300 Cheers to Grappone Ford for supporting the Tricentennial!! Grappone Ford is bringing their “Onsite Mobile Service” to Canterbury in support of the Tricentennial! Come get your oil changed and you’ll be supporting all the events, projects, & activities underway for…
Memories of Lois from Friends and Family From Anne Emerson Lois was my neighbor on Shaker Road. I admired her greatly for about everything she did in her life – being a devoted mother of six, a gardener growing most…
Sue Russell of the Historic Canterbury Women’s Committee has been looking through the town’s historical society files to gather information on notable women of the town. Read the whole story here!
“Serving one’s community” in the form of volunteering, civic engagement or public service is a selfless commitment to something larger than oneself, something that promotes the common good. Military service has been an honorable and traditional form of service, representing…
Question: What does this magnificent photograph have to do with melted bricks? Our work: When William Hazeltine and his wife Sarah built their homestead in 1778 they certainly did not have this image in their imagination. But we, 248 years…
A door-sill stone? At the mid-point of the east foundation wall. We Choose a Name The history of most of the land divided here in Canterbury by the first European owners begins in 1727. But rather than possess one of…
The First Facts On 22 November 2025 volunteer Bill Adams opened a study of the stone foundation on the south side of Abbott road near address 75. Also participating were Vanessa: researcher; Shaun Searah: metal detectorist; Gibson: assistant. It is…
Thanks for the memories! Pictures courtesy of Beth, Paul, Arnie, Jan, Alan, & Jayne! Where will we travel to next???
By Sue Russell, Historic Canterbury Women’s Committee In the rural landscape of 19th-century Canterbury, New Hampshire, the lives of Mary “May” F. Dearborn and Sarah “Angie” French are intertwined through shared roots, and the exchange of the very land beneath…
The Historic Canterbury Women’s Committee invites you to discover the vibrant heritage of our community through the personal stories that shaped it, such as “One Year in the Life of a Teenager in Canterbury, N.H.” which chronicles the 1916 diaries of…