Porch Swing Open Mic

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Friday, August 16, 11:30am Friday Music in the Square presents The Porch Swing Live acoustic open mic on the Page House Porch. Bring your lunch and enjoy your friends making music. Bring your lunch. Rain or shine. We’ll move next door, into air conditioned Tapley Memorial Hall, if it is…

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Mrs. Day’s Ideal Baby Shoe Company

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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…

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DECADES OF ROCK!

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Tuesday, July 23rd Summer Beer Garden Music Series with DECADES OF ROCK!  Enjoy North Shore classic rock and roll while you wander through the stunning gardens and enjoy beer and cider from local brewers. $10 per person admission and a cash bar: I.D. REQUIRED 5:00 – 8:00pm. Tickets available on …

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National Historic Marker Day

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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…

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Anne L. Page Scholarship

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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…

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Trailblazer Scholarship

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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…

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President’s Letter 2024

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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…

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Gingerbread Town

15th Annual Parade of Trees – THANK YOU ALL!

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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…

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Historic sign returns to Berry Tavern

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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…

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