This year's Annual Meeting will be held Tuesday, January 21st, at 7:00 p.m.

• In-person at Falmouth Town Hall Council Chambers,
  
• Online via Zoom Meeting, and
  
• Broadcast on Falmouth Community Television.
  

Agenda

• A brief business meeting.
• A look back at last year’s accomplishments.
• Short presentations sharing recent research into local history.  These topics were selected from about fifty research projects conducted in response to requests from the community during the past year.

	The Humphrey Merrill House.  Kyle Lucas, owner of 220 Middle Road, wanted the answer to a simple question: Who built my home and when was it built?” He overcame every imaginable challenge while reconstructing the narrative for his home in a journey that took him back to 1731. He will tell us how he solved this historical jigsaw puzzle and found the answer: Humphrey Merrill, 1831.
	The First Volley.  History tells us the uprising by Native People that spread across New England in 1675 followed decades of mistreatment by English settlers.  “King Philips War” came to Falmouth in September 1675 with raids from the Presumpscot to Spurwink.  This marked the beginning of a violent half-century during which Falmouth was on the frontier and the front line.  An attack on an isolated homestead overlooking the Presumpscot River terrified the forty families of European settlers then living in Falmouth.  Many fled south to Salem and Boston for safety.  We were asked a simple question: Where was the Wakely homestead?  Period accounts were vague about the location.  This was a job for our history detectives!

The Zoom link for the meeting will be posted on this web page on the day of the meeting.

Fundraising		Newsletters
2024 Annual Appeal Was a Big Success!  Our treasurer has been reporting a projected year end shortfall despite an austere budget.  The culprit was inflation.  We needed $3,800 to climb out of the hole.  Our fundraising goal was $4,000.  We put out a call to our membership and you responded!  Thirty-two members donated $4,211 to our general operating fund!			Our winter newsletter is out!  New!
			If you missed our autumn newsletter, here it is! Other recent newsletters can be found here.

Presentations

   •  Falmouth's Western Frontier (Slides and Speaker's Notes)  

   •  The Story Begins with a Sword (Slides and Speaker's Notes) 

   •  An Early Falmouth Family (Slides and Speaker's Notes)

   •  First Summer Colony (Slides and Speaker's Notes)

   •  Maps of Falmouth  (Slides and Speaker's Notes)
   •  Highlights from Acquisitions 2021  (Slides and Speaker's Notes)

   •  Historic Sites on the Foreside  (Slides and Speaker's Notes)

   •  Proprietors Map of 1732  (Slides)

   •  Bucknam Tavern  (Slides)

   •  A Marriage Made in Boston (Slides)

   •  Tidewater Farm (Slides)

   •  Town History (Slides and Speaker's Notes)

   •  Annual Membership Meeting 2024 (Slides and Minutes) 

   •  Annual Membership Meeting 2023 (Slides and Minutes)

   •  Annual Membership Meeting 2022 (Slides and Minutes)

Retrospectives

   •  Remembering One Who Fell in the "Forgotten War"

   •  Remembering One Who “Gave the Last Full Measure of Devotion” 

   •  Remembering the Greatest Generation on Memorial Day

   •  Maine’s First Newspaper Tells Us About Life in Falmouth Two Centuries Ago

   •  Two Pictures Recall the Life of a Falmouth Schoolmaster

   •  Falmouth Hunkers Down in Response to Pandemic, Again

   •  Falmouth in 1820