PLEASE WAIT! Before you sell or auction off local artifacts, kindly consider donating one or all to be included in our lasting museum collection to share with others forever. Once historic items leave town, we will most likely never see them again, and that piece of history will be lost forever. Any item donated will be safely archived in appropriate acid-free storage or safely displayed. Our Archivist, Dorothy Wiggins, is a former Winterthur Museum librarian. Every item received is taken care of by Dot: cleaned, accessioned and added to our database, and photographed or scanned so it will be included in our whole digitized museum collection. AND, your donation may be tax-deductible.

The Lisbon Area Historical Society continues to welcome donations to our collection of documents, paintings, photographs and other items that will add to the historical record of life in our area over the years.  We encourage anyone who has such items  - including those relating to local families, businesses, schools and special events - to contact a representative of the Society to discuss the possibility of making a donation to the Society's collection.   Interested persons can contact us at lisbonareahistoricalsociety@gmail.com or (603) 838-2003 and PO Box 6, Lisbon NH 03585.

The Society is particularly grateful to have received a large donation of documents, photographs, journals, and letters from the Bishop and allied families which includes well-preserved documents from the 1700s through the early 1900s.  The Society also has a large donation of early documents, photographs, journals, letters, and artifacts on loan from the Brummer and allied families.  Both the Bishop and Brummer collections are from some of the earliest Lisbon, Lyman, and Landaff families. In 2012 the Society received a large donation of very early Landaff papers including many pertaining to the Bronson and allied families. The Society also received a large amount of annotated photographs and documents from the Goudie family. Most recently the Society received a very large collection on loan from the Cobleigh-Hanno heirs connected to Lisbon’s historic Young-Cobleigh Tavern which is on the site of Lisbon’s Revolutionary War fort and annual musters. The collection had been in possession of the Sugar Hill Historical Museum in Sugar Hill, N.H. for decades, and the Society is grateful that Sugar Hill Historical Museum brought about the transfer of these most precious, early Lisbon artifacts.