West Groton, MA. In the past, other areas of Groton were designated as east, south, and north, but only West Groton’s name survived. Joseph's Pepperell Saturday Masses 4:00pm St. West Groton has its own post office, fire station, and water department. Phone: (978) 443-5737 Email: officestjs.page Website: Mass Times Sunday Masses 7:30am St. The old red brick Groton Leatherboard factory still stands on the Squannacook River as an example of the late industrial period of a New England mill village. Jon Winkler The Blood Farm located in West Groton, which is having its slaughterhousen shut down until January after an incident on its killing floor By Jon Winkler. West Groton lies within a “V” formed by the Nashua and the Squannacook rivers. The surviving residents fled to Concord and other safe havens returning two years later to rebuild the town.Īs Groton’s population grew so did many supporting industries including a soapstone quarry, a large hop-growing industry, a brick factory, a saw mill, a grist mill, and a pewter mill which produced tea pots, plates, cups, and buttons. In 1676, during the King Philip’s War, Indians attacked the town and burned down all but four garrison houses. It was named in honor of one of the original Selectmen, Dean Winthrop, who was born in Groton, Suffolk County, England. In 1655, this trading post evolved into a formal settlement called The Plantation of Groton, which encompassed all of what is now Groton and Ayer, nearly all of Pepperell and Shirley, a large part of Dunstable and Littleton, as well as smaller parts of Harvard, Westford, Nashua, NH, and Hollis, NH. Adventuresome families soon followed, on foot or on horseback, and found it a good place for the necessary farming and fishing. The area was known as Petapawag, an Indian name for swampy land. Groton had its precarious beginnings when John Tinker followed Indian Trails from the Bay area and settled near the mouth of Nod Brook on the Nashua to set up his trading post to do business with the Nashaway Indians.
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