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Groton Historical Commission

Date/Time:  Wednesday, June 18, 2025 at 7 pm

Location:  1st Floor Meeting Room, Groton Town Hall, 173 Main Street

1. Call meeting to order.
2. May minutes (2 meetings).
3. Discussion of demo permit application for 328 Townsend Rd.
4. Update on use of AI in the future to record meetings, draft minutes.
5. Press release re: Prescott House efforts, new Demo Delay Bylaw.
   1. Need to update HistComm web page and get revised bylaw up online.
6. Discussion of HistComm's role/mandate in regards to historic landscaping, plantings.
7. Historical monuments/markers discussion/updates.
8. FY25 funded CPC project updates:
   1. Bancroft Castle.
   2. Historical mile marker project.
9. FY26 funded CPC project updates:
   1. Bancroft Castle
   2. Prescott School
   3. History Center
   4. Williams Barn
10. Historical Plaque Program. Application from Deb Burton for 258 Main St.  Proposed plaque text is:

1809-10

Mansfield-Hartwell House

Joseph Mansfield

Physician & Poet

11. Updates regarding digital storage project in cooperation with the Groton Public Library.
12. Topics not anticipated within 48 hours of the meeting.
13. New business.
14.  

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Groton Historical Commission- Agenda

June 18, 2025

7pm – Groton Town Hall

1. Call meeting to order.
2. May minutes (2 meetings).
3. Discussion of demo permit application for 328 Townsend Rd.
4. Update on use of AI in the future to record meetings, draft minutes.
5. Press release re: Prescott House efforts, new Demo Delay Bylaw.
   1. Need to update HistComm web page and get revised bylaw up online.
6. Discussion of HistComm's role/mandate in regards to historic landscaping, plantings.
7. Historical monuments/markers discussion/updates.
8. FY25 funded CPC project updates:
   1. Bancroft Castle.
   2. Historical mile marker project.
9. FY26 funded CPC project updates:
   1. Bancroft Castle
   2. Prescott School
   3. History Center
   4. Williams Barn
10. Historical Plaque Program. Application from Deb Burton for 258 Main St.  Proposed plaque text is:

1809-10

Mansfield-Hartwell House

Joseph Mansfield

Physician & Poet

11. Updates regarding digital storage project in cooperation with the Groton Public Library.
12. Topics not anticipated within 48 hours of the meeting.
13. New business.
14.  

The listing of topics that the Chair reasonably anticipates will be discussed at the meeting is not intended as a guarantee of the topics that will have been discussed. Not all topics listed may in fact be discussed, and other topics not listed may also be brought up for discussion to the extent permitted by law.