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Newmarket Historical Society
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HISTORIC PHOTO TOUR
Newmarket, NH
Antique lovers would kill to have a key. This pre-Civil War stone schoolhouse
is stuffed to the rafters with fascinating artifacts of the mill town on the Lamprey.
Do yourself a favor and join the Newmarket Historical Society and wander this
fascinating archive from a Seacoast town rich in history
Newmarket Historical Society & Museum
Stone School Museum. Granite St
Newmarket, NH 03857
Open Thursdays 2-4pm in Season
603-659-7420.
 For 30 years we intended to visit , but never quite got there. The New Market
Historical Society is open to the public just two slim hours a week -- and our
hours in the riverside town never quite coincided. But it was worth the wait.
L. Forbes Getchell himself gave the tour. A former Newmarket dentist, now in
his 80s, Getchell was among the society founders in 1966, and also created the
1st Newmarket Colonial Milita that meets here still.
Back then the old stone church and schoolhouse at the top of the steep.t hill
in the center of town were for sale. The Stone Church became a restaurant and
bar, and for a dollar, the two-sotry 1843 stone school became home to the historic
society and museum.
 Like most, the Newmarket museum is a "gramma's attic" of artifacts, documents,
furniture, tools, whatnots and curios. The center of the room is filled with chairs
ringed with glass cases. A printing press hunkers by the door. We poked through
old Edison audio cylinders, postcards, maps and portraits. Getchell produced an
ancient light bulb and we found a perfectly new "old" child's shoe. You name it,
the museum has it -- somewhere. Remnants of the old factory town fill every shelf
and drawer.
Upstairs what used to be the school bathroom is now brimful of ancient clothes.
Next door is the large classroom named in honor of Getchell, whose wife is curator
and author of the Newmarket town history. The second floor is crammed with tools,
wagons, old household appliances, an early boat, drums, signs -- even a fearsome
hair curling machine from the dawn of electricity. The ceilings are tin, with
a leak here and there, and the old blackboards are still on the wall. In one corner,
a mannequin teacher presents an endless lesson to two doll children. You could
wander through the museum for days, and not see everything. That, in time, is
exactly what we hope to do. -- JDR
All photos by J. Dennis Robinson. Copyright (c) SeacoastNH.com
Originally posted 2001
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