In the 1860s, William Emerson Baker retired from his sewing machine business with a vast fortune and purchased nearly 800 acres in Needham - the famous Ridge Hill Farms. Widely regarded as America's first amusement...

Before there was a United States, there was a NEEDHAM. This small town transformed itself, over 300 years, from a sleepy farming village, to a thriving mill center, to an ethnic melting pot, to an...

A Film by Derick Risner. Presented by the Needham Channel and the Needham History Center & Museum. On February 2, 1934, three men robbed the Needham Trust Company, killing two Needham police officers - the...

A film by Joseph Hunter; Written and narrated by Robert Pollack. (2005). Do you remember dancing at the Totem Pole Ballroom? A nostalgic and affectionate look at Newton's Norumbega Park in its heyday. Historic photos,...

Before there was a United States, there was a NEEDHAM. This small town transformed itself, over 300 years, from a sleepy farming village, to a thriving mill center, to an ethnic melting pot, to an...

In the 1860s, William Emerson Baker retired from his sewing machine business with a vast fortune and purchased nearly 800 acres in Needham - the famous Ridge Hill Farms. Widely regarded as America's first amusement...