Gallery
Schoolhouse built in 1841
Home of the Dublin Historical Society museum since 1920. The Civil War monument, erected in 1870 on an island at the intersection of Route 101 and Monument Road, was moved to this site in 1929.
Photo by Sharron Monaghan
President William Howard Taft
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.
Harvesting ice on Dublin Lake
Harvesting ice on Dublin Lake circa 1900.
Photo by Henry D. Allison
Postcard view of Dublin
Postcard view of Dublin village circa 1905.
Abbott Handerson Thayer
Artist and naturalist Abbott Handerson Thayer on his porch near Dublin Lake.
Monadnock Angel
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
