Canaan Historical Society

In 1834 – almost 20 years before the Emancipation Proclamation was signed -- a group of abolitionists from Canaan, New Hampshire, began a courageous and high-minded enterprise. They opened Noyes Academy, a school that would educate white and black scholars, side-by-side.

Donna Zani-Dunkerton of the Canaan Historical Society has a direct connection to the school: an ancestor of hers was one of its founders.