Overview of the Goshen Historical Society Collection
The Goshen Historical Society collection contains items in the following categories. This list is not inclusive and is only intended to give a representation of our historical resources. Please contact us with requests for information about specific items or family names.
Artifacts: Medals, Bottles, Grave marker, Tablecloth, Apron, Baby dress, Wheelbarrows
Books:
Histories of Goshen by Walter R. Nelson: 1903, 1957
A Supplement to the History of Goshen by Doris Nelson and Harry W. Wasasier
Foundations of Old Goshen by Arthur W. Nelson & Ronald G. Whitney
The Building of the Goshen Meetinghouse by Ronald G. Whitney
Family Bibles
Novels and Poetry by local authors
Autograph books
Ephemera: Letters, Memoirs, Posters, Church issues, Town inventories, Old Home Day programs, Genealogy notes, Deeds, Mt. Sunapee Grange
Family collections: Gunnison, Nelson, Tandy
Glass Plate Negatives: People and places of Goshen
Goshen Annual Town Reports: 1886 – 1997
Ledgers
Magazines: Soonipi: 1978 – 2010; New Hampshire Troubadour: 1948, 1951
Maps
Photographs
Families: Baker, Nelson, Russell, Farr, Maxham, Stacy, Tandy, Pike, Hooper. And many more.
Goshen houses and scenes, Plank houses, Camp Soangetaha at Rand Pond, Bicentennial and Military photographs