Fall 2025

Saturday October 4, 2025 – 8 AM – 2PM Flea Market at the Old Schoolhouse, 18 West Main St., Norton, MA: Our second of 2 Fall Flea Markets. If you would like to reserve a space at our flea market, please contact us at nortonhistoricalsociety @verizon.net or call 508-285- 7070 and leave a message. We charge a setup fee of $20 payable on the day of the yard sale.

Monday, October 13, 2025 – Closed for Columbus Day

Sunday, October 19, 2025 – 2 P.M. at the Old Schoolhouse, 18 West Main St., Norton, MA. “In League with the Devil: Witchcraft in Colonial America” presented by Professor DiGregiorio from Bridgewater State University. In Colonial America, belief in the devil and his influence through witchcraft led to trials and persecution with the Salem witch trias being a prime example of this era’s religious and societal anxieties. Colonial settlers, particularly Puritans, believed in the existence of the devil and his ability to influence human affairs, including witchcraft. Yet these events in Salem were not the only, nor the first, witchcraft panics in New England. This talk will tell the story of the Puritans, superstitions and the various witchcraft scares throughout the colonial period.

This program is funded in part by a grant from the Norton Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by Mass Cultural Council, a state agency

Monday, October 20, 2025 – Goat City Fundraiser 11:30 A.M. – 8:30 P.M. Present the below ticket to your server and 20% of your purchase will be donated to the Norton Historical Society. We will be raffling off a number of baskets including a lottery scratch ticket tree.

Sunday, November 16, 2025 – 2 P.M. at the Old Schoolhouse, 18 West Main St, Norton, MA – Strong Turtle, tribal historian for the Pokanoket Tribe/Pokanoket Nation will discuss the Tribe’s early Colonial contact, the Thanksgiving event, causes and events of King Philips’s War, Weetamoo, female Sachem, and Lockety Neck, an important local historical site. This should be a stimulating and thought provoking history presentation.

This program is funded in part by a grant from the Norton Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by Mass Cultural Council, a state agency