Photo Gallery

The history of Smithfield is captured in a plethora of photographs housed at the Grove’s House, our home. We include some of these photographs for your enjoyment. We’ll add additional photos with time, so please check back regularly. If you have information about these photographs, or would like to send us scanned photos to include, please contact us.

Ariel view of Smithfield circa 1940s.

Winegardner Boat House, circa 1940s.

Dedication of the new Smithfield School; August 1940.

Henry and Ella Paine, owners of Paine’s Store. Ella was the Smithfield Postmaster from 1921 to 1932.

Flora Mosher and her father, Wehleck Mosher.

Flora Mosher Gift Shop.

Carpenter’s Tea Room on North Pond. This building became Clarence Carpenter’s home in the early 1930s.

Perkins Restaurant and Ice Cream Parlor. Bertrum and Jane Perkins circa 1950-60s.

Louise Holton 1989. Louise was Ray Grove’s daughter.

Miron Merrill standing beside the rusting first Smithfield School Bus. Merrill was also the school bus driver in Smithfield.

Richard Merry, Bev and Gerald Bulmer; 1989.

Merle Witham at the Witham Cemetery located on Horn Hill Road; 1989.

Leon Briggs lived on Sand Hill Road in one of Smithfield’s oldest homes.

North Pond Hotel, which burned down in 1913.

Bill and Elanor Hepburn in 1989. Elanor was a Smithfield school teacher.

The Gould Schoolhouse, sitting at its original location at the intersection of Route 8 and East Pond Road. The building was later moved to Emery Taylor’s property in the 1940s.

The Sellner Water Toboggan Chute, Sunset Camps, Smithfield