FOXBORO - Foxboro history is alive and well and it lives at Memorial Hall, the town archives and museum, in photos, documents, artifacts and memorabilia featured in special displays throughout the 1868 building erected as a Soldier's Memorial at the close of the Civil War.

Memorial Hall will be open to visitors on Founders Day from 9 a.m. to noon.

For the first time, visitors will also be welcome at the original Paine School, a one-room school house on Spring Street recently moved to a central location behind the town hall, the last of the original school buildings erected in 1795.

Also open from 9 a.m. to noon, displays in the school will include photographs and memorabilia of early schools, a slide show of the move of the school and its restoration as well as a collection of early school desks.

Memorial Hall, which old-timers recall as Boyden Library which was housed there from its inception until the present library was built, will be staffed by members of the Foxboro Historical Commission. The door will open upon a newly refurbished entry hall with a freshly painted vaulted ceiling and a new slate entryway floor, the work of local craftsmen Sandy Scott and Tom Heaney.

Exhibits include running photos in the 100 Years of Innovation display detailing the history of The Foxboro Co.

Additional early Foxboro photos will appear on a large screen and videos of early history programs broadcast by Foxboro Cable Access will be shown.