The Canes
The Boston Post Cane was distributed to towns in the following states:
The information here is NOT a comprehensive list of the towns that received the canes. For that information there are books that are available on the topic (by Barbara Staples) – visit your local library. It is important to note that the Boston Post only gave out 700 canes, but they did not specify which towns received them. What is certain is that not every town received a cane.
The information here is based on research done by the Maynard Historical Society and then updated through discovered news articles and email submissions. Some undated entries may refer to research over ten years old, so your mileage may vary as far as current accuracy.
If you don’t find a town or person listed here it’s because nobody told us about them or we haven’t by chance bumped into that information. Also note that not every town received a cane!
If you have information you think should be included in these pages, please visit the Contributions page for details on how to submit updates.
Here’s how we’re doing as of February 2010:
- Maine: we have updates on 118 of them.
- Massachusetts: we have updates on 95 of them.
- New Hampshire: we have updates on 72 of them.
- Rhode Island: we have updates on 12 of them.
So we have a long way to go to finding what’s happening with all of the canes, and we appreciate everyone’s contributions.