Old Meeting House, 1220 Battle Street, Webster, NH

The Society for the Preservation of the Old Meeting House in Webster, NH doing business as Webster Historical Society  d/b/a certificate
(Mailing address:   Webster Historical Society, 1215 Battle Street, Webster, NH 03303


2024 Calendar  (watch for updates!)

  • May 18, Saturday, 8am to 2pm, Town-wide and Old Meeting House Yard Sale
  • May 17 or 24: Memorial Day Ceremony at the Old Meeting House
  • June 5, Wednesday, Round Robin at the Old Meeting House
  • July and August, Sundays, 1-3 pm: Old Meeting House Open House
  • July 20, Saturday, 1 pm at  Webster Town Hall :  Sheryl Faye: Helen Keller
  • August 17, Saturday, Old Home Day, Pearson Park and Old Meeting House
  • August 18, Sunday, Old Home Day church Service – Meeting House?

History Committee and the Next History Book

The book Webster, New Hampshire History, 1933-1983 was published early the next year by the Webster History Committee.  Members are listed in the book itself as Mabel Anderson, Patricia Inman, Marjorie Blanchette, Marion Jones, Edna Frost, Elizabeth Pearson and Beverly Russell, few of whom are still alive.  The older history books are out of copyright and may be found in the archive.

The Society frequently appointed committees to work on various projects, though there is no definitive documentation on the History Committee.  Each of these persons listed for the history book were members of the Society, so it is possible that a committee was formed within the Society and took the lead on this project.  It is also possible that the Town appointed the History Committee, coincidentally made up of Society members.  A third possibility is that these committee members simply decided among themselves to produce this book – something similar happened when a group of women convened to produce the bicentennial quilt that now hangs in Town Hall.  In preparation for the next book, this History Committee continued to publish annual town histories for the next 30 years.

The year after the publication of the book, this committee created a warrant article “to see if the Town will vote to accept the sum of $1,000 from the Webster Town History Committee to establish a trust fund for the actual printing and binding of a future new Webster History in the year 2033 or later, with both principal and interest expendable.” The town voted in the affirmative.  There is no evidence that the town ever voted to increase this fund.

Now the quandary and the questions:  this committee no longer exists; the trust fund contains just over $10,000; the next history book is due out in early 2034.  Are the Webster residents interested in a new history book?  Does anyone have well-documented information about this now-defunct committee?  Current Society members have assumed that the Society would take the lead and have started work, though other configurations for such a committee are possible.  The Society sincerely requests your opinions!  Please send an email to webster1860@gmail.com, or use the Contact Us area on this website.

History reports for 1984-2014 and 2019-2022


The Society is serious about Genealogy: see the Genealogy page for the latest.


Houses  report, (some with questionable dates) containing information from the 1983 history book and public tax records.  Please contact the Society if you have additional information and photos about your house.


Webster Historical Society received A New Hampshire Preservation Alliance Recognition watch video on YouTube.


The  public area Artifacts folder of the Webster Digital Archive contains thousands of historic photos, many diaries, letters, and lately, several oral histories from the 1970s.  The public area also contains all the Town of Webster Annual Reports, and the available Town Hall Meeting minutes.  (NH towns’ Annual Reports may also be found on the UNH digital archive website in searchable PDF format.


The Old Meeting House was listed in the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1964, placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, and added to NH Register of Historic Places in July, 2020.  It is also registered with GuideStar.



This website was last updated on March 20, 2024
by D.S. Bourque.