Sugar Hill Historical Museum

About

An educational resource for the public through research, study, collection, preservation and exhibition of artifacts that illustrate our community.

Story

The Sugar Hill Historical Museum began as a bicentennial project in 1976. The original building was a schoolhouse moved from the neighboring town of Easton in 1948 to its present location by the then-newly formed Sugar Hill Fire Department. Later that year, the school burned and the building became a four-stall firehouse. In 1975 the growing fire department moved to new, nearby larger headquarters; the vacated building was again renovated and in 1976 the Sugar Hill Historical Museum opened its doors.
The campus consists of two barns and one main building. The Carriage Barn contains,among other artifacts, vintage tools, horse-drawn carriages and a Benjamin Morrill tower clock.
The Sleigh Shed displays a collection of vintage public signs and sleighs. It also garages a 1939 Ford Fire Truck #2 given to the SHFD in 1948 by Henry Crapo.
The Main Building houses a photograph gallery, a local history and genealogy library, the Cobleigh Tavern replica, a gift shop and a unique exhibit which changes annually - the theme always selected to reflect the history of Sugar Hill's people and places. Flash Back, the 2015 exhibit, features the museum's extensive collection of the photography and writings of Sugar Hill's Reverend Samuel Nickerson, 1835-1930.