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The Lisbon Area Historical Society has for many years collected items pertaining to the history of Lisbon, Lyman, and Landaff, New Hampshire, and the surrounding area in the categories including people, businesses, government, farms, homes, cemeteries, genealogy, clothing, textiles, furniture, tools, photographs, post cards, stereoviews, maps, signage, painted curtains, paintings, instruments, books, souvenir china, organizations including the DAR, American Legion, VFW, Friends in Council, Grange, churches, train stations, mines, schools, events, utilities, homemaking, and more………Stop by our museum in the Historic Lisbon Congregational Church Parish House at 9 Depot Street in Lisbon and view our museum collection.
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Young-Cobleigh Tavern and barn, Route 302 in Lisbon, pictured above, is on the site of Lisbon’s Revolutionary War Fort and annual musters. Now a private home, the tavern was a famous stagecoach stop and is Lisbon’s oldest and most historic site. Artifacts pertaining to the tavern and families that lived there are now part of our collection, as they were given on loan by the Cobleigh-Hanno heirs in September of 2021 after being on display at the Sugar Hill Historical Museum in Sugar Hill, New Hampshire for decades. We are very grateful for this collaboration brought about by the Sugar Hill Historical Museum so that Lisbon’s artifacts could come back home.
c. 1870-1890s keys to the Moore Peg Mill which was located along the river behind today’s Boynton Block. The big fire of 1901 started in the peg mill and wiped out the west side of South Main Street from the bridge through the site of today’s Lisbon Inn.
Sleigh belonging to Hazel Ash Pickwick, quilt and drum from S. D. Morgan family, spinning wheel from Enos Bishop family.
LISBON TOWN HALL pictured c. 1903 with the James Riley Young and Charles Parker mansions on bluff above.
Josiah Bishop appointment to second lieutenant of the fourth company in the 25th regiment of militia in the State of N.H. signed by John Langdon, President of the State of N.H. at Portsmouth on July 25, 1785
c. 1824 genealogy sampler from the Beane Farm in Lyman that was wrought by Martha Gardner, Portland Maine