The Collection’s Beginnings

The Library’s New Hampshire Room housed the Society’s collections of documents, scrapbooks, photographs, ephemera and artifacts. The space proved inadequate and for nearly two decades, the collection has resided in a caged area of the records storage room of Town Offices, the only municipal building with a fire suppression system. 

The former Curator, Priscilla Leavitt, accessioned those materials accepted by the Historical Society to provide intellectual and physical control over them, and re-housed them in archival quality enclosures. There are regularly changing exhibits in the Clerk / Tax Collector’s Building so all can see a sampling of the collections and learn about North Hampton.