Description

This ornament commemorates the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Stafford County Historical Society.

In the summer of 1965, a small group of local residents met on the porch of Agnes Harrison’s old house, Clearview, in Falmouth to discuss the eminent destruction of a very old school building at the bottom of the hill below Belmont. That October, a handful of concerned citizens organized “Historic Falmouth Towne and Stafford County, Inc.” (HFTSCI) and held its first official meeting at the Falmouth Firehouse. While they were unable to save the little school, that event stirred an awareness of the rapid loss of Stafford’s old buildings and generated an interest in researching, preserving, and sharing the county’s rich history.

These ornaments are created annually and represent Stafford’s historically significant people, places and events. They are ~ 2.5 inch ovals and made of 24K gold-layered brass.