Community Events

Join us for this year's Annual Meeting on Sunday, September 21, 2025, at 2 pm. This very special program will feature a delicious lunch provided by one of Harford's most noted caterers, an opportunity to browse the ever-expanding museum collection, and the chance to experience a unique living history performance by historical interpreter Christine Potts […]

Visit the Hays House, the Historical Society’s Living History Museum. Tour the site with Society docents as they recreate the social and cultural aspects of daily life of rural gentry in the formative days of our county. Free, donations appreciated

Join talented storyteller Amy Rosenkrans as she recounts the story of notorious 1920s serial killer, Hattie Stone, a Havre de Grace resident with a penchant for murder. Learn the story of this nurse, midwife, Sunday School teacher who had a truly sinister secret life. Free, donations appreciated.

Ever wanted to experience a real-life ghost hunt? Research so far confirms that spirits are roaming the Hays House. You are invited to join Above and Below Paranormal Investigation’s team of professional paranormal investigators on Saturday, October 18th, 2025, at 7pm. Be a part of the search. Participants must be at least 18 years of […]

Winter is just around the corner! The family needs to prepare! Join people at the Hays House as they work to set aside the summer’s bounty to enjoy in the winter. Stir the kettle as we make apple butter! Listen to their conversation about the events of the times. 

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Visit the Hays House, the Historical Society’s Living History Museum. Tour the site with Society docents as they recreate the social and cultural aspects of daily life of rural gentry in the formative days of our county. Free, donations appreciated

Ever wanted to experience a real-life ghost hunt? Research so far confirms that spirits are roaming the Hays House. You are invited to join Above and Below Paranormal Investigation’s team of professional paranormal investigators on Saturday, January 17th, 2025, at 7pm. Be a part of the search. Participants must be at least 18 years of […]

The Historical Society is excited to announce the opening of a unique exhibit at the Society's museum, celebrating 400 years of life in Joppa. The land now known as Joppa provided an ideal location for Native Americans to hunt, fish, and cultivate crops. These same qualities brought colonists to the area. In 1661, John Taylor […]

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The Ma & Pa Railroad stretched between Baltimore at North Avenue & Howard Streets, on to Towson, and through Long Green Valley into Harford County. It ended at Market Street in York, Pennsylvania. Even by the day's standards, it passed through some of the East Coast's most wooded, curvaceous, and beautiful scenery. The Ma & […]

The museum will reopen on March 8 with the first in a series of programs on daily living in days gone by. The Hays House Museum will open with a unique Historic bedding display curated by the Historical Society of Harford County Textiles Department. Antique and vintage bedding evokes both a real and imagined connection […]