YWCA NH in Partnership with Millyard Museum Proudly Presents

100+ Years of Social Justice and Action in The Queen City

Millyard Museum

200 Bedford Street

Manchester, NH 03101

Thanks to our sponsors LaBelle Winery and Amoskeag Beverages in partnership with Millyard Museum.

YWCA NH Timeline

Our mission-driven impact on the community for more than 100 years!

Founding year 1920

YWCA NH Founded

In the spring of 1920, one hundred working women met with other community women to discuss the possible organization of a YWCA and by September of that same year, the Manchester YWCA was born. The early focus behind its new existence was to provide housing, recreation, adult education and to help young, working women that came to work in the factories.

Parlor, 72 Concord St.

Basketball 1920

1928

Annette Perkins & Cornerstone

Original Executive Director for YWCA New Hampshire can be seen placing items into the time capsule in our current YWCA NH building. The cornerstone can be seen on the corner of Chestnut and Concord St.

Annette Perkins

Cornerstone

1920’s

Camp Watanahit

1920s Camp Watanahit on the shore of Lake Baboosick, a misspelling of the Abnaki word Papoosuck meaning twins, was the mainstay site of our girl’s camp featured in the photographs here.