The Historigram is a monthly newsletter produced by the Yarmouth County Historical Society featuring historical information, as well as details on Yarmouth Museum and Archives.
Index to the 2014 Historigrams
January 2014
Articles included in this edition
- Accordion owned by Henry A. Waterman
- Genealogy tips
- Harriet Ross Tubman and the Underground Railroad
- Yarmouth’s history
March 2014
Articles included in this edition
- Fresnel Lens from the Yarmouth Lighthouse
- Lydia Clements, Sara Corning, Clare Amelia Caie, Elizabeth Lovitt Cann
- Yarmouth County Museum exhibits
April 2014
Articles included in this edition
- Yarmouth’s postal system
- Yarmouth history crossword
- Dominion Atlantic Railway, Western Counties Railway and Windsor Branch Railway
May 2014
Articles included in this edition
- Mott’s Royal Crown plates
- Nehemiah Kelley Clements
- Reminiscences by Peter Eldridge on his days hitchhiking through Southwest Nova Scotia
June 2014
Articles included in this edition
- Maud Lewis project – “Maudified Houses”
- Firsts in Yarmouth County
- 1921 Automatic Electric Pleasure Vehicle
- The Sebean photographers of Kemptville, Nova Scotia
July 2014
Articles included in this edition
- Principality of Outer Baldonia
- How to determine the date of your photos through fashion
August 2014
Articles included in this edition
- L.E. Baker
- Birchdale (Former hunting lodge, monastery and escape from civilization’s noise)
September 2014
Articles included in this edition
- Victorian Stationary Box belonging to Captain Stilson R. Hilton
- Eugene Meuse
- Photographs from the museum
October 2014
Articles included in this edition
- Captain’s Medicine Chest
- Murder Island
- Eugene Meuse, photographer of Amirault’s Hill
November 2014
Articles included in this edition
- Hornung and Moller piano (on display at the Pelton-Fuller House)
- Letters by a nurse in 1952 (she worked at the Yarmouth Hospital and was sending letters to her parents)
- Flying Officer L.R. Freeman
December 2014
Articles included in this edition
- The book, The Psychology of Insanity by Bernard Hart
- Christmas gifts in 1914
- Time capsule at Zion Baptist Church
2014 Historigram newsletters
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