Nahant Historical Society

10/10/2026

Greenlawn Cemetery Historical Walking Tour 👻

Join the Nahant Historical Society for a guided historical walking tour through Greenlawn Cemetery.

Friday, October 30 at 4:00 PM
$25 per person

Advance reservations required

Learn more and reserve your spot:

Date / Time Friday, October 30, 2026 4:00 PM Location Greenlawn Cemetery Nahant, Massachusetts Description Join the Nahant Historical Society for a guided historical walking tour through Greenlawn Cemetery, one of Nahant’s most significant historic sites.

10/05/2026

Looking for a hauntingly local October read? 👻

​Nahauntus explores the strange stories, legends, and unexplained occurrences woven into Nahant’s history, from sea serpents and witchcraft to UFO sightings and other local mysteries.

Written by historian and former Nahant resident Gerald W. Butler, it’s a perfect October read for anyone who likes their history with a supernatural twist.

Learn more and order through the Nahant Historical Society website:
https://nahanthistory.org/shop/p/nahauntus-accounts-of-unexplained-occurrences-in-nahant-massachusetts

10/01/2026

Please note: The Nahant Historical Society will be closed this Sunday, October 4, 2026 and will reopen Tuesday, October 6, 2026. We apologize for any inconvenience and look forward to seeing you next week!

09/10/2026

Have you met Milo? 🐾

If you’ve followed the Nahant Historical Society for a while, you may already know Milo, one of the most beloved characters in our story.

Read about Milo here:

https://nahanthistory.org/news/milo

And if he wins you over, you can find the Milo collection in the Apparel section of our website, with shirts, hoodies, hats, bandanas, a sling bag, and more.

Every purchase helps support the Nahant Historical Society.

08/26/2026

Milo has merch! 🐾💙💚
Our new NHS apparel shop is live, featuring Milo shirts, hats, bandanas, a sling bag, and more, plus our classic “So that the future may know the past” designs.

Shop through the Apparel section on nahantHistory.org and you’ll be taken to our Bonfire store to complete your purchase.

And yes, Milo approves. 😉

08/25/2026

The Nahant Historical Society and Celebrating the Arts are most grateful to our supporters, new and old, who attended the A Million Dreams concert last Saturday evening. The audience grew beyond our expectations, prompting our volunteers to set up additional chairs while exhausting our supply of programs. This was the perfect ending to Celebrating the Arts’ first season. We look forward to presenting an equally exciting and fun schedule for our 2027 season. To get on our mailing list, email us at [email protected]. STAY TUNED!!

08/22/2026

The Nahant Historical Society is greatly saddened by the passing of our Honorary Lifetime member, Cheerio. We send our condolences to his father, Steve Thibeault. Cheerio was a faithful member since 2020, spreading joy and happiness throughout the community of Nahant. We were honored to have him on our team and will miss him deeply.

07/20/2026

The Nahant Historical Society will be closed from July 20th through July 28th for a brief vacation week.
We will reopen on Wednesday July 29th at 1pm.
Sorry for any inconvenience.

Be sure to mark your calendars for our
A Million Dreams concert on
Saturday, August 22nd , 7pm, Town Hall
For Reservations email: [email protected]
Or call: 781-581-2727

For shop items visit: www.nahanthistory.org/shop.
For 50th Anniversary apparel visit: https://www.bonfire.com/nahanthistorygear/

Nahant Historical Society Online Gift Shop

07/09/2026

THE MILITIA WAS WARNED OF THE APPROACHING ENEMY

A grand time was had by all at the Life Saving Station on Friday July 3rd. Prescott’s Battalion Fifes and Drums put on a magnificent show and shared a plethora of information about the importance of the fifes and drums during the Revolution. Folks, young and old, came up from Short Beach once they heard the call of the fifes and stayed to enjoy the music, history lesson, and some watermelon and slush. A perfect day in Nahant.

07/02/2026

Note: venue has changed from Swampscott Town Hall to the High School.

In anticipation of July 4th, it’s Frederick Douglass Day hereabouts.

This afternoon at the Swampscott High School Auditorium there will be a reading of his famous speech made in 1852, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?... sponsored by the Nahant and Swampscott Historical Societies and others.

Douglass lived in Lynn when Nahant and Swampscott were neighborhoods of that small city of barely 10,000. As a resident and an escaped slave, he wrote his first book here and was a close friend of the Boston abolitionist, Wendell Phillips, who had a summer place near the two streets named after him in Nahant. It’s also an area where, according researcher Sherry Smith, black citizens had also owned land in Nahant.

On a very hot day, consider spending some time in the air-conditioned auditorium at 200 Essex Street, eating some free ice-cream, relaxing, learning, hearing your neighbors read an historic speech whose opening lines will be performed by Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell…and the rest of us will take it from there.