NCCHP BOARD MEETING TO BE HELD ON JUNE 15, 2022

The Noble & Cooley Center for Historic Preservation (NCCHP) will hold its first Board Meeting of 2022 from 10:30AM to noon on June 15, 2022 at the museum (42 Water Street, Granville, MA.). 

Up for discussion are ideas for this summer's Living History presentations, Harvest Fair planning, thoughts on attracting members and volunteers, among other topics.

The meeting is open to NCCHP members and interested parties. 

Please note that if there is a significant turnout Covid protocol may be required (masks).

FLAG DAY 2022

Flag Day celebrates the adoption of the United States flag on June 14, 1777 by the Continental Congress. 

Please fly your flag to commemorate this momentous day in history!

Embossed flag on an old Noble & Cooley metal drum shell.

Flag on an old Noble & Cooley metal drum shell.

Old Glory at the Noble & Cooley drum shop
(copyright Paul Jensen, used with permission)

Flag at the West Granville Congregational Church green

"GRANVILLE HISTORY" WEB SITE TOPS 3000 SCANNED IMAGES ONLINE

Four years ago the Noble & Cooley Center for Historic Preservation (NCCHP) partnered with the Mabel Root Henry Historical Museum (aka, the Historical Room at the Granville Library) to create a web site featuring photos, maps and other historic documents from Granville's past.

Today the collection includes over 3000 scanned images and there are many more to go. These images are from the NCCHP and Historical Room collections, as well as hundreds of photos that were loaned and scanned  from the personal collections of current and past Granville residents. The project preserves Granville's fascinating history and makes it available to anybody, anywhere, with internet access.

Along with photos and documents the collection includes amazing life stories and oral histories. 

We hope you will visit the Granville History web site at https://granvillehistory.omeka.net/

When visiting the web site please be sure to make use of the search function. This will make it much simpler to find items. Or you can simply browse through the photos.

In addition to the web site we have created a Facebook page, which is at this link: https://www.facebook.com/GranvilleMAHistory Every Friday for the last 3+ years we have posted a special "Friday Flashback" photo. The "crowdsource" responses to the photos provide fascinating stories about the people and places in Granville's history. 

Please visit the web site and enjoy the collection. If you have photos you are willing to loan for inclusion please email granvillehistory@cwmars.org We are particularly short on photos of people, events and places from the 1950's to the present.

Want to get started? Let's begin with a couple of remarkable life stories that make good winter reading:

https://granvillehistory.omeka.net/items/show/1416

https://granvillehistory.omeka.net/items/show/1417

And the story of an amazing Granville house that was the home of not one, but six Revolutionary War patriots:

https://granvillehistory.omeka.net/items/show/1233

Noble & Cooley, 42 Water Street, Granville, MA. (Paul Jensen photo, copyright 2001)

NOBLE & COOLEY FEATURED IN "BUSINESS INSIDER" VIDEO

"Business Insider" recently visited Noble & Cooley to learn about the company's business and history. They created a fascinating video which as of today has been viewed over 750,000 times on YouTube. 

You can view the video at this link: CLICK HERE or via the window provided below. You can expand the window to full screen by clicking on the square brackets in the lower right corner after hitting the play arrow.

Please watch this great video and let's get the views over 1 million!

NCCHP MUSEUM RECEIVES GENEROUS DONATION

On November 15, 2021 NCCHP was the recipient of a generous donation from Mr. Wilson Rider of Granville, MA. 

Mr. and Mrs. Rider owned this Model T Ford for many years and enjoyed it on tours with the area Model T club as well as on "Sunday drives" around Granville. Their longest journey was a round-trip to Orange, MA.

Mr. Rider commented that he is pleased the Model T will be staying in Granville and he looks forward to seeing it in local parades in the future.

Thank you, Wilson Rider! NCCHP is most grateful for this kind donation. 

The Model T is shown here with Mr. Rider and Matt Jones, President of NCCHP.

Joyce (Hiers) Jones, Noble & Cooley Matriarch, 1930-2020

We are deeply saddened to note the passing of Joyce Jones of Granville, Massachusetts on November 26, 2020. 

Joyce was a direct descendant of James Cooley, co-founder of Noble & Cooley where she worked for many years. In her later years Joyce never missed an opportunity to greet visitors to the Noble & Cooley Center for Historic Preservation's summer Living History events at the museum. 

Joyce's obituary can be viewed at this link: https://thewestfieldnews.com/joyce-jones/

Donations in Joyce's memory may be made to the Noble & Cooley Center for Historic Preservation, 42 Water St., Granville, MA. or at this link: http://www.ncchp.org/charitable-giving.html  

Noble & Cooley History Featured in Journal of Antiques and Collectibles Article

The latest issue of the Journal of Antiques and Collectibles has an excellent article written by Judy Gonyeau with Jay Jones, sixth-generation owner of Noble & Cooley. The article covers the military history of drums as well as the history of N&C through the present day. It is a fascinating article, well-illustrated with historic images, many from NCCHP's archives collection.

You can read the full article at the Granville History web site (sponsored by NCCHP) by clicking THIS LINK.

Image from article "Noble & Cooley- Marching to the Sound of Their Drums"
Copyright 2020, Journal of Antiques and Collectibles