The NFA’s 125th anniversary reunion will be held on Sept. 9 through 11 in Harwich and Chatham. Invitations will be mailed out in late June. You will be able to register for the weekend events through the mail or online. We hope you will be able to join us!
The NFA is grateful to voters in the Town of Chatham who approved the NFA’s $300,000 Community Preservation Act grant application in May. The grant will be used to restore the c. 1695 barn believed to have been built by William Nickerson’s son William. The barn will be restored using traditional techniques on the NFA …
The 20-by-30-foot barn is one of the oldest, if not the oldest barn in Chatham. Instead of allowing the barn to be lost to demolition, we are working to rescue, relocate and rebuild the barn on the NFA campus, where it will be used to host gatherings, meetings and educational programs. The lengthy process of …
In this video from May 2021, archaeologist Craig Chartier brings us up to date on the final season of the excavation of William and Anne’s c.1664 homestead and explains the next steps.
By D. Scott Nickerson, Past President, NFA The Nickerson Family Association has traditionally understood that our Orleans Road property in North Chatham is at or very near to the actual homesite of our forefather ancestor William Nickerson, an immigrant arriving in the Massachusetts colony in 1637 from Norwich England. William Smith’s century old History of …
