Name: Sharing Cleghorn Stories Meet and Greet
Start: 2025-04-26T13:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-04-26T15:00:00-04:00
Location: Fitchburg Historical Society

Let's gather to share our favorite Cleghorn stories and get to know each other better! Featuring beautiful historic pictures.
About this Event

The Fitchburg Historical Society welcomes the public on Saturday, April 26 at 1:30 p.m. to explore the past of Fitchburg’s Cleghorn neighborhood, at “Sharing Cleghorn Stories Meet and Greet.” Cleghorn was first constructed as the city’s “Little Quebec” neighborhood and is now a neighborhood where Spanish-speaking newcomers have added their culture on top of the original Francophone institutions.

Anyone with Cleghorn roots or a neighborhood connection is invited to come and share their stories at reminiscences at this free event at the Fitchburg Historical Society, in the Phoenix Building, 781 Main Street, Fitchburg, Massachusetts. The Historical Society will share some of the stories and photographs of Cleghorn in their archives, to get us all started; however, the pride of place goes to the members of the public that will come to share their pictures, memories and (brief) stories.

This event was inspired by recent research completed at the Historical Society by two of its volunteers, David Gordon and Karrie Bennett (a child of many Cleghorn residents.) It is also part of an ongoing event linking today’s Fitchburg residents to the 250th Anniversary of the American Revolution, entitled Making and Re-Making the American Dream: Bringing My Story to the Fitchburg Historical Society, which is made possible in part by a grant from the Community Foundation of North Central Massachusetts. This project also includes the story of Fitchburg’s Revolutionary War hero, James Reed, and many more events to connect Fitchburg residents with their own history of coming to America.

The Fitchburg Historical Society plans to record the contents of the program, to preserve them for the future in its archives of Fitchburg history. To share photos of Cleghorn with the historical society, or to ask any questions about the program, call 978-345-1157, email welcome (at) fitchburghistoricalsociety.com or visit during open hours on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays.