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20th Anniversary of the Reading of the Declaration of Independence - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.jcvis.org/archives/history/the-vis-a-historical-perspective monthly 0.5 2021-06-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/1624841711217-YGTQ1G6IKONAIKN3RJ0A/centennial_park_fall_entrance.jpeg Archives - The VIS: A Historical Perspective - Make it stand out Centennial Park with views of Mount Monadnock. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/1624840554617-V9IA3A0CG5KCBN26GI4I/group+of+women+1936+IMG_3291+2.jpeg Archives - The VIS: A Historical Perspective - Make it stand out A group of women in 1936. Back: Mary Phelps, Mabelle Cutter, Middle: Georgia Bigelow, Mrs. John Poole, Front: Carrie Fernald, Kate Fox. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/1624841224226-OP8X75A29JSHMVXFHV9Z/flowers_horse_.trough_jaffrey_centerjpg.jpg Archives - The VIS: A Historical Perspective - Make it stand out Flowers at horse trough, one of the first actions the JCVIS made to decorate the streets of Jaffrey Center Photograph by Suze Campbell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/1624841092422-JCQKZ0YJDZOB5YJ6H1BR/centennial_park_hillside_flag.jpeg Archives - The VIS: A Historical Perspective - Make it stand out Orange day lillies through the granite and post fence draw the eye to Centennial Park’s hillside flag pole and VIS bench. Photograph by Ken Campbell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/1624840121418-64FR355X45EGZEN6KC3O/Gibbs+1850+Map+Jaffrey+Center+.jpg Archives - The VIS: A Historical Perspective - Make it stand out Map of Jaffrey Center by J.D. Gibbs, 1850. https://www.jcvis.org/archives/history/new-cedar-shake-roof-for-the-horsesheds monthly 0.5 2021-06-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/1624824258868-1SHC0X275PVLSP90PHPL/jaffrey_horsheds_yellow_cedar_roof.jpg Archives - New Cedar Shake Roof For the Horsesheds - Make it stand out The Horsesheds in 2020 glowing in the sun with a new yellow cedar roof. Photograph by Ken Campbell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/1624827076743-3GR3DT0ELMNAUBG1DFFM/jaffrey_horsheds_reroofing_2020.jpeg Archives - New Cedar Shake Roof For the Horsesheds - Make it stand out Help! We need a new roof! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/1624827131710-FQ3HALWR52OXTACOJNTY/jaffrey_horsheds_reroofing_2020_2.jpeg Archives - New Cedar Shake Roof For the Horsesheds - Make it stand out The expensive old-growth Alaskan yellow cedar 18” x 5/8” taper-sawn shakes were made in British Columbia and warranted to last 30 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/1624827882599-ZGXNA13T0EMNJSE4QGRP/jaffrey_horsesheds_reroofing_2020+copy.jpg Archives - New Cedar Shake Roof For the Horsesheds - Make it stand out 2200 sq feet of shingles stripped in 100 minutes. Plywood protects a nearby gravestone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/1624827118867-Q30517ZJBDU7ONFYQ7IC/jaffrey_horsheds_reroofing_2020_5.jpeg Archives - New Cedar Shake Roof For the Horsesheds - Make it stand out Laura Cela operated the EQLIFTER truck to bring materials to and from the roof surface. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/1624827100021-09NG4SXYR82VWEJZN3CT/jaffrey_horsheds_reroofing_2020_4.jpg Archives - New Cedar Shake Roof For the Horsesheds - Make it stand out The metal drip edge, a finishing touch, is attached after Cedar Breather and new wooden fascia molding. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/1624827577231-VHYAHYK0BWK1VLNMONZP/jaffrey_horsheds_reroofing_2020.jpg Archives - New Cedar Shake Roof For the Horsesheds - Make it stand out Meetinghouse’s 2017 yellow cedar in the background has weathered to gray. https://www.jcvis.org/archives/history/a-historians-report-on-the-jaffrey-horsesheds monthly 0.5 2021-06-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/1624826518445-XJ0BXTPBQ9FC7YBLKJG5/Horsesheds_Jaffrey_Center.jpeg Archives - A Historian’s Report on the Jaffrey Horsesheds - Make it stand out Horsesheds in Jaffrey, New Hampshire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/1624824596314-G0I4UV7YO98PRLPV3SJ4/horsesheds_jaffrey_sign.jpeg Archives - A Historian’s Report on the Jaffrey Horsesheds - Make it stand out The sign that now hangs in the Horsheds after the 1954 restoration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/1624824671179-32UMOFWXLSE6PVOOGXN6/volunteers_1953_jaffrey_horsheds.jpeg Archives - A Historian’s Report on the Jaffrey Horsesheds - Make it stand out Volunteers hard at work in 1953. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/1624824800555-DB12RCWSONVC3OA0BVDR/horsesheds_new_roof_2020_meetinghouse_jaffrey.jpeg Archives - A Historian’s Report on the Jaffrey Horsesheds - Make it stand out Meetinghouse and the Horsesheds with a new roof in 2020. https://www.jcvis.org/archives/history/a-short-history-of-melville-academy monthly 0.5 2021-06-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/1624813848277-82LHXEHTYTKOES784U36/Melville_academy_schoolroom_pupils_view+copy.jpg Archives - A Short History of Melville Academy - Make it stand out The pupils’ view of the teacher’s desk in the Melville Academy schoolroom that would accommodate three teenagers to one desk. Photograph by Ron Yantiss https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/1624813961917-3MHHJFS3R70VU16TW13Q/Melville_Academy+Book_Photo+1908.jpeg Archives - A Short History of Melville Academy - Make it stand out Melville Academy teacher and students, circa 1850’s. Photograph from Granite State Monthly / 1908 https://www.jcvis.org/archives/history/history-of-melville-academy-museum monthly 0.5 2021-06-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/1624811501742-KXQQLFIJMPAOAQEO8A9N/Melville_academy_museum_from+SE.jpg Archives - A History of Melville Academy Museum and Collections - Make it stand out Melville Academy Museum from Southwest lawn. Photograph by Ron Yantiss https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/1624811550707-GC9D3FOS3MTFK6VR9ZGZ/Melville_Academy_Museum_Amos_Fortune_Hay_Fork_Meetinghouse.jpg Archives - A History of Melville Academy Museum and Collections - Make it stand out Amos Fortune’s hand fashioned hay fork hangs above a display of tools next to the Jaffrey Meetinghouse model built by past VIS Vice President Bowman Cann, who rebuilt the actual Meetinghouse in 1922. Photograph by Ron Yantiss https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/1624810646818-PVHQCLU7GMJE8D4EWKY2/Melville_Academy_museum_open_door_welcomes_you.JPG Archives - A History of Melville Academy Museum and Collections - Make it stand out Melville’s open door welcomes you. Photograph by Ron Yantiss https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/1624810589028-6Q2MJJCT927I1B4TQDZN/Melville_Academy_Museum_Open_Sign.JPG Archives - A History of Melville Academy Museum and Collections - Make it stand out Melville Academy Museum summer hours. Photograph by Ron Yantiss https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/1624810199498-WC6OUN2QLSI2FJ5Y0DJL/Hannah_Davis_bandboxes_Melville_academy_museum+.jpg Archives - A History of Melville Academy Museum and Collections - Make it stand out The clothing here might have been packed in one of the Hanna Davis bandboxes above. 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The carol sing is usually followed by a VIS Christmas dinner, one of several events the VIS holds annually. The VIS encourages electric candles in windows in December. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/1624832721623-047YL8TU5XDHBLNRIFVU/Pertetuity_a_view_forever_jaffrey.png About JCVIS - Make it stand out Perpetuity “A View Forever” of Mt. Monadnock was what prompted Sandi Best and family to give this 6.2 acre parcel on Thorndike Pond Road, about 500 feet north of Melville Academy Museum, to the VS in 2011. https://www.jcvis.org/board-of-directors daily 0.75 2025-09-19 https://www.jcvis.org/history daily 0.75 2022-09-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/1624833827813-AFZ7T0NDC9G3O3U5L0NF/Map_of_JCVIS_Properties.png History of JCVIS - Make it stand out JCVIS Properties in the Jaffrey Historic District https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/1624813961917-3MHHJFS3R70VU16TW13Q/Melville_Academy%2BBook_Photo%2B1908.jpg History of JCVIS - Make it stand out Melville Academy teacher and students, circa 1850s. Photograph from Granite State Monthly / Jan 1908 https://www.jcvis.org/archives daily 0.75 2025-09-19 https://www.jcvis.org/events-jcvis daily 0.75 2025-06-11 https://www.jcvis.org/support daily 0.75 2022-09-13 https://www.jcvis.org/more-resources daily 0.75 2022-09-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/1623873360956-OY286ID1KPYLGPKE0VWE/Jaffrey_Center_NH_Walking_tour_pdf.png More Resources https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/1623873383818-2GMNE6FKSMNFWNZ0X0GG/Jaffrey_Downtown_NH_Walking_tour_pdf.png More Resources https://www.jcvis.org/visit-jaffrey-center daily 0.75 2022-09-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/1623855594634-5035PKT3DCVUA6R350C8/Melville+Post+Office+Display.jpg Visit Jaffrey Center https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/1623855967808-OD7Z39RS0QX6GCTOCV8N/IMG_1943.jpeg Visit Jaffrey Center https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/1623856745519-LCABC3QUMGIYXJR99LK5/Centennial_Park_Jaffrey_NH_fall-2.jpeg Visit Jaffrey Center https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/1623957929132-5HWUNUDDR33Q0TW6RAX0/Old+Burying+Grounds+2.png Visit Jaffrey Center https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/1623856401332-CM54J4BSS8SEJ6NOPS0E/meetinghouse_jaffrey_center.jpg Visit Jaffrey Center https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/1623857024609-VCH2BM8PN0F5EWAQKKZ1/Historic+Walking+Tour+Jaffrey+Center.jpeg Visit Jaffrey Center https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/0abbe00a-f908-4ccf-8735-1007060b13cd/Aerial+View+of+Jaffrey+Center+-+Labled+Key.jpg Visit Jaffrey Center https://www.jcvis.org/visit-museum daily 0.75 2025-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/1623974383840-2IWCINO72JA5WEYP6JJK/melville_academy_sign_jaffrey_nh.JPG Visit Museum Melville Museum Thank you for another great season! Melville Academy Museum is currently available to visit by appointment only, please request via email here. Melville Museum looks forward to welcoming visitors again for the 2025 summer season next July and August. Hours 2pm -4pm, July & August weekends. 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If, however, a person or persons wish to use them for gathering or other purposes, permission must be sought by contacting the VIS. Hours Daily, 8am to dusk https://www.jcvis.org/visit-parks-views daily 0.75 2025-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/f58777a2-0224-4115-8881-ee98c311f697/Pertetuity_a_view_forever_jaffrey.png Visit Parks & Views 'A View Forever' given to JCVIS by Sandi Best. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/54819e8d-bda7-40df-b9f1-101f4be624e5/beauty_Cutter_Park_Jaffrey_Center.jpeg Visit Parks & Views Yellow daffodils line the stone walls at Cutter-Tenney Park with flag pole in the center and mountain beyond. Photograph by Suze Campbell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/1624918590613-PXQPYWETI0GH1EVTR8J7/Mount_Monadnock_from_melville_academy.jpg Visit Parks & Views Mount Monadnock, viewed from the Melville Academy lawn and Thorndike Pond Road, peaks through the summer foliage. Photograph by Ron Yantiss https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/af418e6a-e710-4f5a-b168-eeee4075c990/Horsesheds_and_peak_of_mount_monadnock_old.jpeg Visit Parks & Views The view by the Horsesheds is of the peak of Mount Monadnock, the Old Burying Grounds where Amos Fortune, Laban Ainsworth, "Aunt" Hannah Davis and Willa Cather are buried. 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Hours Daily, 8am to dusk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/1624833827813-AFZ7T0NDC9G3O3U5L0NF/Map_of_JCVIS_Properties.png Visit Parks & Views - Make it stand out Map of property owned by the JCVIS and conservation easements. https://www.jcvis.org/visit-old-burying-grounds daily 0.75 2022-09-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/8f6dc30d-f145-497f-a986-bfc74ef9403b/Old_Burying_Grounds_Jaffrey_NH.jpg Visit Old Burying Ground https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/551ea709-bc70-4b04-bf64-593aa29cf69e/amos_fortune_gravesite_new_hampshire_markers.jpg Visit Old Burying Ground https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/921f23c0-4ad7-4558-942f-ae008d054339/willa_cather_gravesite.jpg Visit Old Burying Ground https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/fa4d0f3a-0c96-4af5-ad31-3d2076ed1f5b/old_burying_grounds_jaffrey_hanna_davis_amos_fortune.jpeg Visit Old Burying Ground https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/1624396766693-18D0JCKLAN1ZNZPH5TM3/Old_Burying_Grounds_Jaffrey_NH_2.jpg Visit Old Burying Ground Old Burying Ground The Old Burying Ground and Cutter Cemetery are overseen by the town of Jaffrey’s Cemetery Committee. These cemeteries are open for people to visit but if a person or persons wish to use them for burial purposes, permission must be sought from the Department of Pubic Works (603-532-6521). Hours Daily, 8am to dusk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/1624396120160-U7HAS98027SCTJFL42R7/willa_cather_gravesite_with_footstones.jpg Visit Old Burying Ground Willa Cather’s Gravesite in Jaffrey, New Hampshire https://www.jcvis.org/visit-meetinghouse daily 0.75 2025-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/4d1c88cd-bf5e-4ba0-88b6-23020e30f376/jaffrey_meetinghouse_original_sign.jpg Visit Meetinghouse The Meetinghouse historical sign. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/874a69fa-f9a6-4f51-bbc6-f5885d2e678d/Jaffrey_Meetinghouse_Summer_web.jpg Visit Meetinghouse Meetinghouse in summer with July buntings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/1624567425134-C6P7F8MVT6A10S653S07/jaffrey_meetinghouse_fall_leaves.jpg Visit Meetinghouse Meetinghouse with fall leaves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/18a8001b-9c9e-4230-a254-eccd508f50d9/Jaffrey_Center_Village_fall.jpeg Visit Meetinghouse Meetinghouse in fall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/f502ead7-b9e0-4586-ba2f-b7a9ece2b5ef/jaffrey_meetinghouse_aerial_winter.jpg Visit Meetinghouse Meetinghouse in winter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/308fe916-18e2-4114-aaa4-41216bc5363c/Jaffrey_meetinghouse_christmas_treejpg.jpg Visit Meetinghouse Meetinghouse decorated for the holidays. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/1624567039929-RBKKMLC0TLX98LTJ68QN/jaffrey_meetinghouse_from_cemetary_westside.jpg Visit Meetinghouse Meetinghouse The Meetinghouse is managed and overseen by the Meetinghouse Committee. Questions about the Meetinghouse, its use and facilities, and inquiries related to renting the Meetinghouse should be directed to Robert B. Stephenson, Chair of the Meetinghouse Committee. Hours Check Calendar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/1624396120160-U7HAS98027SCTJFL42R7/willa_cather_gravesite_with_footstones.jpg Visit Meetinghouse Willa Cather’s Gravesite in Jaffrey, New Hampshire https://www.jcvis.org/current-exhibitions daily 0.75 2022-09-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/1624820321559-MLIGW3EIK50NT052J9UA/five_famous_jaffrey_people_melville_museum.JPG Current Exhibitions - Exhibit: Five Famous Jaffrey People A special museum exhibit honors five prominent people of Jaffrey: Amos Fortune, a slave who became a tanner, earned his freedom and helped found the first library in Jaffrey; his friend, the Rev. Laban Ainsworth, who served the First Church in Jaffrey for 76 years and was superintendent of schools; Hannah Davis, one of the first women inventors and entrepreneurs who made and sold artful luggage known as bandboxes; Jonas Melville, a banker and benefactor who financed the first high school and two church buildings in Jaffrey; and Willa Cather, author of many early 20th century novels, some of which she wrote while staying in Jaffrey. See the special display of photos and artifacts about these five noted people This exhibit in the northwest corner of the museum’s first floor focuses attention on the five people most often associated with Jaffrey Center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/1624563996084-1PZWXZKK1ST2PNL0XEGV/Willa_Cather_Edith_Lewis_on_VIS_Bench_web.jpg Current Exhibitions - Exhibit: “Willa Cather’ Spirit Lives On!” The Cather exhibit includes the only published photo, to date, of Cather together with Edith Lewis, her partner. The photo of them was taken in 1926 on the Jaffrey Meetinghouse Common with Cather sitting on a Village Improvement Society bench. Cather chose to be buried in Jaffrey rather than in Nebraska, where she grew up. Lewis is buried next to Cather a thousand feet from the museum in the SW corner of the Old Burying Ground behind the 1775 Meetinghouse. The exhibit includes many of her books; her published letters; the room number from the Shattuck Inn where she stayed while writing novels; a first-day issue sheet of Willa Cather postage stamps; many magazine articles about her; and the program and map of a national conference held in 2018 in Jaffrey, “Willa Cather’s Spirit Lives On!” Photo restored for Melville Academy Museum by Inkberry, Marlborough, NH. Photo Credit: Mrs. Josiah Wheelwright. From Theodore Jones, “Willa Cather in the Northeast (A Pictorial Biography) 1917- 1947.” UNB Masters Thesis, 1968. Archives and Special Collections, University of New Brunswick, Canada. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/1624564023726-ZCWQ92CQ4XOKKMTSD7H8/jaffrey_center_post_office_exhibit_melville_museum+web.JPG Current Exhibitions - Exhibit: Jaffrey Center Post Office Next is the old Jaffrey Center Post Office boxes, on loan from Noel and Stephen Pierce since 2001. Mrs. Meyers, Postmistress 1941 to 1974, greets you from behind the P.O. window. These P.O. Boxes were the actual ones in use at 371 Main Street between 1921 and 1974, when the Post Office moved to the Oribe Barn across Main Street, and again from 1979 to 1990 when the P.O. returned to 371 Main Street. It is said that when Mrs. Meyers saw you coming, she would get your mail and hand it to you. People remember that she handed out candy to the children. On the side of the boxes there is a list box numbers and names of the people who rented them. In 1990, the Jaffrey Center Post Office was permanently closed. Eventually, the Post Office boxes were moved to the museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/1624564044615-QW1X6F0R2KHS8Y9Q2Q91/hannah_davis_bandboxes_exhibit_melville_museum.JPG Current Exhibitions - Exhibit: Hannah Davis Bandboxes The award-winning collection of famous Hannah Davis Bandboxes (19th c. boxes and suitcases) can be seen on shelves between the EAST windows. Hannah Davis (1784-1863) needed to make a living at age 34 after her widowed mother died. She became an inventor and entrepreneur who manufactured and sold beautiful “bandboxes” – luggage or hat boxes– made of bands of thin spruce veneers that were bent to make oval shaped boxes finished with tops and bottoms made from pine. The boxes and tops were then covered with colorful wall papers and lined with newspapers. Hannah invented a machine that enabled strong men to slice the thin bands of the spruce, and she transported and sold the boxes to girls working in mills in Manchester, NH and Lowell, Mass. Large boxes were used as suitcases to carry belongings. Antique Clothing and linens hanging below the bandboxes, and items on the table opposite the bandboxes, might have been packed in a Hannah Davis bandbox. Luggage trunks used on stagecoaches and trains are below on the floor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/1624564101594-SG6AU2CRPI7NCFXGL2CS/1841_schoolroom_melville_academy_museum_exhibit_web.jpg Current Exhibitions - Exhibit: The 1841 Schoolroom The original 19th century schoolroom of Melville Academy has been preserved on the second floor. It has historical information on Melville Academy, books, toys, art, old maps, and artifacts. The Academy opened its doors in 1833 as Jaffrey’s first (and private) high school. In 1835 87 boys and 87 girls from New England and New York state attended the school. They boarded with local residents. The second-floor exhibit is known as the 1841 Schoolroom because it has the list of pupils from that year, ancestors of current Jaffrey families. The 1841 Schoolroom has 28 original mortise-and-tenon bench and desk units, built without nails and fixed into the floor. Two or possibly three teen-agers sat next to each other. The names of the Melville students, listed in the 1841 catalogue displayed on the front (south) wall, include many members of the Cutter family. Miss Sarah Cutter was the assistant teacher. Her dress adorns the mannequin by the teacher’s desk. https://www.jcvis.org/jcvis-timeline daily 0.75 2021-10-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/1624908865616-UGGM21GBFS46WCWC9XDV/horse_trough_jaffrey_center_jcvis.jpeg JCVIS Timeline - Make it stand out The horse trough in Jaffrey Center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/1624909216721-M2QSB1XJSW06I2K4F8VL/Meetinghouse_road_jaffrey_center_jcvis.jpeg JCVIS Timeline - Make it stand out Iconic wooden horse signs in Jaffrey Center Historic District. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60b6859e9f36727e02695d70/1624908415724-BN7YO4ZS8CTXI6SC0D0W/melville_academy_jaffrey_pen_and_ink_drawing.jpeg JCVIS Timeline - Make it stand out Melville Academy Museum, ink and paper drawing by R.P. 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