Finding Your Roots: Celebrating 250 Years in Milton, New Hampshire
An Old Home Day Event
Come celebrate Old Home Day in Milton, New Hampshire this year and celebrate the people, history, culture, and businesses that have shaped our town over the past 250 years! This is a genuine community-developed “Old Home Day” event set on the historic Jones and Plummer Homesteads which date back to the 1700s.
DATE: Saturday August 15, 2026
TIME: 10:00 to 4:00
COST: The event is free and open to the public!
The Farm Museum and the Milton Historical Society have collaborated with local businesses and organizations to make this a day of exploration and family fun!
- Come explore artifacts and pictures highlighting Milton history.
- Explore Indigenous Abenaki artifacts in the Northern Woodlands Traveling Museum with Paul Pouliot
- Listen to a lecture by author and scholar, Patrick Connelly, author of Rochester, New Hampshire. Learn how the old Indian trails are now major highways!
- Take a walk with forester Charlier Mereno and discover history in the Plummer Ridge hiking trails
- Join in family fun with old fashioned games!
- Honor Milton’s elders by sharing a conversation about their history in Milton
- Take a tractor ride to explore our fifty plus acre farm. Meet the sheep, cows, pigs, goats, rabbits, and bunnies, too!
- Listen to our storyteller in the ell of the barn as she reads Old Home Day by native New Hampshire author Donald C. Hall
- Live demonstrations: Blacksmith Shoppe, Canoe restoration, and more
- Community groups: TPPA, Milton Conservation Commission, Town government
- Visit the art and photography display depicting the last 250 years in Milton and Rochester
- Tour the historic Jones house and 1810 Tavern and discover how five generations of the family once lived.
- Special guided tours of the Plummer Homestead (first level only) by a Plummer descendent!
- Stop by the Country Store to purchase a souvenir of your day on the farm!
- 1800s music by Banjo player Bob Kilham
- Children’s pie eating contest at 2 p.m.
- Children’s sack races at noon
- Learn about Milton veterans who served in the Armed Services.
- Learn about Milton businesses and community services
- Visit local food trucks for a bite to eat!
This program is part of the New Hampshire Farm Museum’s 250th Celebration Series, paying tribute to our founding fathers and mothers as part of America’s 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.