North Attleborough Historical Society

Mailing Address:

North Attleborough Historical Society
P. O. Box 1102
North Attleboro Ma 02761-1102

Email: nahistorical@yahoo.com

Telephone Number:
Home: 508-695-6680

Curator Noreen Kiff
Home: 508-310-3570

Email: renie3@comcast.net

President James Hale
Email: hale.james@gmail.com

Bob Lanpher
Email: rlanpher@ieee.org
Home: 508-695-6649

North Attleborough Historical Society

Purpose

The Society is a non-profit institution organized ''to study, collect and preserve historical records, traditions, and relics relating to the history of North Attleborough and its people.... To interest and unite the townspeople in a finer public spirit and a better social order through a fuller understanding of the traditions and history of the community.''

Founding

Twenty-one citizens of North Attleborough met on November 15, 1927 to complete the arrangements for the organization of the North Attleborough Historical Society. Rev. George E. Osgood of Grace Episcopal Church was elected as the first president of the Society and Dr. N. C. Bullard was appointed the first curator.

For five years, meetings were held in various places in the center of town. In 1932, Mrs. Ellen Mason bequeathed the Society a late Victorian house on South Washington Street. William Smith, a local jewelry manufacturer, built the house in 1886. On September 27, 1932, the Society held its first meeting in its new home on South Washington Street.