Dan & Whit’s Exhibit
norwichhistory2025-08-07T08:36:47-07:00Dan & Whit's at 70: Photographs & Memories On exhibit at NHS, August 22 - December 31, 2025 Celebrating Dan & Whit's 70th birthday with documentary photographs, oral histories, [...]
Our Favorite Things
norwichhistory2025-04-09T10:07:48-07:00For more than fifty years Norwich Historical Society has collected, preserved, and made accessible photographs, books, and artifacts from Norwich’s past. Today NHS is the custodian of over 1600 [...]
Online Exhibit: Norwich’s Vandalized Bible-Mending the Spaces Between
Jeff Brand2025-02-06T08:39:03-07:00Prompted by the discovery of a vandalized Bible in the Norwich Historical Society’s collection, 22 artists and poets respond to the theme “Mending the Spaces Between.” Their work responds [...]
Online Exhibit: Norwich Women Crafting the Future
norwichhistory2025-04-06T09:59:18-07:00200 Years of Women's Activism For 200 years Norwich women have advocated for change, taken a stand, and contributed to our community. Abolition, temperance, and the right to vote [...]
Online Exhibit: Mad for Mid-Century Modern
norwichhistory2022-02-16T13:26:20-07:00Modern Architecture Comes to Norwich There was little new building in Norwich during the period of population loss in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and as a result [...]
Online Exhibit: Poets and the Past
norwichhistory2020-10-05T12:10:25-07:00In 2016 Norwich Historical Society asked eight local poets to browse through our collections, find something that captured their imagination and compose a poem about it. The results are as [...]
Norwich Timeline
norwichhistory2020-10-05T12:11:08-07:00This timeline of events in Norwich's 250 year history was developed as part of the town's 250th birthday celebration in 2011. It is currently on display in the entry foyer [...]
The Fitzgerald Family Stair Runner
David Morin2020-10-05T12:11:10-07:00The stories of the Elm Street Fitzgerald family and their 8 children told through the rug hooking skills of mother Hazel and father Ernest. Learn more.
Norwich Jail
David Morin2020-10-05T12:11:10-07:00From 1915-1967 Norwich had its own Jail housed in the garage at 410 Main Street, home of Fred Fitzgerald who was our town’s Constable for over 40 years. The Jail, [...]