The Carleton County Historical Society (CCHS) was established in 1960.
It maintains an extensive collection of historical artifacts and archival material. They maintain two historic buildings, the Old Carleton County Court House, 19 Court Street, Upper Woodstock and the Hon. Charles Connell House, 128 Connell Street, Woodstock, which doubles as the society's headquarters and as a museum.
Hours of Operation
Summer: Monday to Saturday: 8am-5pm Fall-Spring: by appointment with the society
External links
Carleton County Historical Society (http://www.rootsweb.com/~nbcchs/InformationServices.htm)
WILLIAM CARLETON was born in 1796, in the townland of Prillisk, parish of Clogher, and county of Tyrone.
Carleton, on leaving the north, made, as he says himself, a solemn resolution never to return unless with a name that should reflect honour upon himself and the place of his nativity.
Carleton's sketches of Irish peasant life and character unquestionably consists in this--that they are true, and so true to nature; but it is enhanced by a circumstance similar to that recently recorded and lamented by Lord Cockburn in reference to Scotland.
The county comprises 1,057 square miles of desert and irrigated land that rises from an elevation of 3,500 feet at the Rio Grande to 7,000 feet at the summits of the Franklin Mountains.
Its population of 3,845 in 1880 grew to 15,678 in 1890, to 24,886 in 1900, and to 101,877 in 1920.
Meanwhile, the county population increased to 194,968 by 1950, to 314,070 by 1969, to 359,291 in 1970, to 479,899 in 1980, and to an estimated 591,610 in 1992.
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