Publications

The Peterborough Historical Society celebrates 250 years of cooking traditions with this 175 page cookbook filled with recipes from 1739 through to modern times.

From oyster soup to piccalilli and maple parfait to $100 cheese cake, you will find something yummy to try!

This two-volume history chronicles the changes in Peterborough over 50 years, culminating in 1989, the year of the town's 250th anniversary. In the first volume, read about the evolution of the community from a agriculture and textile manufacturing area to light industry and see how it developed into the cultural hub of the region.

The second volume provides you with a set of genealogies and maps to aid in research.

All Saints' Parish Church, Peterborough, New Hampshire

Text by Joan Jessop Brewster
Photos by William H. Gnade

In celebration of the parish centennial, All Saints' published this beautiful book filled with photos of the incredible stained glass windows in the church. The windows were created by Charles Jay Connick of Boston and brought to life for the rest of the world through the photos by William Gnade. Joan Brewster provides both information and insight into the world within the glass.

A wonderful book for all to enjoy!

Transcripts of the early roads from 1760 to 1860 with explanatory notes by Richard H. Sanderson

"We, the subscribers, having carefully viewed the land for a road have laid out and appointed the following places for the Town's use and benefit viz:..."

So begins the description and the roads traveling through Peterborough as they were "appointed" over 200 years ago. Sanderson includes transcriptions of the actual descriptions, his own additional information about each road, and maps to help place the street in a current context.

This is a fascinating look at one piece of our local history.

Inscriptions on Gravestones in the Two Old Cemeteries
on East Hill in Peterborough, N.H.

If you are looking for information on burials in Peterborough from the mid-1700's to the mid-1800's, this is the source you need. Each stone is transcribed and given a location within the cemetery. The book includes an index of names.

Journal Kept by John H. Steele on a Journey from Peterborough, N.H. to Salisbury, North Carolina in the Months of November & December 1838

edited by John Lindenbusch

John Hardy Steele (1789 - 1865) was a prominent textile manufacturer here in Peterborough who was later governor of New Hampshire. This booklet chronicles his two-month journey from Peterborough to his native Salisbury in 1838.

This transcription is a wonderful primary source of one man's thoughts of that time.