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Visit our gift shop and step back in time. We have Bedford memorabilia, books about Bedford and children’s gifts with a historic flavor.

Building Bedford: One Century at a Time - New Stories About an Old Village
A group of essays on Bedford history complete with full color, old and new photographs. Edited by Emily Zucker, former Curator of the BHS with essays by John Stockbridge, Town Historian, Richard Farrell, Chairman, Bedford Village Historic District Review Commission and Evelyne H. Ryan, Executive Director of the BHS, and modern photographs by Yan Koyfman, published by the Bedford Historical Society, 2008, hardcover, 80 pp. $60.00

Images of America - Bedford
A photo history of Bedford by Shirley Lindefjeld Bianco, former BHS President and John Stockbridge, Bedford Town Historian, includes over 180 images, published by Arcadia Publishing in 2003, perfect bound, 128 pp. $20.00

A Short Historical Tour of the Town of Bedford
A look back at Bedford’s history from before its founding in 1680 to the explanation of the Town Seal. Includes brief descriptions of historic landmarks, building and events in Bedford’s history. © 1965, second edition © 1971, paperbound, 36 pp. $5.00

Long Live the Bedford Oak
The history of Bedford’s most beloved tree by Hobart Lewis, the history of Bedford’s "most venerable citizen." © 1980 Paperbound, 8 pp. $3.00

The Burning of Bedford July 1779
An accounting of the Burning of Bedford as reported in contemporary documents and eyewitness accounts, by Dorothy Humphreys Hinitt and Frances Riker Duncombe, © 1974 The Bedford Historical Society, perfect-bound, 68 pp. $10.00

Pilgrims Progress - The Bedford Village Version
John Bunyan’s classic tale interpreted 1857-1878 by Sarah Raymond Travis in 24 Ink Drawings, published in 1965, paperbound, 26 pp. $3.00