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Discover the history of Acworth New Hampshire and the people who shaped it.
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The Acworth New Hampshire Historical Society is a non-profit organization focused on preserving our town's history and making it accessible to everyone in ways that advance knowledge and inspire curiosity about all the people, places, and events that have shaped Acworth.
** NEWS UPDATE - 05/22/2025 **
GOOD NEWS FOR THE VILLAGE STORE
The Acworth Historical Society is thrilled to announce that our Village Store will get a new roof this year! We’ve just received a $10,000 matching grant from the 1772 Foundation in partnership with the N.H. Preservation Alliance. Matching funds will come from the Acworth Community Charitable Trust and the Historical Society’s members and donors. This year the 1772 Foundation awarded grants totaling $125,000 to seventeen nonprofit organizations in New Hampshire. Funding supports a range of projects to preserve historic buildings: new roofs, masonry repointing, trim repair, paint, window restoration, repairs to a historic dam, and fire detection and security systems. Awards range from $2,500 to the grant maximum of $10,000. Other grant recipients include Historic Harrisville, the NH Historical Society in Concord, the Enfield Shaker Museum, and the Jackson House in Portsmouth, built in 1664.
The Village Store grant is a critical first step in a multi-phase project to rehabilitate the building for flood resilience and energy efficiency. Acworth scored high in grant criteria such as the uniqueness or significance of the resource, imminence or severity of threat to the building, and the availability of additional funding. The Village Store is unique. Small general stores are disappearing all around us: Marlow, Unity, Gilsum, and Cornish stores have closed in the past five or ten years. Village stores that were originally constructed for that purpose are even rarer. As for the imminence of threat, we’ve seen it in 2021 and 2023 and we’re crossing our fingers right now that the Bowers Brook flood remediation project holds steady. As for the availability of funds, the Historical Society will apply in June to LCHIP, the Land and Community Heritage Investment Program that provided grants for the church, library, horse sheds, and the store itself. We’re counting on town-wide support too, and proud to say that Acworth has a remarkable record of support for historic buildings.
To see news from the Historical Society, attend our meetings, or make a tax deductible donation visit our website at acworthnhhistorical.org. To read more about other 1772 Foundation grant recipients and see what illustrious company we’re in, visit our good friends at the Preservation Alliance, nhpreservation.org.
NEXT ACWORTH HISTORICAL MEETING IS 6/09/2025
Please join us at 4:30 PM at the Town Hall if you can! If the weather might pose an issue - please come and check here on our website to see if the meeting is postponed. A message will be posted here.
PRESERVING OUR PAST: HISTORICAL SOCIETY PHOTO GALLERY - Visit the collections page to see more photos!
This schoolhouse was known as the "County Schoolhouse", and was built around 1803. It sits beside Tamarack Farm to the west. Some of the teachers even boarded at the farmhouse.
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