The latest work on the Hand Tub House was to paint the freshly plastered walls and ceilings.
McKallagat Painting (Brian: 978-994-5238) did a great job even with the chilly temperatures (before the deep freeze).
Our next interior project will be focused on painting the trim.
Donations happily accepted.
Shop for everyone on your gift list this holiday at smile.amazon.com/ch/37-1566641 and Amazon donates to Rocks Village Memorial Association.
Vallant Plastering has been doing a super job refacing the inside of the Hand Tub House
Now that the roof has been repaired and the windows Glazed, with help from Methuen Festival of Trees, we have been able to plaster the stairway and second floor of the Hand Tub House.
The Methuen Festival of Trees holds a fabulous event each year. This year the dates are:
Check out their web page for more details.
Consider volunteering: It is a wonderful way to take part in the holiday season and preserving history.
The proceeds from the Festival of Trees provide funding to preserve the heritage and the monuments that make Methuen and the communities of the Merrimack Valley unique. We have been lucky to receive several grants towards preserving the Hand Tub House:
Foundation Repair, Trim Restoration, Window Restoration, and Plastering
Thank you Vallant Plastering and Festival of Trees
The Rocks Village historians are looking for descendants of families who lived here in earlier times. We would like to borrow any old photos, maps, deeds, stories, newspaper articles, or other documents that you might have in your family archives and that you would be willing to share with us. In addition, with your permission, a local photographer would like to capture your portrait for inclusion in an artist book to be published at a later date.
Contact Lydia@rocksvillage.org
Please join us at the Hand Tub House at 4:00 pm on Sunday May 7th for our Annual RVMA meeting.
Learn about:
Settees from 1895
Bylaws
Projects for FY 2017
Interested in being part of the Board of Directors, contact: cindy at Rocksvillage dot org.
For a great write up of our walking tour, please check out this blog.
by Alison Colby-Campbell
Discover the riverfront neighborhood of Rocks Village, once a bustling community of stores, taverns, and wharfs, settled in the late seventeenth century. Hear tales of merchants, shipbuilders, a purported witch, and more.
Explore local landmarks such as the Rocks Village Bridge and 1840 Hand Tub House (fire station), and learn the stories of those who lived, loved, and worked here.
Presented in partnership Historic New England is the oldest, largest, and most comprehensive regional heritage organization in the nation. HNE shares the region’s history through vast collections, publications, programs, historic proper- ties, archives, and family stories that document more than 400 years of life in New England.
$10
Registration recommended. Please call 617-994-5970 for more information or register online. Two times to chose from: 10:30 -11:30am or 1:00 – 2:00pm
The Rocks Village Memorial Association received a grant for 2017 from the Festival of Trees.
This money will be used to re plaster the interior that has water damage from when our roof leaked.
You will also see work being done on the exterior of the building this year as we will be re glazing the windows and repairing and painting the trim. Also with Festival of Trees money.
The Methuen Festival of Trees organization has invested over $1,500,000 in funds to preserve our area’s historic treasures.
Please join us for the next RVMA meeting scheduled for March 19th
Location: 28 River Road
Time: 4:00 – 5:30pm
Topics:
Toll House Historical Display
Memorial Day Brunch
Earth Day: April 22nd
Walking Tour: April 22nd
The RVMA donated a tree to the Methuen Festival of Trees this year with the team of Through the Ages. The tree included original art from Susan Bailey, Wimberley Burton, and Bill King. Dee Rowlands, Jennifer Rowland Clapp, Dee’s daughter, and Lydia Harris contributed decorations to the tree.
We would like to thank Home Depot for the donation of the tree and Historic New England for the beautiful books they donated to go along with the tree raffle.