Community outreach is important to TDHS. Until recently, that mission was primarily accomplished by having the public come down to visit the museum itself. But with limited hours of opening, few of the public had the opportunity to see what TDHS has to offer. Modern technology is changing all of that!
On the morning of January 24, 1925, Tavistock and area found itself in the path of a total solar eclipse. John Lemp Jr, local druggist and “astronomer”, was able to capture the event on film and in his store he sold postcards of the event.
The History of the Stone Pillars that were erected on Woodstock Street North to Recognize the 20th Anniversary of the Tavistock Horticultural Society in 1943