The Sudbury History Center

We're renovating the historic Loring Parsonage to be the Sudbury History Center.

Learn about our restoration project and the new construction to come.

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Tour Historic Sudbury Center

Take a tour of Sudbury Town Center and hear Sudburians past and present describe thirteen locations in Town Center.

You can walk the tour with your mobile in hand or take it now!

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Sudbury and the Civil War

Sudbury's George Moore fought in the Civil war and the SHS holds his letters home to his family and his journals.

The Society has published this collection and staged a reading of it.

Explore our Collections

Aesthetic Sudbury

Sudbury's Hattie Goodnow recorded Sudbury at the turn of the century in an extensive series of aesthetic images.

Learn about Hattie and the other aesthetic photographers of Sudbury's rural past.

View the Photographs

Tree Lighting & Carol Sing with Santa and Mrs. ClausSaturday December 1
4:30 - 6:30 PM

Join the Sudbury Historical Society and the Town for Christmas festivities and the town tree lighting. With music, cookies, the menorah and tree lighting, Mister Vic and His Band, and more!

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Hosmer House ChristmasSaturdays December 1, 8
Sundays December 2, 9
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM

At the Hosmer House, 299 Old Sudbury Road, Sudbury.

SHS volunteers will be decorating the Parlor.

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Our Fall Newsletter

Read about the start of Phase II of our repurposing the Loring Parsonage as our History Center. And learn about our new Civics program for 8th graders, read about John Maynard, catch up on the latest additions to our collections and meet some of our volunteers.

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Annual Appeal

As the holidays approach many of us are planning our year-end charitable giving. The Sudbury Historical Society is hoping that you will consider a donation to our 2018-2019 Annual Appeal. When you support the nonprofit SHS, you further our mission to collect, conserve, and connect local history to the community. You will have an opportunity to play an active role in fostering civic awareness and ensuring history’s relevance to present activities.

This year all donors who give $500 or more to the SHS Annual Appeal by December 31st will be will be entered into a drawing for a stunning, Sudbury-inspired quilt created by Sudbury resident Barbara Clifton.

As part of #GivingTuesday, Facebook and PayPal will match donations made on Tuesday, November 27th from 8:00 a.m. ET until funds run out. Visit facebook to learn more

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Construction of the Sudbury History Center is Underway!

The Loring Parsonage circa 1890Etching by J. S. Conant, from Alfred S. Hudson, History of Sudbury, 1889

The Sudbury Historical Society is in the midst of its most ambitious project to date, creating the Sudbury History Center & Museum at the circa 1730 Loring Parsonage in the Town Center.

Stabilization of the existing building is now complete (you may have noticed the some of the building's post and beam frame exposed while it was being stabilized). Next we'll be reconstructing the interior of the building and expanding the ell on the east side of the building. After that we can move in!

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