Celebrate Dublin’s History!

President William Howard Taft leaving the Unitarian Church (now the Dublin Community Church) on August 28, 1910. Taft, his wife and his daughter Helen were guests at the Dublin home of Franklin MacVeagh, Taft’s Secretary of the Treasury.

Postcard view of Dublin village circa 1905.

Artist and naturalist Abbott Handerson Thayer on his porch near Dublin Lake.

Monadnock Angel painted by Abbott Thayer in 1921, the last of his many paintings of idealized women with wings. It can be viewed at the Addison Gallery of American Art.

Peacock, 1907

A painting by Abbott Thayer and Richard Meryman, was used as an illustration to represent Thayer’s theories of concealing coloration, the early exploration of what came to be called camouflage. Smithsonian American Art Museum

Town hall in its original 1882 form

The Gothic details were removed in a 1916 renovation.

Scholars inside schoolhouse Near Bond’s Corner n.d

Portrait of Mark Twain taken by Dublin summer resident Elise Pumpelly Cabot during the summer of 1905 or 1906, when Twain rented summer cottages in Dublin.

Horse-powered firewood saw n.d.
Photo by Henry D. Allison

Dublin Village

Photograph of Dublin village from Snow Hill circa 1865.

The September 1938 hurricane toppled the steeple of the Dublin Community Church.

Amelia Earhart and the cast of a Joseph Lindon Smith

Pageant performed in her honor at Dark Pond in 1934. Earhart was a cousin of Corinna Putnam Smith.

Allison Store circa 1905

A store operated on this site from 1835 until 1983, when the Dublin General Store relocated. The building is now the Dublin Community Center aka the Dub Hub.
Photo by Henry D. Allison

Postcard image of the Leffingwell Hotel, circa 1900. Dublin’s only extensive summer hotel was located on the hill above the library. It burned to the ground in November 1908.