Please join us for Coffin Craziness presented by Michael Miller of the Enfield Historical Society. In the 1880s, Thompsonville’s New England Glass Burial Case Company manufactured glass coffins. Their products were not unique. America’s inventors designed and sometimes successfully manufactured and sold a dizzying variety of devices for preserving your favorite family members for eternity[...]
Join Susan Bigelow of the Enfield Historical Society as she walks you through the unique family history resources held both at the Old Town Hall and online. Discover photographs, school materials, small business documents, military photos, and extensive holdings on the town's major employers that can help link you to the lives of your ancestors.[...]
Please Join historian Bill Fournier and the Enfield Historical Society for an historical look at the harvesting of timber and the various uses from early colonial times and on into the Industrial Revolution. Connecticut Valley locales, near and far are explored, and the transportation methods and tools that were used are shown. Local area sawmills[...]
Did you know that the first bridge across the Connecticut River in Connecticut was in Enfield? Or that the earliest bridges were all privately owned? Or that they were eventually "freed" by the State of Connecticut? Have you heard the story of the exciting rescue of Hosea Keach when Enfield Bridge was washed away in[...]
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[...]
The Old Town Hall Museum is the Enfield Historical Society’s flagship museum. Here you will find three floors of exhibits telling Enfield’s story from the days of dinosaurs to today. Thousands of artifacts, photographs, and documents are on display or are in our publicly accessible archives for you to see. Our friendly volunteers are here[...]
Join the Enfield Historical Society for another entertaining, interesting, and educational program. Details will be posted here as soon as available. Details coming soon! This presentation is open to the public. Anyone with an interest in history is welcome to attend. The Enfield Historical Society is an all-volunteer non-profit organization that has preserved and shared[...]
The Old Town Hall Museum is the Enfield Historical Society’s flagship museum. Here you will find three floors of exhibits telling Enfield’s story from the days of dinosaurs to today. Thousands of artifacts, photographs, and documents are on display or are in our publicly accessible archives for you to see. Our friendly volunteers are here[...]
The Old Town Hall Museum is the Enfield Historical Society’s flagship museum. Here you will find three floors of exhibits telling Enfield’s story from the days of dinosaurs to today. Thousands of artifacts, photographs, and documents are on display or are in our publicly accessible archives for you to see. Our friendly volunteers are here[...]
The Old Town Hall Museum is the Enfield Historical Society’s flagship museum. Here you will find three floors of exhibits telling Enfield’s story from the days of dinosaurs to today. Thousands of artifacts, photographs, and documents are on display or are in our publicly accessible archives for you to see. Our friendly volunteers are here[...]
Built about 1800 to replace an earlier schoolhouse, the Wallop School Museum was one of the last one-room schools in use in Connecticut. Today it is a place to learn what school was like in the days before the Internet or even electricity and plumbing. Our friendly volunteers are here to help you practice your[...]
