The Northborough Historical Society was founded in 1906 through the efforts of reverend Josiah C. Kent. Rev. Kent who invited a group of townspeople to meet at the Unitarian parsonage on November 7, 1906 to consider the desirability of organizing such a society. Nine men and four women responded favorably to Rev. Kent's plea that "the facts of Northborough history should be collected and thus preserved from oblivion".