The location of a station here marked a potential village, and a name was required. My father, William Chamberlain Strong, was very active in securing the right-of-way for the Boston and Albany Railroad at the time the Newton Circuit Road was built. Authorities would not be amusing, nor, indeed, possible for me, but I believe this account to be a fairly accurate one.įirst, let me record how Waban comes by its name. I am going to draw a picture from memory and hearsay of these early times, without attempting to verify my facts by consulting authorities. And so it is, but like many a city of antiquity it has risen on the ruins of an earlier civilization which was not without its glory.
Very likely the residents of Waban today think of that portion of Newton as an entirely new village. Waban itself was a part of Auburndale: it didn’t exist independently until 1886 - J.M.] It started in Newton Highlands, followed Woodward Street to Waban Square, and went off to Lower Falls, and from there apparently all the way to Sherborn. Beacon Street was originally named the Sherborn Road. The new railroad built in the 80’s was called the Circuit Railroad, because it went in a circle back to Boston where it started, so you could ride it either way and get to the same place. In this essay he describes Waban in 1875 as a group of farm-houses at the junction of Beacon and Woodward Streets, which was the main road to Newton Upper Falls, where you could catch a train to Boston and where the Waban kids were sent off each day to school per horse-and-wagon. Lawrence Strong, a local M.D., was Isabel Strong’s uncle. The entire book can be found online here History and Tradition of Waban
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