Collections & Research
The Digital Archive
Fifty-one boxes of source material spanning nearly four centuries of Greenland history: letters, diaries, photographs, maps, parish records, more.
Hughes Family Bequest
The cornerstone of the GHS archive is the multi-volume, unpublished manuscript, A Pleasant Abiding Place: A History of Greenland, NH, 1635–2000, This work is accompanied by 51 boxes of research, gathered over decades by Paul C., Paul F., and Anna Cleary Hughes.
The collection includes personal letters and diaries from a variety of people associated with Greenland, vintage photographs, church and parish records, town reports, USGS maps, and supporting documents spanning nearly four centuries of community life. It is one of the most comprehensive local history collections in the Seacoast region.
Archive Inventory
"Taverns" by Russell A. Rolston (unpublished manuscript)
Manuscript | About 1970 (undated)
Greenland Community Profile Report, February 2006
Report | February 3–4, 2006
By-Laws of the Greenland Historical Society, 1967
GHS | 1967
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"Taverns" by Russell A. Rolston (unpublished manuscript)
A typescript history of Greenland's early inns and taverns by the Society's first president. It covers colonial licensing laws, the taverns that fed townspeople on muster days, and keepers and houses including Clarke's Tavern, the Bell Tavern in the old Avery house, Brackett Weeks's Inn, and Samuel Hatch's tavern at Willowbrook Avenue and Route 101. Town meeting votes on tavern keepers run from 1766 to 1812. 25 pages, with handwritten page numbering (beginning at 126), suggesting it was part of a larger compiled work.
Greenland Community Profile Report, February 2006
The report from a two-day community self-assessment led by UNH Cooperative Extension, in which residents described Greenland as it was, set out a vision for its future, and named key issues across eleven areas, from community leadership and cultural heritage to growth and transportation. It includes a historical overview presented by Paul Hughes. 56 pages.
Research Requests
Although the Society does not have a dedicated archivist, we do receive requests from genealogists, historians, and students and respond as we are able. You are welcome to submit research requests. The GHS will respond to inquiries and arrange access to archival materials when possible.