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Trail Participants:
National
Archives &
Records
Administration (Northeast Region)
Waltham Historical Society &
Charles
River Museum of Industry
The Schwamb Mill Preservation Trust
Dedham Historical Society
Needham Historical Society
Willard House and Clock Museum
Stonehurst: the Robert Treat
Paine Estate
Trail
Map
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ready access to trade routes, a consistently prosperous economy,
and a long history of educational excellence, the Boston area
has been blessed with a disproportionate share of inventors,
innovators and visionaries.
Many of the objects that we take for granted today are the tangible
manifestations of these revolutionary ideas.
The Innovation and Industry Trail highlights this intellectual
wealth by focusing on the relationship between local innovations
and wide-scale social and economic progress.
Exhibits at the institutions along the What’s the Big
Idea? Trail look at local industries that were innovative
and had lasting impact. These Big Ideas, not just the technology,
changed both industry and life as we know it.
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