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Northshore October 2025
The story of the Wenham Museum begins with dolls. In 1922, doll collector Elizabeth Richards Horton heard that her relatives were planning to sell the family’s 17th-century Wenham home with the intention of turning it into a destination for tourists. Horton reached out to the planners and offered to give the new attraction the collection of more than 800 dolls she had been gathering for decades. They accepted, and the gift became the basis of the museum’s next 100 years as a beloved repository of local history and childhood fun. “Visiting the Wenham Museum has been a part of the fabric of the childhood experience here on the North
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