New Exhibit opening on Fair Day! Visit the Elkins Memorial building on Fair Day. Our new Canterbury Historical Society exhibit will feature items from our collection not seen in years, and some not ever seen! The show is called, “Historical…
New Exhibit Opening On Fair Day! We call it “Historical Society Eclectic” and we will be exhibiting a wide variety of items from our Archives not seen in years (if ever) including paintings, Canterbury made objects, poetry, photographs and memorabilia…
IMPORTANT CIVIL WAR GIFT RECEIVED A Civil War “Dog Tag” belonging to Henry W. McDaniel has been donated to the Historical Society. McDaniel was listed in Lyford’s History of Canterbury as having enlisted on September 17, 1862. His “tag” identifies…
A Civil War “Identification Tag” which belonged to Henry W. McDaniel has been donated to the Historical Society. McDaniel was listed in Lyford’s History of Canterbury as having enlisted on September 17, 1862. His “tag” identifies him as being attached…
Canterbury Historical Society Our mission: To preserve Canterbury’s history and sense of community. We began to slowly return to “normal life” in 2022 after our shared experience of living with Covid-19 restrictions for the past couple of years. In spite…
At Canterbury’s upcoming town meeting, we will be considering a warrant article regarding the Dissolution of Shaker Regional School District. We have in our Archives, a copy of the final report from the first time a dissolution study was conducted back…
Strategic Planning Meeting Held The Trustees held a strategic planning meeting in January in order to assess various aspects of their mission, current status and future initiatives. As in the past, discussions prompted a range of ideas and possible solutions.…
Canterbury, New Hampshire The Boston Post Cane tradition was established in 1909 by the Boston Post Newspaper. A special cane was presented to the Board of Selectmen in 431 towns in New England, to be presented as an honor to…
EXHIBIT TIMES POSTED We had record numbers come view our latest exhibit, “Luther Cody Canterbury Collection” on Fair Day. We will be open on Saturdays September 17 and 24th and October 1st, 8th and 15th from 10:00 to noon. There…
NEW INITIATIVEs PLANNED FOR 2022 The Trustees of the historical society have decided to re-purpose their meeting /work room in the Archives section of the Library into a Research Center. New workstations will provide space for volunteers to identify, describe…