ABOUT US and OUR SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

The Lisbon Area Historical Society is a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit that was founded in 1964, and preserves and promotes the rich history of Lisbon, Lyman, and Landaff, New Hampshire.

Our headquarters and museum are in the c. 1914 Historic Lisbon Congregational Church Parish House at 9 Depot Street, Lisbon, New Hampshire. The property is on the New Hampshire State Register of Historic Places.

Our museum collection includes artifacts from the 1700s to present day including photographs, postcards, stereoviews, diaries, journals, clothing and textiles, farming and household items, books, maps, genealogy, and collections about people, cemeteries, events, railroads, homes, farms, business and industry, recreation, medicine, organizations, churches, schools, government, military, music, and more….

OUR SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

BISHOP and allied families

BRONSON and allied families

BRUMMER and allied families (click here to see Ed Brummer’s caddy cap from Sunset Hill House Golf course c. 1920s)

GOUDIE, MOORE, and allied families (click here to see the 1870s keys to the old Moore Peg Mill)

McGREGOR, BOWLES, and allied families (click here to see a c. 1900 tintype of George G. and Lucretia Bray McGregor with their son, Carl)

ALVIN THURBER photographs and glass plates (click here to see Thurber’s photograph of the Old Man of the Mountain in Franconia Notch)

LISBON SCHOOL ARCHIVES and LYMAN and LANDAFF SCHOOLS (click here to see Clough Hill Schoolhouse in Lyman)

PAINTED STAGE CURTAINS

YOUNG-COBLEIGH TAVERN

Our Board of Trustees is a working board supported by LAHS members, volunteers, members of our community, and others in a wide area, and our nonprofit is sustained through financial donations, membership dues, donations to our collection, and grant funding for specific projects.

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