Enfield Historical Society members and anyone interested in learning more about or joining the Enfield Historical Society are invited to our brief annual membership business meeting, followed by an entertaining, interesting, and educational public program (details will be posted here as soon as they are available). Members will receive business program details by mail. This[...]
Travel back with Tom Heath and the Enfield Historical Society to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to learn about life in Enfield at that time of change and how politics influenced the enforcers of laws and the impact those men’s actions had on everyday life. Learn how events during that time led to[...]
Join Enfield Historical Society member Jim Malley for a PowerPoint presentation on the Connecticut Tobacco Valley story in Enfield. The presentation will include a look at tobacco history, local Enfield farms, the tobacco process, employment, tobacco products and the current landscape of tobacco. This presentation is open to the public. Anyone with an interest in[...]
Do you remember the days before email, texts, and smartphones that follow us everywhere? The days when letters only came on paper - and just once a day? Letters filled with news, gossip, and important business? Travel back to those days with Mike Miller from the Enfield Historical Society. He will share letters from the[...]
Join Enfield Historical Society member Jim Malley for a PowerPoint presentation on Enfield Sports & the Enfield Athletic Hall of Fame. The presentation will include a look at Enfield History, sports origins, the Grey's Athletic Association & Bigelow Carpet teams, and Angelo Lamagna. The program will also examine how Enfield's population impacted high school and[...]
After the Battle of Saratoga, Massachusetts suddenly had thousands of British and German prisoners of war they desperately wanted to get rid of--and keep from rejoining the war. The solution? March them a thousand miles south to Charlottesville, of course! So began the strange march of the "Convention Army," made up of British regulars, German[...]
Join Enfield Historical Society member Peter Sorenson for a PowerPoint presentation on Embezzlement and Other Crimes in Thompsonville. The presentation will include a look at the rise and fall of the Spencer Bank; the local Poles Wladyslaw Szetela and Alexander Niemiec embezzling funds from store owners and the Polish National Home; and Thomas P. Clifford "borrowing"[...]
Join Jim Malley, Enfield Historical Society Member, on Thursday, April 16, 2026, at 6:00 p.m. at the Enfield Public Library, 104 Middle Road. He will provide a PowerPoint presentation titled "Enfield: Then and Now." He will share the past and present scenes of Enfield. Come see how Enfield has changed over the years and if[...]
After decades of only having one school building in town, four additional one room schoolhouses were built in 1754, including Wallop School. Our little red school was one of the last in the state to still be in use when it closed in 1947, and is one of even fewer still preserved in schoolhouse form.[...]
There are only three Shakers left in the world today. It was much different 200 years ago, when Shaker communities were founded all over New York, New England, and beyond. One of the largest was in Enfield, Connecticut. Michael Miller from the Enfield Historical Society will talk about who the Shakers are, when and how[...]