01940 Winter 2018_V3

5 Things...
You didn't know about Lynnfield
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BY GAYLA CAWLEY
During Prohibition, there
used to be a speakeasy
in town that the police
would "raid" every other
Tuesday night. But it wasn't
much of a bust; the illicit saloon
would continue to operate for
the following 13 days until the
next visit, according to Robert
MacKendrick, a member of the
town's Historical Commission
and president of the Historical
Society.
Nestled in a hill off
of Route 1, in what's
now called the Bow
Ridge Reservation,
stood the Kallenberg Quarry.
Operating during the 1800s, the
granite quarry provided much of
the stone used for buildings in
downtown Boston, according to
MacKendrick.
In 1960, the Lynnfield
High School football team
set a record for most
points scored in a ninegame
season, a school record that
still stands. The Pioneers went 9-0
and scored 410 points.
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Many professional
athletes have chosen to
live in Lynnfield while
playing for various
Boston teams, including Red Sox
players Carl Yastrzemski, Rico
Petrocelli and Dwight Evans;
Celtics player Chris Ford; and
Bruins players Mike Milbury, Andy
Moog, Brad Park and Jean Ratelle,
according to Robert Curtin, the
town's assistant to administration.
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When people get their
running water, Curtin said,
most think it's a municipal
function. Lynnfield has two
water districts, but neither is part
of town government. Residents
get their water from two entities
chartered by the state legislature,
the Lynnfield Center Water District
and the Lynnfield Water District.
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