Programs

Lancaster Historical Society Programs

Program overviews and video recordings

2025

• Women and Children in the Mills – March 2025

2024

• Slavery in New England – November 2024
• The Tragic Tale of Bathsheba Spooner- October 2024
• General Marquis de Lafayette: A Revolutionary Hero- June 2024
• The Graveyard Girls – Feb 2024

2023

• Let the Cider Flow…… Taverns in Early New England – Nov 2023
• Project Mishoon: Underwater archaeology project of the Hassanamisco Nipmuc Band – Oct 2023
• Lancaster’s Old Common and the story of Native Son Horace W.S. Cleveland – May 2023
• Hysteria in Salem and the Mysterious Legend of Lancaster’s John Willard – Feb 2023

2022

• Annual Volunteer Appreciation Holiday Luncheon – December 2022
• History of Fort Devens and Lancaster’s South Post – November 2022
• Herbert H. Hosmer Jr.: A Lancastrian Original – October 2022
• “Meeting of the Waters”: Nashua River Watershed Presentation – May 2022
• A Virtual Visit with the American Antiquarian Society Presentation – March 2022

2021

• The “Granite Kiss”: A History of Stone Wall and Stone Wall Building in New England – October 2021
• Freedom’s Way Hidden Treasures Program – Featuring New Historical Sign and the Twenty-Two Sites of the Early Lancaster Settlement Self-Guided Tour Map – May 2021
• Lancaster’s Thayer Family Series – January 2021

2019

• The Lancaster Historical Commission held a tour of the Thayer Mansion and a lecture on its history – October 2019

2017

• Tour of the Old Lancaster Burial Grounds – October 2017

2016

• Bulfinch Church Clock Winding & Maintenance – August 2016

2011

• Toy Cupboard Theater & Museums –  February 2011
• Hosmer Collection Doll House Descriptions – February 2011