The snow-covered roofs of cars and pick-up trucks, jam-packed into the Town Hall parking lot, shine brightly under the full moon of this freezing February night. Despite sub-zero temperatures, the townspeople will likely fill the hall to capacity for this last home game of the season for both the girls’ and boys’ high school basketball […]
I am writing an essay about Mary N. Chase (1863-1959) and am asking for information about her and those who knew her. She lived in Andover from 1899 through the 1940s and had a significant place in New Hampshire history. She was president of the New Hampshire Suffrage Association (1902-1912), working for the passage of […]
The Andover Lions Club, long the proud caretaker of a classic Concord Stagecoach, is now planning to showcase this treasure permanently in a new storage building on the grounds of the Andover Historical Society in Potter Place. For many decades, the Lions Club stagecoach has been a main feature of Andover’s Fourth of July Celebrations, […]
Editor’s Note: The Beacon is encouraging residents to submit a significant memory of life in Andover, or from one of the surrounding towns that perhaps has some connection to Andover. For more information, contact Articles@nullAndoverBeacon.com, or call 603 735-6099. We’d love to hear from you! It was late summer of 1945. World War II had […]
The second half of the Andover Historical Society’s 40 years began with the addition of three new properties. In 2003, the Historical Society accepted a gift of a tract of land on Route 11 from Dalbello Sports Company near what is now the Millennium Moving Company. Two months later, the Historical Society officially accepted the […]
The Andover Historical Society recently received a donation of 50 journals written by Wendell Elkins, the son of Hervey Elkins, who is the focus of the Beech Hill story. Wendell Elkins grew up on a farm on Beech Hill in Andover. Beech Hill was a closely knit farming community overlooking Mount Kearsarge. The farm was […]
Note: This article about Florence Clarke Gove was written by Dorothy O. Ford in January of 1997. Florence Gove’s daughter, Beryl Gove Sanborn, asked that it be reprinted in honor of her mother’s 100th birthday this month. At the end, there is information about sending cards to Florence. Florence Clarke was born in North Raynham, […]