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Foxborough Historical Commission

Foxborough, Massachusetts

Explore this community history collection to discover the people, places, organizations, and events of Foxborough.

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11Titles

Explore publications and collections from the past.

1850 to 2025Dates represented

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242,082Archive pages

Historical pages reported for this collection.

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Discover the people, places, and stories of Foxborough, Massachusetts.

Look for a detail that matters to you in Foxborough, then follow your question into the collection shared by Foxborough Historical Commission. Its eleven titles include material from 1850 to 2025.

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  • Selected titles

    In the collection shared by Foxborough Historical Commission, you will find “Foxboro Reporter” and “The Salmagundi Journal”.

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  • Ways to explore

    A story about Foxborough may take shape across several sources, with each contributing a different detail.

A familiar place or name may open a path into the past. Compare available evidence before treating a possible connection as fact. Learning about local history can be a personal pursuit, a way to support a class, or a shared community interest. Explore the archive online for free, without a subscription.

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Titles in this collection

Browse eleven titles and 242,082 digitized pages, with material from 1850 to 2025. This collection is shared through Foxborough Historical Commission's partnership with Advantage Archives. Some years or items may be missing between the dates shown.

If you are tracing a family connection or exploring local history, the titles below offer a place to begin and a thread to follow.

Foxboro Reporter

137,820 pages from 1884 to 2025

Foxboro Reporter

16,346 pages from 2015 to 2024

Norfolk County Chronicle

72 pages from 1863 to 1864

The Eagle and Flag

64 pages in 1863

The Foxboro Courier

88 pages in 1882

The Foxboro Gazette

120 pages from 1874 to 1875

The Foxboro Reporter

48,220 pages from 1893 to 2005

The Foxboro Reporter

32,890 pages from 2005 to 2015

The Foxboro Times

6,036 pages from 1873 to 1886

The Home Library

420 pages in 1857

The Salmagundi Journal

6 pages in 1850

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Research Guidance

Compare sources without forcing agreement

If a story from Foxborough has reached you through family or community memory, note what is known and what remains uncertain. Use the collection details shared by the Foxborough Historical Commission to look for a source that can add context or test a detail. When another source is available, compare its dates, names, and context with the first. Preserve differences until the evidence explains them.

Compare a promising result with the title information and date context available for it. If the details do not fit your question, keep it as a possible lead and look for another account or source where available rather than forcing a connection.

Capture the title, date, and page or item location for a detail you may want to revisit. Label your interpretation as your reading, not the source's own words. Keep enough context with the note that another reader can retrace it.

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Community Partnership

Keeping local history a community resource

This community archive is made possible by the collaboration of the Foxborough Historical Commission, its community, and Advantage Archives. Together, these partnerships preserve local sources and give people a way to explore, learn from, and share the history around them.

Advantage Archives covers ongoing archive hosting, storage, development, and maintenance. The institution and its community do not pay a subscription, seat license, annual support contract, or other recurring archive-service charge. Local history remains a community resource, not a subscription to maintain.

Would you like to see more of your community's history preserved and accessible? Start a conversation with your library, newspaper publisher, historical or genealogical society, museum, or school about the materials they would like to share and a possible partnership with Advantage Archives.

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Read All About It

Stories, research tips, and archive news

Read All About It connects archive research with the people and institutions preserving local history. Explore partner and community stories, project updates, research ideas, and perspectives on digitization, education, and working with primary sources. Use the articles as a starting point for your next question or a new way to share a discovery.

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March 18, 2025

It’s Your Community’s History, So Why Rent Something You Own?

We believe that history belongs to the communities where it was made - not locked behind paywalls or inaccessible due to budget restrictions. Subscription-based services and large content aggregators are generally more concerned with "content" and less concerned with the history that content contains. Their models typically involve a reoccurring charge for a plan that renews annually or licensing agreements with the library based on population served or circulation numbers. You are essentially Renting Access To YOUR History.
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