New Boston Historical Society
New Boston, New Hampshire
Gunner and Molly Stark Cannon

Welcome to the website of the New Boston Historical Society!

Navigating this website
Look under the cannon logo in the top left corner of each page (or page bottom if you're using a smartphone) for:

50th Anniversary mirror
Fifty-plus years of looking backwards!
The Historical Society was incorporated in 1968, and we celebrated our 50th anniversary in 2018.
The "objects in mirror" are the New Boston Town Hall and the Old Engine House.

Latest news:
11/11/2024 We updated the Veterans Monument page for Veterans Day.
11/07/2024 We updated our calendar with events for Veterans Day, an Open House, and the first half of 2025.
11/01/2024 New page: "Philbrick's White Mountain Oil"
9/01/2024 New page: "Sunday Driver Rock"
8/01/2024 Added a 1958 map of New Boston including residents' names to the Map page.
7/01/2024 New page: The 1971 "End of the Rainbow" rock festival
5/25/2024 New page: "Lacourse — a French-Canadian Family"
3/14/2024 New page: "Electricity comes to New Boston"
2/28/2024 New Boston students who will graduate from high school this year should note the May 3rd deadline for our scholarship application!
2/24/2024 New page: "New Boston — the Hollywood of the East?"
1/26/2024 New page: "Old Garages & Gas Stations"
12/10/2023 We've added Barbara Shobe's transcriptions of the New Boston Argus from the 1890s to "New Boston's Newspapers".
11/09/2023 Officers and Directors were elected at the 2023 Annual Meeting.
10/29/2023 New page: "Joseph Reed Whipple & the Valley View Farm"
8/12/2023 New page: "The Names of New Boston's Roads"
7/08/2023 New page: "The History of Town Farm Road"
6/16/2023 New page: "The Plantin Family"
5/06/2023 New page: "Veterans Monument Update Project" — we need your help!
5/03/2023 New page: "A Visit to the General Stark House"
4/15/2023 New page: "Celebrating 100 Years of Music" — a 19th-Century Pipe Organ
3/07/2023 New page: "Behind the Door" articles from the New Boston Beacon
3/04/2023 Added "Those Wonderful Years 1763-1963", a book written for New Boston's Bi-Centennial, to our Links page.
2/10/2023 New page: "Robert O. Fuller and New Boston in the 1830s & 40s"
10/29/2022 New page: "Colorizing Historical Photos"
9/23/2022 New page: "The House That Went to Cape Cod"
7/28/2022 New page: "James Todd's Blacksmith Shop"
7/04/2022 New page: "The Legend of the Ghost Train"
6/03/2022 New page: "The Great Flood of 1936"
5/12/2022 Evening presentations resume in May — see our Event calendar for details.
2/21/2022 New page: "Merrill Todd"
1/30/2022 New page: "Smith Family Website" documenting the family of New Boston's first settler
1/13/2022 New page: "New Boston Skiway" — our town's first rope tow
12/18/2021 New page: "New Boston's bridges"
11/23/2021 New page: "Snowplow — Plowing New Boston's Roads"
10/12/2021 New page: "New Boston's telephones" (10-digit dialing begins this month!)
9/18/2021 Visit the Historical Society table at the 9/18 NB Farmers Market to see our "New Boston Schools" exhibit and bell!
7/16/2021 We updated the "Joe English" page now that NBAFS is New Boston Space Force Station.
7/04/2021 New page: "New Boston's 4th of July parades 1947-1963"
6/30/2021 New page: "Firemen's Musters"
6/03/2021 The museum is open to visitors once again, Thursdays 12:00 noon to 2PM. We encourage visitors to wear masks.
5/15/2021 New page: "John McNeil and the Battle of the Margaretta 1775"
4/22/2021 We added stories about Bill and Shirley Mulligan to the "Memories of New Boston" page.
2/27/2021 New page: "The Old Blacksmith Shop"
1/31/2021 Now online: "Under the Fire House Roof" — a history of fire fighting in New Boston from 1845-1989 by Rena Davis
1/14/2021 New page: "Winter Sledding in New Boston"
12/12/2020 New page: "Sargent's Goffstown-New Boston bus"
9/18/2020 New page: "New Boston's Whipple Free Library"
8/16/2020 New page: "Skiing in New Boston"
7/31/2020 We apologize that our website was down briefly due to too much traffic. We've upgraded to a service with 10X the capacity.
7/24/2020 New page: "The Boston Post cane"
7/19/2020 New page: "Bells of New Boston"
7/09/2020 New page: "New Boston's Newspapers"
6/17/2020 We added a list of New Boston's Revolutionary War soldiers to the "Links" page.
2/08/2020 New page: "A Wagonload of Soapstone"
1/25/2020 We added Daniel Ferson's 1841 memoirs to the "Memories of New Boston" page.

Hours: The museum is open Thursdays, Noon – 2:00 PM and by special arrangement.

New Boston Historical Society
Wason Memorial Building
2 Central Square, New Boston
Mailing address: P.O. Box 595, New Boston, NH 03070
Phone: (603) 487-2526 – We check voicemail every Thursday.
E-mail: newbostonhistoricalsociety@gmail.com
David Woodbury, NBHS President

Website last updated November 15, 2024.
If you have suggestions or questions about our website, please e-mail the editor, Dan Rothman: townfarm@comcast.net