Tuesday, September 17th we welcome author Eric Jay Dolin. A co-sponsored event between the Friends of Danvers Library and Danvers Historical Society. The heroic story of the founding of the U.S. Navy during the Revolution has been told before, yet missing from most maritime histories of America’s first war is…
Tuesday, June 18th, sponsored by Winchester Savings Bank. Kick off the 2024 Summer Beer Garden Music Series with an Open Mic Night MC’d by Ron Sarro, ronsarro59@gmail.com, president of Lynnfield Historical Society. Join the fun and bring your talents to the veranda at historic Glen Magna Farms. Reach out to…
Sunday, June 16, 2:00pm The Essex Harmony, a local choral group that began in 2006, will be performing their annual Summer concert in the Social Hall of the Maple Street Congregational Church in Danvers. “Spring Back, Spring Forward” will share song selections from our early roots in the New England…
Wednesday, May 15th we welcome Florence Feldman-Wood exploring Spinning Wheels and Textile Tools. Using descriptions from the period we will look at the tools and processes involved in creating garments and household textiles from wool and flax. The tools needed to prepare the fibers and then the types of spinning…
Mother’s Day weekend. Danvers Historical Society’s Plant Sale will take place for only two days! Saturday and Sunday, May 11th and 12th, from 9am to 1pm in the Glen Magna Farms parking lot 29 Ingersoll St Danvers MA. Bring home a piece of Glen Magna Farms to that special mother…
Mother’s Day weekend. Saturday and Sunday, May 11th and 12th, from 9am to 1pm, Glen Magna Farms parking lot 29 Ingersoll St Danvers MA. Danvers Historical Society’s Plant Sale will take place for only two days! Bring home a piece of Glen Magna Farms to that special mother in your…
Friday, April 26th beginning at 11am. Join The Danvers Historical Society at the Jeremiah Page House, 11 Page street, as we participate with other communities across the nation for a day of service and history. Help to beautify your community by giving back and cleaning local historical markers. After cleaning…
Danvers is home to the New England Homes for the Deaf. Tom Boudrow, Director of Outreach, Communications and Business Development, will be presenting NEHD’s history and the impact Helen Keller’s visit had on the organization. New England Homes for the Deaf (NEHD), founded in 1901, is a life plan community…
A new exhibit, February 19-23, 2024, hosted by Danvers Historical Society volunteers Sheila Cooke-Kayser and Joyce Cranford will explore the legacy of Danvers businesswoman Adra Day and the Ideal Baby Shoe Co., her business empire that supplied millions of babies around the world with the shoes they would take their…
The Anne L. Page Scholarship is administered annually by the Danvers Historical Society and funded by its members. This scholarship honors Anne L. Page, who opened the first kindergarten in Essex County at the Jeremiah Page House in Danvers Square. Around 1850 she opened a school for very young children…
Members of the Danvers Historical Society present the Trailblazer Scholarship to a Danvers High School graduate enrolled in a secondary program. The Trailblazer scholarship acknowledges family trailblazers throughout the Town’s history, no matter how recent or from which previous generation in the student’s heritage. Trailblazers take risks and forge a…
Fast forward 134 years to 2023 and how far we’ve come. The Society is now the successful owner and guardian of eight important historic buildings on nearly 20 acres, including the arboretum and incredible floral displays of Glen Magna. Our membership has bloomed to almost 300, and our Board of…