Yarmouth History Center is proud to announce the winner of the 2023 Wellcome Prize for Student Historians. First prize in the film competition goes to Chris Noreika, a student at North Yarmouth Academy, for his documentary film about the Great Portland Fire of 1866. Congratulations, Chris! Watch his award-winning film here:    The Wellcome Prize is Yarmouth … [Read more...]

Presented by Yarmouth History Center and Yarmouth Municipal Television, Inside Yarmouth History: Yarmouth Mills explores the history of mills and manufacturing in Yarmouth during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Learn about the many industries along the Royal River and the clues that remain in the Yarmouth landscape that tell this history.    … [Read more...]

Thanks to Yarmouth Municipal Television, many of our recent programs and exhibits are available online! Check out their YouTube channel for lectures, talks with local artists, and conversations about local history. We appreciate their support in helping to make our programs more accessible to our community of supporters. Thank you, YMTV! … [Read more...]

Now through 1995! All of us at Yarmouth History Center are excited to announce the expansion of our new digital archive of Yarmouth's own newspaper, The Shopping Notes! You'll find issue from 1953-1995, fully digitized and searchable by keyword. Or, browse year by year and page through the individual issues. We hope you'll enjoy looking back at Yarmouth's more recent … [Read more...]

In the summer of 2022, Yarmouth History Center hosted a temporary exhibit of large photo prints from our collection of images of the 1959 Visitors Days. This show showcased large photographs that provide beautifully clear and detailed views of the events, people, and places that made up Yarmouth's Visitors Days celebrations. From a huge parade along Main Street, featuring … [Read more...]