Sunday, October 20th, 2-5pm. Rain or Shine. Advance tickets only. Purchase by Thursday 17th. A benefit to restore the Peabody Gazebo at Glen Magna Farms. Glen Magna Farms’ gazebo, a focal point opposite the mansion’s curved veranda, was designed in 1840 and authentically reconstructed in 1989. This fundraiser will provide…
This episode has just been released. You can check it out at these various sites, or wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Spotify Website Recorded Monday, September 30, 2024 2:45 pm in Tapley Memorial Hall Podcast begins at 3:00 pm. Roughly 30-40 minutes discussion and 30-40minutes for audience Q&A…
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…
Sunday, August 11th, 1:30pm, Tapley Memorial Hall Summer 1774. The Port of Boston has been closed. The countryside is rising up, there is talk of raising minute companies alongside the regular militia, and British soldiers are appearing in Danvers. General Thomas Gage, newly appointed Royal Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony…
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…