Some Resources Available for Research at the Rochester Historical Society Museum

Hanson Street, Rochester, NH

• Scrapbooks of clippings on various subjects such as Rochester businesses, Rochester women, Rochester entertainment, Rochester advertising
• Albums of Rochester photographs, such as downtown, mills, transportation, schools
• Post cards of Rochester, mainly early 1900’s
• Franklin McDuffee’s History of the Town of Rochester (1730-1890)
• Kathryn Grover’s Rochester, New Hampshire 1890-2010
• Michael Behrendt’s Comme D’or and Rochester’s Architectural Gems
• Writings on Rochester history by various local historians
• File of various subjects such as schools, hospitals, fire department, churches, businesses, clubs
• Rochester births, deaths, marriages 1890-1950; some earlier
• Some Rochester obituaries, cemeteries
• Some family history and biographies, especially better known citizens
• Town reports
• Rochester directories
• Rochester maps
• Spaulding Red and White magazines, most yearbooks; some Holy Rosary yearbooks