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Highlights of New Hampshire History

At the New Hampshire Historical Society Museum

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Our museum welcomes teachers and learners of all ages!

Our programs generally servemore than 20,000 people eachyear.

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Enjoy this preview of what you may see during your visit.

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Come to us with your questions and ideas about the history of our state.

(With permission: City of Montreal, Records Management and Archives)

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View a few of our intriguing objects andimages.

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Consider what artifacts can tell us …

…about the people who used them.

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Art, too, can teach usabout our past.

What does this painting show, for example?

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Here are a few other objects and images you may see during your visit.

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A Sketch of Pre-Contact Native American Life

Study the sketch carefully!

Is the life depicted truly“pre-contact”?

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A Re-Created Corner of George Jaffrey’s Parlor

What waslife like forthis wealthy Portsmouth merchant family?

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New Hampshire in the Revolutionary War

See artifactsfrom the Battle of Bunker Hill and the Battle of Bennington!

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The “Truck” of the 1700s and Early 1800s

An Oxcart

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The Vehicle That Opened the West

A Concord Coach

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New Hampshire in theCivil War

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New Hampshire Inventiveness

Patents and Prototypes

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The Willey House in Crawford Notch

A Thomas Hill Painting

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Our Stairwell to the Upper Gallery

A “Mountain Hike”

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A General Store

Goods & Prices, circa 1905

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The Museum Store

Where you may shop…

Goods & Prices,circa…today!

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We’ll see you soon!

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Images and Objects from

New Hampshire through Many EyesAn Exhibit at

The New Hampshire Historical Society Museum

6 Eagle Square, Concord, NH(Background photograph by Linda Wilson)

© 2008 Christopher MacLeod for the New Hampshire Historical Society