History Mystery: Can You Identify this House?
"The Outlook, East Andover, N. H."
Tucker Mountain School House Stages a Scavenger Hunt
Sunday, August 9, from 1 to 3 PM
By Donna Baker-Hartwell, AHS
The Andover Historical Society’s Tucker Mountain School House will be open on Sunday, August 9, from 1 to 3 PM. Activities will include a scavenger hunt for historical items around the 1837 school house like a mortise and tendon joint, a wooden wall peg, something that shows evidence of a porcupine, something that shows evidence […]
Fifty Years Ago in Andover: August 1965
Jo Crisp starts a nursery school
Here’s some old news from the Andover, East Andover, West Andover, Potter Place, and Cilleyville “gossip” columns of the Franklin Journal Transcript, selected by Heather Makechnie. August 5, 1965 Microwave Relay Tower Being Built Here: Construction of a microwave relay tower, part of the network that will join Ashburnham, Massachusetts, and Cornish, Maine, is underway […]
Wilmot Historical Society Adds to Its Oral History Collection
Expanding its Web site, too
Press release
The Wilmot Historical Society (WHS) has been busy lately. WHS is conducting oral history sessions, planning to add more archival information to its expanded Web site at WilmotHistoricalSociety.org, and opening its History Room (a collection featuring artifacts related to the town and its residents) and its Curiosity Shop (which sells must-have collectibles and curiosities) on […]
Warner Historian Reads from His Mount Kearsarge Book
Larry Sullivan shares history, legends, and folktales
Press release
Warner’s Tory Hill Authors Series continues its sixth season with Warner historian and author Larry Sullivan reading from his latest work, Mount Kearsarge: History, Stories, Legends and Folktales on Saturday, July 11, at the Warner Town Hall. After you read this book, you will never see Mount Kearsarge in the same old way. You will […]
Andover Fourth of July Parade, 1898
Pause for a photo on Poplar Street
Tucker Mountain Schoolhouse Opens for the Season
Come squeeze lemons on July 12
By Donna Baker-Hartwell, Andover Historical Society
The Tucker Mountain Schoolhouse will be open on Sunday, July 12, from 1 to 3 PM. Come squeeze your own lemons and make real lemonade! If you would like to tour the William Tucker cellar hole, Donna Baker-Hartwell would be happy to show you. William Tucker donated the land for the building of the school in 1836. […]
The Center Road: One of Four Old Routes to Franklin
North of Webster Lake and over Hogback
By Rita Norander, Andover Historical Society
The old Center Road was built about 250 years ago and played an important role in the settlement and development of Andover. This road is on the northern side of Sucker Brook and Hogback and more or less runs parallel to Route 11 in the area near our house. Today we know part of […]
Fourth Graders Visit Andover Historical Society Museum
Three towns on a round-robin tour
Remembering the Northern Railroad’s Glory Days
Exhibit in Potter Place depicts many remaining artifacts
