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Salem State Professor Andrew Darien will be discussing via Facebook LIVE the history of the Towne Family, whose patriarch, William Towne brought his young family from England to Salem Village, now Danvers, MA. Rebecca Nurse, who was hanged during the 1692 Witch Trials hysteria was William’s daughter.  Professor Darien will…

This will be a Facebook Live event. Tune into our Facebook Channel at 2:00 on Wednesday August 19. Dan Gagnon will return as our speaker for the month. He will give us a presentation on local sites in Danvers where people can walk to. The sites he will discuss are…

Facebook LIVE event Tune into our Facebook channel at 2:00 on Wednesday July 15 or watch our Discover Danvers Roundtable on YouTube! Artifacts come to life through the eyes of volunteer researchers from Salem State University. Unfortunately, we will not have live audience participation nor a moderated discussion this spring….

On June 24th we will have a video presentation on our Facebook of Paul Harty. He is a local musician who knows about the history on pop music and culture. This will be on our Facebook page at 2:00 as a LIVE video recording. This is a great opportunity to…

Since we couldn’t have our 3rd Grade students here for their field trip, we decided to bring the field trip to everyone through this video! We have Sheila Cooke-Kayser, our education chair, and Amy Driscoll, our curator volunteer discussing the Discover Danvers Artifacts. There is so much to be learned…

Matt Martin, our Buildings and Grounds Manager produced this video in celebration of Tea 250th. He discusses plants and how some of these herbs can be used for making tea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yx7pBdalUY

Sarah's Virtual Tea Party Today we celebrated the 250th anniversary of the tea party on the roof of the Page House hosted by Sarah Page. We went back in time, met Sarah, and had some tea on the lawn. Posted by Danvers Historical Society on Wednesday, May 20, 2020

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Danvers celebrates Patriot’s Day with health crisis in mind. Read full story here TheSalemNews_20200429_06_0

  Commemorating PATRIOT’S DAY, April 19, 1775 The Danvers Alarm List mustered at 9am on the Training Field Monday, April 20, 2020. A  procession of automobiles from Operation Troop Support and the Historical Society traveled through Danvers neighborhoods to honor our Revolutionary War Heroes at several cemeteries, where the Alarm…

Facebook LIVE event Artifacts come to life through the eyes of volunteer researchers from Salem State University with audience participation in a moderated discussion. Participants will be able to carefully handle and closely view several objects from the Society’s collections. Discover Danvers Roundtable is a collaboration of expert and novice…