AN ACT DESIGNATING A CERTAIN BRIDGE IN THE TOWN OF PEMBROKE AS THE JUDITH WINSOR SMITH MEMORIAL BRIDGE
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
Bridge number P05006 on Schoosett street in the town of Pembroke shall be designated and known as the Judith Winsor Smith memorial bridge in honor of Ms. Judith Winsor Smith, a pioneering women's suffrage activist, social reformer and abolitionist who lived in the town of Pembroke.
Ms. Winsor Smith, née McLauthlin, was a leader in the women’s suffrage movement until the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed in 1920 when she voted for the first time at the age of 99. She was a founder and the first president of 1 of the first women's clubs in the commonwealth. She was born in the town of Marshfield and moved to the town of Duxbury as a young woman to take a teaching job. She married a shipbuilder in 1841 and the couple had 6 children. The Smiths spent their early married life in the town of Pembroke and later moved to the East Boston section of the city of Boston. Ms. Winsor Smith died on December 12, 1921 at the age of 100.
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain suitable markers bearing this designation in compliance with the standards of the department.
Approved, December 29, 2022.