Waban is one of the 13 villages of Newton, Massachusetts. Nickname: The Garden City Location in Massachusetts Coordinates: Country United States State Massachusetts County Middlesex County Settled 1639 Incorporated 1688 Government  - Type Mayor-council city  - Mayor David B. Cohen (Dem) Area  - City  18. ...

Origin of name

Waban was named for Waban, the first Massachusett Indian converted to Christianity, in 1646. Although Waban lived in Nonantum, a hill in the northeasternmost part of Newton, the area around the present village of Waban was a favored hunting ground. A Native American resident of Nonantum (in Newton, Massachusetts) who converted to Christianity in the 1600s. ...

Education

Waban has two elementary schools, Angier and Zervas.

The village is one of Newton's few to retain its branch library.

Richest/Best-Educated ZIP Code

Waban's 02468 ZIP Code is the richest/best-educated in the United States; to appreciate the significance of that virgule—Waban is not the richest ZIP Code even in Newton, but factor in education and it's the combined richest/best-educated. How can this be? Well, Newton and Brookline together have 4% of the country's psychiatrists, many working out of offices in their homes. Waban, all by itself, however, has 1%, and all those Ph.Ds result in 02468 having attained its distinction.

Poor Farm

An area near where the shopping area of Waban now stands was originally the site of a working farm for the indigent.

Notable residents

• Ralph Waldo Emerson (and maybe Henry David Thoreau) [1]
• Joe Jarrell, M. Roland Heintzelman Award-winning playwright, author of Empathy Is In
• Richard F. Jarrell, co-founder of Jarrell-Ash Company (later Thermo Jarrell Ash) [2]
• Richard Martin Jarrell, (see Newton, Massachusetts Notable Residents), son of Richard F. Jarrell
• Tom Jarrell, essayist, Boston Avatar contributor, author of "Confessions of a Two-Time Draft Card Burner" (included in Civil Disobedience: Theory and Practice, edited by Hugo Adam Bedau)
• Roger Kellaway, Grammy winning Pianist, Composer, created works for orchestra, chamber ensemble, and jazz big band, as well as for film, TV, ballet and stage productions.
• Fritz Richmond, folk musician, played jug and washtub bass in the Jim Kweskin Jug Band
• Mark Sandman, rock and roll musician, singer, and songwriter, member of the groups Treat Her Right and Morphine
• Paul Wiggin (not the football player), tenor, founder of M.U.S.E. (MUsic in Service to the Elderly), a non-profit that sends professional singers to perform in nursing homes and other shut-in venues (since its inception in 1973 M.U.S.E. has produced over 30,000 concerts)

• Jack Lemmon was born in an elevator at Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Waban.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, poet, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement in the early nineteenth century. ... Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862; born David Henry Thoreau[1]) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic, and philosopher who is best known for Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance... Nickname: The Garden City Location in Massachusetts Coordinates: Country United States State Massachusetts County Middlesex County Settled 1639 Incorporated 1688 Government  - Type Mayor-council city  - Mayor David B. Cohen (Dem) Area  - City  18. ... Anti-war activist Midge Potts is arrested for civil disobedience on the steps of the Supreme Court of the United States on February 9, 2005. ... Roger Kellaway is an American composer, arranger, and pianist. ... Fritz Richmond (1939-2005) was an American musician and recording engineer. ... Jim Kweskin is the founder of the Jim Kweskin Jug Band, with Fritz Richmond, Mel Lyman, and Geoff and Maria Muldaur. ... Mark Sandman (September 24, 1952 – July 3, 1999) was an American singer, songwriter, musical instrument inventor and multi-instrumentalist. ... Treat Her Right was a blues rock group formed in Boston, Massachussets in 1984. ... Morphine (INN) (IPA: ) is a highly potent opiate analgesic drug and is the principal active agent in opium and the prototypical opiate. ... John Uhler Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001), better known as Jack Lemmon, was a two-time Academy Award-winning American actor and comedian. ...

See also

• Waban
• Waban (MBTA station)

Coordinates: 42°19′40″N, 71°13′38″W A Native American resident of Nonantum (in Newton, Massachusetts) who converted to Christianity in the 1600s. ... Waban is a station on the Green Line D Branch of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...

External Links

• Waban Improvement Society