Suffield Historical Society Information

Built in 1764 by Dr. Alexander King, an influential figure in Suffield history, the museum's period rooms house an excellent collection of local furnishings. The gallery rooms contain a fine exhibit of local tobacco growing and cigar manufacturing history, as well as significant special collections of early flasks and bottles, embroidery samplers, Bennington pottery, Suffield postcards, and other local memorabilia. A barn at the museum houses a number of early carriages and sleighs and an expanding collection of the larger pieces used locally in growing and processing tobacco. The Society sponsors an annual spring bus trip to nearby places of historical interest and opens the King House Museum for a special holiday exhibit on the first weekend of December. The museum's Curator, Town Historian Lester Smith, assembles a monthly column in The Suffield Observer excerpting news items from "100 Years Ago in Suffield. (He can sometimes answer inquiries about local history, but genealogical questions are best addressed to the Kent Memorial Library, which offers an excellent historical and genealogical collection.)