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Highlights of New Hampshire History. At the New Hampshire Historical Society Museum. Our museum welcomes teachers and learners of all ages!. Our programs generally serve more than 20,000 people each year. Enjoy this preview of what you may see during your visit.
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Highlights of New Hampshire History At the New Hampshire Historical Society Museum
Our museum welcomes teachers and learners of all ages! Our programs generally servemore than 20,000 people eachyear.
Come to us with your questions and ideas about the history of our state. (With permission: City of Montreal, Records Management and Archives)
Consider what artifacts can tell us … …about the people who used them.
Art, too, can teach usabout our past. What does this painting show, for example?
Here are a few other objects and images you may see during your visit.
A Sketch of Pre-Contact Native American Life Study the sketch carefully! Is the life depicted truly“pre-contact”?
A Re-Created Corner of George Jaffrey’s Parlor What waslife like forthis wealthy Portsmouth merchant family?
New Hampshire in the Revolutionary War See artifactsfrom the Battle of Bunker Hill and the Battle of Bennington!
An Oxcart The “Truck” of the 1700s and Early 1800s
A Concord Coach The Vehicle That Opened the West
Patents and Prototypes New Hampshire Inventiveness
A Thomas Hill Painting The Willey House in Crawford Notch
A “Mountain Hike” Our Stairwell to the Upper Gallery
A General Store Goods & Prices, circa 1905
The Museum Store Where you may shop… Goods & Prices,circa… today!
© 2008 Christopher MacLeod for the New Hampshire Historical Society Images and Objects fromNew Hampshire through Many EyesAn Exhibit atThe New Hampshire Historical Society Museum6 Eagle Square, Concord, NH(Background photograph by Linda Wilson)