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The Armenians of Whitinsville Project
The letter pictured here (and transcribed below) is part of the collection of the Northbridge Historical Society. It was presented to Gregory Jundanian by the Whitinsville Social Library and Society volunteer Carole Brouwer upon hearing about the Armenians of Whitinsville Project, a project supported by the Soorp Asdvadzadzin Armenian Apostolic Church of Whitinsville and Proj
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Thank you. Reading the letter was an important reminder that terrible violence and calamities were happening to us well before 1915.
I have a written history on Whitinsville done by Rose Alahverdian. It’s yours if you want it and I can mail it to SAVE as well.
This is amazing. Thank you for working to preserve this important history of the Armenian diaspora. I am a Whitinsville gal.
Thanks for all your much appreciated work. My roots are in Whitinsville and my Grandfather owned a property on D Street in which he was sold to by his employer Whitin who he worked for many a year.
Hi John, Just seeing this comment some months later. Could you go to the website at armeniansofwhitinsville@gmail.com, and reach out to us. We’d love to talk to you. Thanks. Greg
Historian Everett Ladd “Ted” Widmer is the Great Grandson of Reverend Cyrus Hamlin. Dr. Widmer is the author of “Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days to Washington” (2020) and many other historical works.
My grandparents were Mimish and Hagop Badagian and lived on D Street.
Hi Lisa, Just seeing this comment some months later. Could you go to the website at armeniansofwhitinsville@gmail.com, and reach out to us. We’d love to talk to you. Thanks. Greg
My grandparents, Bedros and Anna Hagopian lived at 42 D Street from 1921. Bedros and my father, Edward both worked in the foundry. Bedros was a master molder at the Whitin Machine Works. My father was born on D Street as were his younger siblings. My grandparents were from Govdoon and managed to survive the 1915 genocide. Bedros fought with the Armenian Legion of the French Foreign Legion during WWI. I would love to find out more about life in Whitinsville during the 20’s and 30’s. Thanks for doing this wonderful project!