The main headquarters of the Historical Society of Cheshire County is 246 Main Street, Keene, NH. The Society’s Wyman Tavern Museum & Bruder House are located at 339 Main Street, Keene, NH| Phone: 603.352.1895
New Hampshire Now: A Photographic Diary of Life in the Granite State exhibit open through April 2022.
A Deep Presence: 13,000 Years Of Native American History
Books are now available in the Museum Store and online.
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Digital Archive Access
Search the Community History Archive, where you can locate thousands of digitized pages of the New Hampshire Sentinel (1799-1889) and the Keene Evening Sentinel (1890-1945). The Historical Society partnered with the Keene Public Library, New Hampshire State Library, and the Sentinel itself to digitize Keene’s historic newspaper and to make it available for public use.
DISCOVER the murals and the local history behind each one on our Walldogs Mural education page.
Kids can RESEARCH more about local history on our ‘Walldogs for Kids’ page
PARTICIPATE in a ‘history on the streets’ experience by taking one of our Magical History guided tours
Upcoming Events
Closed for Staff Development
January 1 - January 17
African American Soldiers and Sailors of New Hampshire During the American Revolution with Author Glenn Knoblock
February 23 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Your Old House with Becky Barton
March 19 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Annual Meeting and presentation: Steam Train USA
April 6 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm