Annual Meeting and Program: Steam Town USA

246 Main Street,Keene NH 03431

06 April, 2022

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Annual Meeting and Program: Steam Town USA "60 years ago, in 1962, F. Nelson Blount's Monadnock, Steamtown & Northern Railroad thundered out of Keene on the Boston & Maine Railroad's Cheshire Branch, briefly returning the Elm City to the nostalgic era of steam railroading. Meanwhile, plans for the largest steam railroading museum in the United States, Steamtown U.S.A., bubbled to the brink of possibility for Keene only to be extinguished by red tape and political delays. In a dynamic presentation, Rick Kfoury, author of Steam Trains of Yesteryear: The Monadnock, Steamtown & Northern Story, will examine Keene's last chance for railroad prominence with never-before-seen photographs, documents, 8mm film and in-person accounts." 246 Main Street, Keene NH The Historical Society of Cheshire County provides 160 programs per year to make history come alive for people of all ages. The Historical Society of Cheshire County headquarters are located at 246 Main Street in Keene, New Hampshire, as well as the Wyman Tavern period house museum, built in 1762.