Historical documents show creation of Road Agent role
This photo of the massive amount of effort involved in removing snow after a large snowstorm is believed to have been taken on Sam Hill Road, formerly known as Cilley Hill Road. Photo: copied from Robie Family photo album When I came across these pictures, I was reminded of Andover’s recent Town Meeting with its […]
Unique history of the Portsmouth Schoolhouse
This picture of East Andover Village is from a post card in my collection which probably belonged to my mother, and possibly her parents or grandparents before her. The picture was most likely taken from an upstairs window in what is now the Highland Lake Inn. On the right is Maple Street which is heading […]
Published in 12-page spread about Andover
After saying last month, in my article in the March issue of the Beacon, I hadn’t previously seen a picture of the Portsmouth School in its original setting, I was surprised to rediscover this early photo – and it was right in my own Andover history files! The picture appears in a twelve page article […]
Organized by local Historical Societies in 17 towns.
Want to learn more about the dramatic impact on New Hampshire’s people and places caused by the coming of the railroad in the 19th century? Then plan to attend the kickoff of a coming six-month-long, multi-town exhibition at 7 PM on Thursday, November 7, in the Warner Town Hall. And bring along any railroad-related memorabilia, […]
Sunday, October 13
The Tucker Mountain School House will be open on Sunday, October 13 from 1 to 3 PM. Visitors will be able to browse through a collection of old school books now owed by the Andover Historical Society. Other artifacts and early education memorabilia will be on display. The school has been visited by nearly a […]
High above the roof of the Potter Place railroad station, volunteer Fred Nystrom, a Contoocook railroad buff, checks out the condition of the old semaphore, a device once used to send messages from the stationmaster to passing trains by changing the angle of an attached arm via an assembly of hand cranks, levers, rods and […]
Sunday, October 6
The Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire (BHTNH) will hold its first ever guided tour in the town of Warner on Sunday, October 6, 2019 at 10 AM. The tour, entitled, A Small New Hampshire Town Remembers Its Black History, will be led by Warner residents and historians Lynn Clark & Rebecca Courser. Warner is […]
The Wilmot Historical Society invites you to view the latest oral history videos posted on the Memories of Wilmot page of its website, wilmothistoricalsociety.org. Good friends May Jones and Barbara Sanborn were kind enough to share their stories in interviews conducted by the Society over the past two years. The Society endeavors to capture the […]
Sunday, September 8
The Tucker Mountain School will be open on Sunday, September 8, from 1-3 PM. Visitors will be able to purchase the limited edition glass ornament of the school. They are $20 each. The Andover Historical Society’s 2020 calendar will also be available at the open house. The school is open at other times by appointment. […]
Sunday, August 11
Open House at the Tucker Mountain School will be held on Sunday, August 11 from 1-3 PM. Donna Baker-Hartwell will speak about the making of the 2010 video “Reenactment of a Day in 1887 at the Tucker Mountain School” and how she discovered that the central figure in the photo that inspired the video is […]