Souvenir Of Farmington New Hampshire Booklet
Town of Farmington, NH
Souvenir booklet from the Farmington Old Home Week Association, 1904. the booklet contains photographs, general information, important dates, histories and biographies of interest all from Farmington, NH.
RKL-FHS
Farmington Old Home Week Association
August 1904
Collection Of Digital Photos Of The Celebration Of The Restoration Of The Recreation Building - Old Town Hall- Farmington Opera House
Digital Photo Collection
Collection of color digital photos of the celebration of the restoration of the Recreation Building, site of the Old Town hall & Farmington Opera House.
Size: Varied sizes, most are around 640X425.
Kyle Leach-FHS
Susan Locker
2006
Susan Loker
Digital Photo
Wooden Guest Book With Decorative Leather Binding
Record Book
Wooden guest book with decorative leather binding. Paper pages inside. Guests have signed the book on multiple pages inside from 1941 to 1950. Has a front, back, and spine wood panels. Interior panels are plain. Back panel is plain. Front panel and front spine have a checkerboard pattern. A short wood piece is applied to the upper left of the front panel and says " Guests," in lime green with a black outline. A short wood piece is applied to the lower right of the front panel and depicts a woman with long, dark hair. She is wearing a large yellow hat, a red dress, with white bodice, and a lime shawl. She also appears to have red shoes.
Size: 12"H x 8.5" W
Condition: Very Good
FHS-Kyle Leach
Unknown
Late 1940's
Dave Aubert
Metal Corkscrew With Wooden Cover
Metal Corkscrew with Wooden Cover. Item has black stamp or ink inscription. Item appears in good condition.
Inscription Reads:
'The X.L Saloon...Farmington N.H. ..."
Unknown
RKL-FHS
Dave Aubert
1963 John Fitzgerald Kennedy: A Memorial Album
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
A 1963, vinyl long-playing record It is labeled as a memorial album. The LP features the inaugural address, civil rights speech, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon Debate and the Cuban Crisis, Alliance for Progress, New Frontier, and Berlin Wall speeches. Other addresses and speeches are also included. <br /><br />A HistoryDotCom article about the LP reads:<br /><br /><div class="m-detail-header--container">
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<p><em>On December 12, 1963, a vinyl long-playing record (“LP”) called John Fitzgerald Kennedy: A Memorial Album sets a record for album sales. A total of 4 million copies sold in the first six days of its release.</em></p>
<p><em>The album, released on the Premier label, included recordings of some of Kennedy’s most memorable speeches, as well as memorial tributes to the president broadcast in the aftermath of his assassination on November 22, 1963. The recordings included excerpts from his inaugural address and his campaign debates with Richard Nixon as well as highlights from speeches on a variety of topics from civil rights to space to the <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/cuban-missile-crisis">Cuban Missile Crisis</a> of October 1962. Some of Kennedy’s most enduring quotes were captured on the album including “ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country” (from his inaugural) and “ich bin ein Berliner” (translated as “I too, am a Berliner”) from a speech he delivered at the <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/berlin-wall">Berlin Wall</a> during the height of the <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war">Cold War</a>.</em></p>
<p><em>Each copy of the album cost 99 cents and the proceeds went to the Joseph Kennedy, Jr., Foundation for Mental Retardation. Although Kennedy remains one of the most beloved and documented presidents in American history, the album itself has not yet garnered much value as a collector’s item. In 2006, a mint copy of the album fetched a mere $15.00 on several internet auction sites. This may be because most of Kennedy’s speeches are now accessible on the internet.</em></p>
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<br /><br /><br /><br />This item from the collection may only be seen by appointment. <br /><br />FHS- Kyle Leach
Premier Albums, Inc, New York
Premier Albums, Inc, New York
M. L. Corporation
1963
a vinyl long-playing record ("LP")
G.E. Mooney & Son Inc. Handle Display with Stand
Red Handle
Insscription:
"G.E. Mooney & Son Inc.
Turnings-Handles
Farmington NH"
Silver Metal Stand
Wheat Decoration
Inscription:
"Meriden Silver Plate Co"
G.E. Mooney & Son Inc.
FHS-Kyle Leach
Ceramic Souvenir Glass
White ceramic souvenir glass. Tumbler sized. Has an applied notation in letters saying "Souvenir, Farmington N.H." Behind the notation there is a floral spray on gold.. The upper rim also has a tiny gold band encompassing the entire circumference.
Size: 3.75" H x 2.75 W
Condition: Well used. Some of the floral spray has rubbed off with use.
FHS-Kyle Leach
Unknown
Letter sent to W.T.Thompson 1891
Letter sent to W.T.Thompson 1891
Fraud letter sent to Letter sent to W.T.Thompson 1891. Document has been put on new paper and retyped at a later period circa 1950's. No sign of original document this was taken from.
Unknown
Kyle-FHS
Compendium of the History of the Boston Post Cane, as related to Farmington NH
Compendium of the History of the Boston Post Cane, as related to Farmington NH
A collection of news articles, photos, photocopies of articles and photos collected together in a binder accounting for the history of the Boston Post Cane.
The canes, an estimated 431 in all, were presented to town Selectmen across northern New England by Newspaper publisher Edwin Grozier in 1909 to promote the now-defunct Boston Post.
Grizier proposed that the towns honor thier oldest residents by presenting them with the canes.
The canes were manufactured by J. F. Fradley & company of New York and made of Gaboon ebony shipped from the African Congo, according to a letter mailed out by Grazier to selectmen. The gold heads of the canes were engraved with the name of the Boston Post as well as the name of each town.
Unknown
Kyle-FHS
Farmington Town Pound
Farmington historic sites
Constructed in 1823 it replaced an earlier pound dating from 1802, only three years after the first town meeting. This type of structure was typically constructed in New Hampshire towns in the 18th and 19th centuries, and was used to contain stray livestock. The earliest pounds in New Hampshire were wooden structures; none of these are known to survive. Stone construction eventually became the norm. Typically pounds were of dry-laid fieldstone construction, roughly square in plan, with an opening containing a gate with a lintel above. These were simple structures built to meet a very practical requirement to formative agricultural communities. The Farmington Pound remains an important structure from the town's early agrarian period.
NW side of Pound Rd. 300 ft. north of the jct. of Ten Rod Rd., Farmington, New Hampshire
Coordinates 43°21′33″N 71°4′49″W
Town of Farmington
1993 National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form<br /><a href="http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Text/93000884.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Text/93000884.pdf</a><br /><br /> Strafford County Site on the National Register of Historic Places<br /><a href="http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/nh/Strafford/state.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/nh/Strafford/state.html<br /></a>
Farmington Historical Society
Owned by the Town of Farmington.
Maintained by the Farmington Historical Society
Location