The New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources is proud to announce that the Enfield Center Town House has been honored by the United States Secretary of the Interior with placement on the National Register of Historic Places. Following the Toleration Act of 1819, which prohibited taxpayer funds from being used to support buildings where religious […]
WARNER New Hampshire – When someone calls the Telephone Museum and asks you if they could donate an old telephone truck to your collection, you say YES without hesitation! That is just what happened at the New Hampshire Telephone Museum when brothers Gregg and Eric Haskin, President and VP-Network Operations of the Waitsfield and Champlain […]
1920-1921
This picture was given to me by Mary Robie Godbout, a cousin who lives in Laconia. Mary’s father and aunt, Bernard and Edith Robie, who are in the picture, would have been living on Cilley Hill Road (Sam Hill Road) in 1920. They had previously attended the Dyers Crossing School, but it was closed in […]
Despite a drizzly day, everyone’s spirits were not dampened as they gathered for the 120th Hersey Family Reunion at the Hersey Farm in East Andover, New Hampshire. The farm was the home for over 50 years of Guy & Nannie Hersey, and this year’s reunion was hosted by their great granddaughter Lori Hersey and […]
Good old news from Andover, East Andover, West Andover, Cilleyville, and Potter Place gossip columns from the Franklin Journal Transcripts Transcribed by Virginia S. Edwards Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin LaPlante, Sr. of Andover Road who were guests of honor at a surprise 40th Anniversary celebration dinner given by their children, and held at […]
Sunday, August 6 at 1 PM
Kenneth Cushing, author and historian will give an hour long presentation about the history of the Andover (New Hampshire) section of the Northern Railroad at 1 PM on Sunday, August 6, 2017 at the Andover Historical Society’s annual “Old Time Fair”. Ken will discuss the history of the railways and rail stations of Andover, New […]
Mary Wadleigh Hilton, wife of Charles Hilton, died in East Andover on Tuesday, October 12, 1824, at the age of 72, after a five weeks’ illness. She had lived in Andover almost all of her adult life, had borne her husband seven children, and had outlived him by twelve years. After her family and friends […]
Starting Saturday, July 1
The Wilmot Historical Society’s History Room will be open to visitors every Saturday morning in July and August, plus Saturday, September 2 at the fabulous Wilmot Farmers’ Market this summer. The Curiosity Shop will be selling curiosities and collectibles in its usual spot from 9 AM until noon on the first Saturday of the month […]
There was a full house at the East Andover Grange Hall on June 15 for Kevin Gardner’s Humanities to Go program on Discovering New England Stone Walls. The evening was sponsored by the Andover Historical Society with a grant from the New Hampshire Humanities. Kevin explained how and why New England came to acquire its […]
50 YEARS AGO, IN ANDOVER JULY 1967 MCMLXVll ‘‘‘‘ Good old news from Andover, East Andover, West Andover, Cilleyville, and Potter Place’’’’ Transcribed by: Virginia S. Edwards ‘‘‘ Gossip columns from the Franklin Journal Transcripts ‘‘‘ ANDOVER: JULY 6, 1967 There was no Andover section for news in the Journal Transcripts A BIG THANK YOU […]