Wayland Center– Plantings and Other Improvements Proposed by Landscape Architect John Nolen, 1911
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Planting Diagrams & Lists of Plants from John Nolen’s Map
Trinitarian Congregational Church area (includes Center School where the play fields are now)
First Parish, Wayland Inn (now the Safety Building site), and the town green (Mellen office site)
Train depot, old Town Hall & Library building (now Grout-Heard House site), and this library
Archival Maps & Plans
- View the Library’s extensive collection online at Digital Commonwealth or the original maps – ask in person at the Reference Desk or call 508-358-2311 to arrange.
Archival Photographs
- View the Library collection online at Digital Commonwealth or original photographs – ask in person at the Reference Desk or call 508-358-2311 to arrange.
- Wayland Museum & Historical Society – view online or see originals in person by appointment, call (508) 358-7959 or email info@waylandmuseum.org.
Books & AV Materials
- Annals of Sudbury, Wayland and Maynard, Middlesex County, Mass. by Alfred Sereno Hudson, 1891.
- Five Miles Astride the River – 20 min. DVD by Zander Cowen and Jacob Sussman, 2014.
- Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America – 60 min documentary by PBS, 2015. Available online.
- New Towns for Old: Achievements in Civic Improvement in Some American Small Towns and Neighborhoods by John Nolen, 1927.
- Old-Time Wayland by Alfred Wayland Cutting, 1926.
- Report upon the Town of Wayland Mass by John Nolen, with cover letter by the Wayland Village Improvement Society, 1911.
- The Birth of an American Town, Part 1 – 40-min You Tube documentary by Atun-Shei Films, 2023.
- The Living Landscape: Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity in the Home Garden by R. Darke, 2016.
- The Puritan Village Evolves: A History of Wayland Massachusetts by Helen F. Emery, 1981.
- The Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town by Sumner Chilton Powell, 1963, 1970.
- Wayland A to Z: a Dictionary of Then and Now by Evelyn Wolfson and Dick Hoyt, 2004.
- Wayland Historical Tours by Barbara Robinson (Ed), 1976, revised 2013.
- Wayland: Images of America by George Lewis and the Wayland Historical Society, 2002.