North Shore Women Honored For Contributions To Suffrage Movement

DANVERS, MA — The North Shore's contributions to the women's suffrage movement will be commemorated with a pair of historic markers in the coming months.

The local nonprofit Suffrage100MA said Anne L. Page of Danvers and the Remond Family of Salem are among the five women or families who will be honored statewide.

The markers are anticipated to be unveiled in the spring and summer of 2022.

Also honored will be Maria Baldwin of Cambridge, Sojourner Truth of Northampton and Sarah E. Wall of Worcester.

"We are so proud to announce the approval of five Massachusetts suffrage historic markers, each honoring the lives of those who bravely worked to advance women’s voting rights, with more than half of these markers dedicated to women and men of color," said Suffrage100MA Founder & President Fredie Kay, the Massachusetts State Coordinator of the National Votes for Women Trail. "These five markers are the result of more than two years of dedicated collaboration."

Sponsored by the National Collaborative for Women's History Sites, the National Votes for Women Trail seeks to recognize and celebrate the enormous diversity of people and groups active in the struggle for women's suffrage. The Trail consists of two parts: 1) a database with digital map and 2) a program of historical markers for over 200 women’s suffrage sites across the country, funded by the William G. Pomeroy Foundation's National Women’s Suffrage Marker Grant Program.

"The National Collaborative for Women's History Sites is grateful to the Pomeroy Foundation for their generous support and partnership in helping bring alive through the National Women's Suffrage Marker Grant Program the little known history of the women’s suffrage movement that significantly expanded democracy in the United States," says NCWHS President Marsha Weinstein. "Communities are commemorating with the Pomeroy Foundation's historic markers, the places where local grassroots activity took place, thereby recognizing the remarkable efforts of the foremothers and forefathers who fought to win women the right to vote, which will inspire women to vote today."

(Scott Souza is a Patch field editor covering Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, Salem and Swampscott. He can be reached at Scott.Souza@Patch.com. Twitter: @Scott_Souza.)