Updated Exhibit is open Monday, Wednesday and Friday beginning August 16, 10am to noon at Tapley Memorial Hall, 13 Page Street. Additional artifacts and information has been added to last winter’s exhibit. Did you wear Ideal Baby Shoes? Did you know someone who worked for Ideal? Did you live in…
Anne Lemist Page, born in 1828, opened the first kindergarten in Essex County at the Jeremiah Page House in Danvers Square. She believed Plato’s words, “. . . power of children’s love of play should be used in education”, and in Froebel’s philosophy of creating fun ways to learn. Anne,…
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 path to make better lives for their families. They arrive in what we now know as Danvers from all over the…
Danvers Historical Society members gathered at the Jeremiah Page House for the fourth annual National Historic Marker Day on Friday, April 26. The cleaning project took place April 26th between 11a.m. and 1pm at the Jeremiah Page House, cleaning Anne L. Page’s suffrage marker and continued to The Plains and…
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…
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…
Thank you to everyone who made this event a success! SEE the video below. Thank you to our 2023 sponsors: Silver Sponsors: Cummings Community Giving, M&T Bank, Northeast Community Bank Bronze Sponsors: SalemFive Bank, John M. Ross & Son Inc., IRA Toyota Event supporters: Atlantic Semiconductor, The Saluto Family, A.L. Prime…
Owners Joe and Ashley Bono welcomed back a large wooden sign that was crafted in 1898 and hung outside the original Berry Tavern until the site closed in 1930. As of this week, the sign is on display in a glass case for customers to see as they enter the…
I wonder what the founders of the Danvers Historical Society in 1889 would think if they could see into the future at the many incredible accomplishments their brainchild has accomplished and the many obstacles we have confronted and overcome to fulfill their vision of preserving the History of Danvers for…
Land exchange at Glen Magna underway after 40-year delay By Caroline Enos | Staff Writer , September 21, 2023 DANVERS — Two parcels of land at Glen Magna Farms and Endicott Park are finally switching ownership between the town and the Danvers Historical Society — 40 years after the effort…